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This study analyses the diffusion of renewable energy (RE) technologies. It analyses the transition dynamics as the … sector broadens its energy mix and changes its capital stock. This shift is found to be desirable from an environmental …-efficient. We focus on wind and solar power, and discuss their promoted deployment against the energy policy principles of the EU …
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renewable energy when they replace their existing heating system. To assess the impact of the renewable heating standard on the …, when we allow effects to vary across space or over time. While energy efficiency and renewable standards are often …
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good by means of a polluting technology which uses fossil energy. However, these firms can adopt clean technology which … uses renewable energy, having lower costs. Interestingly, opening markets to international competition increases the per …
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The divergence of unemployment rates between the United States and Europe coincided with a substantial acceleration in capital-embodied technical change in the late 1970s. Evidence suggests that European economies have lagged behind the United States in the adoption and usage of new...
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We examine how different renewable energy support policies affect innovation in solar and wind power technologies. The … patenting activity. The results show that, first, more intense portfolios of renewable energy support policies increase …
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cannot be neglected. Therefore, there may exist a policy mix that provides firms with the correct incentives to adopt energy … feedbacks on economic, energy and environmental variables. Using WARM, an econometric general equilibrium model for the European …
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emissions, giving rise to environmental externalities and network congestion costs. One particular concern is the rise in data … bottom-up, taking specific energy consumption (and trends) of data transmission networks, end-use devices, and data centers … into account. Using these scenarios, we examine in more detail the approximate energy-saving impact that regulatory …
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The decision of whether to release transgenic crops in the EU is one subject to flexibility, uncertainty, and irreversibility. We analyse the case of herbicide tolerant sugar beet and reassess whether the 1998 de facto moratorium of the EU on transgenic crops for sugar beet was correct from a...
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