Managing tradeoffs in green industrial policies: The role of renewable energy policy design
Managing tradeoffs in green industrial policies: The role of renewable energy policy design
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管理绿色产业政策的权衡:可再生能源政策设计的作用
DOI:
10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.05.005
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
6.9
通讯作者:
T. Schmidt
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文献类型:
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作者:
Tyeler Matsuo;T. Schmidt
Green industrial policies around renewable energy (RE) are growing increasingly prevalent in emerging economy contexts as a means to foster low-carbon industrialization pathways. However, policymakers often face a tradeoff in their policy designs. In this paper, we focus on the tradeoff between minimizing the cost of low-carbon energy generation to fuel traditional input-intensive industrialization strategies, and implementing potentially costly measures to build local industries around low-carbon energy technologies. Specifically, we utilize the cases of Mexico and South Africa to investigate how each country’s distinct prioritization of these two objectives led to a divergence of their RE auction designs and outcomes. Specifically, using data on the involvement of local and foreign actors in Mexican and South African RE projects, policy documents, and interviews with public and private stakeholders in the two countries, we show how each country’s policy design shaped RE market and bid price developments, and the formation of local RE value chains. We find that the prioritization of low-cost RE generation can result in a greater reliance on existing foreign value chains and capital, without building the local capabilities that could result in greater long-term benefits for the market. We further discuss the implications of our results for policymakers, focusing on providing recommendations for RE industrial policy design in general, and the calibration of local content incentives in particular.
影响因子:
3.8
作者:
A. Schaffrin;Sebastian Sewerin;Sibylle Seubert
通讯作者:
A. Schaffrin;Sebastian Sewerin;Sibylle Seubert
影响因子:
4.7
作者:
F. Kern;C. Kuzemko;C. Mitchell
通讯作者:
F. Kern;C. Kuzemko;C. Mitchell
影响因子:
4.2
作者:
Baker, Lucy;Newell, Peter;Phillips, Jon
通讯作者:
Phillips, Jon