This paper investigates the impacts of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on economic growth employing a global panel data of 174 economies including the subsamples of developed and developing countries over the time 1980-2019. The renewable energy sources are disaggregated according...

Study assesses the feasibility of the Hwange-Lupane regions of Zimbabwe to host a large-scale Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) facility. The study performed a techno-economic analysis to meet the objectives of the study. However, considering that CSP technologies are currently costly, errors in...

Photovoltaic or solar energy is globally promoted as a major source of renewable energy. Although previous studies have discussed the use of price incentives to regulate the use of solar panels, not much is known about the role of land zoning policies. The development of solar panels is...

This study analyzes the impact of introducing solar power generation on wholesale electricity prices by conducting a quantile regression. We use electricity prices, electricity demand, and solar power generation in the Kyushu area of Japan from April 2016 to March 2020, where solar power...

Individual demand for emerging technologies can be influenced by the demand of other individuals within defined peer groups. These so-called peer effects have been demonstrated in emerging clean energy technologies such as rooftop solar. To date, peer effects have disproportionately driven solar...

In recent years, India has experienced a sharp increase in energy demand as a result of economic growth, increasing prosperity, rising per capita energy consumption and widening access to energy. The sole reliance on conventional sources of energy puts heavy burden on the limited financial...

We study the spatial misallocation resulting from subsidies for residential solar panels in the US and quantify the associated environmental costs. We build a structural model of solar panel demand and electricity production across the country and estimate the model by combining 1) remotely...

Electrification of heating, particularly with highly efficient heat pumps, is increasingly viewed as essential for reaching the targets of the Paris Climate Agreement. In China, rural heating has long represented a major contributor to local air pollution, poor indoor air quality, and...

Micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are the engines that drive economic growth in Nigeria, but it has been hampered by harsh macro-environments such as lack of access to finance and inadequate power supply. This study investigates the factors that influence the solar technology adoption...

Solar adoption exploded until 2015 in Bangladesh, setting a precedent for electrifying previously unconnected areas worldwide. This study tries to measure the welfare effects of solar adoption using the three rounds of the Bangladesh Integrated Household Surveys. We applied both ordinary least...

We analyze the determinants of solar panel adoption, focusing on small and medium-sized commercial and service firms. We use monthly billing data that is matched with data from the ENCENRE-2019 –a novel survey that gathers data on electricity consumption, stock of electric equipment, and...

Für eine klimaneutrale Energieversorgung muss Deutschland Technologien und Infrastrukturen ausbauen: Es braucht mehr erneuerbare Energien, Wärmepumpen, Elektromobilität, Strom- und Wasserstoffnetze. Um Klimaneutralität zu erreichen, wird das allein aber nicht mehr ausreichen. Wie Deutschland...

This paper investigates a newly-found solar term anomaly (effect) in China Shanghai Index as a supplementary to the existing literature of traditional calender effects. Based on a regression framework, the paper analyzes the solar term effect from multiple aspects: inter-solar-term analysis,...

The report uses a methodological approach founded by W. S. Jevons and A. L. Chizhevsky. The years of solar cycles were numbered according to the order established in the astrophysics of the Sun, grouped and compared with the arithmetic averages of the effective rates for US federal funds....

The adoption of renewable energy technology has received significant government support. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the effectiveness of subsidies that are used to promote the adoption of such technologies. This paper exploits a natural experimental setting, in which a solar...

This paper investigates the distributional welfare effects of the trade tariffs initiated by the U.S. government against Chinese solar manufacturers between 2012 and 2018. We estimate a structural econometric model incorporating the vertical structure between upstream solar manufacturers and...

This study investigated the crisis of energy from which Gaza has been suffering over the past years. It ventured to highlight the growing needs for energy and the urging need to use renewable and sustainable sources of energy such as solar thermal energy. Much specifically, it gave much...

Photovoltaic or solar energy is globally promoted as a major source of renewable energy. Although previous studies have discussed the use of price incentives to regulate the use of solar panels, not much is known about the role of land zoning policies. The development of solar panels is highly...

Private households adopting solar photovoltaic panels can reduce their average electricity unit costs either by feeding the self-generated amount of electricity into the grid or by self-consuming it, or a combination of the two. Due to the achievable cost savings on the electricity bill and...

This paper develops on the possible ramifications of M&A activity in solar farms. A theoretical model explores two possible mechanisms of M&A activity in solar assets: disposal of assets whilst in financial distress, or, alternatively, normal market behaviour as regards essentially marketable,...

The Dish Stirling technology offers high efficiencies and holds potential as a renewable energy solution for remote areas in the great south where delivering power to consumers is challenging. This study simulated a 100 kW Dish Stirling system in five locations to assess its implementation as an...

We study the spatial misallocation resulting from subsidies for residential solar panels in the US and quantify the associated environmental costs. We build a structural model of solar panel demand and electricity production across the country and estimate the model by combining 1) remotely...

This study develops a theoretical framework that differentiates the shares of electricity generation between two types of renewables, solar and wind, and evaluates the impacts of technology-neutral and technology-specific renewable energy policies on state-level solar and wind deployments. Our...