There is a risk that if a government adopts a R&D spending policy directed towards wind power technology crowding out of other technologies might occur due to fiscal constraints and changes in relative prices. The purpose of this paper is to provide a backward-looking analysis of how the...

Wind energy installed capacity has been increasing steadily all over the world and is expected to continue to do so in the future, following lowering costs of technology as well as increased renewable energy goals by governments. Nonetheless, public opposition has been increasing, and the...

An increasing number of studies suggest that the cumulative impacts of wind turbine encounters might have a negative impact on the acceptance of onshore wind power development. In many countries offshore wind resources are seen as the new wind energy resource, though the offshore cost of energy...

A portfolio of energy generators is likely to out-perform a single source in terms of a better trade-off between the level and stability of profits. We model the financial performance of portfolios of wind farms located around Great Britain in the early 2020s. We measure the expected annual...

Wind power is an important source of renewable energy. Beyond the environmental dimension, the wind energy may contribute to the local development. Due to its weather conditions, Brazil emerges as one of the leading countries in the generation of wind power. This study estimates the impact of...

Based on a Danish survey including respondents with on-shore viewshed experience and different degrees of off-shore viewshed experiences, it is estimated how the different types of wind power experience influence the preferences for extend wind power, biomass energy and solar energy should be...

The vast dissemination of renewable energy (RE) has been enhanced by government policy, with a commensurate increase in the trade of the components. Previous studies have analyzed the effect of policies and the knowledge stock of exporter countries on their export of RE components. However,...

In light of the Paris Agreement, many cities have undertaken initiatives to become climate-neutral, making decentralized urban energy production more relevant. This paper addresses the potential of urban wind energy production with small wind turbines, using Berlin as an example. Based on a...

This paper exploits the exogeneity of weather conditions to evaluate renewable energy (RE) subsidy programs in Germany and Spain in terms of their costs for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. We find that both the aggregate costs and the distribution of costs between energy producers and...

This report investigates the effect of increasing the number of wind turbine generators on wholesale spot prices in the Australian National Electricity Market’s (NEM) existing transmission grid from 2014 to 2025. This reports answers urgent questions concerning the capability of the existing...