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...

Improving electricity access in low-income countries is a challenging problem because of the high costs of grid extension and low demand for grid electricity in rural areas. This study elucidates these constraints by analyzing poor households' willingness-to-pay for different types of...

Using detailed data originating from several hundred households of the German Residential Energy Survey (GRECS), this paper empirically investigates the returns on investment in home-equipped photovoltaics (PV) installations. We find that these returns were particularly high in the years 2009 to...