We study the determinants of households' choices of lighting fuels in Kenya, including the option of using solar home systems (SHSs). The paper adds new evidence on the factors that influence the introduction and adoption of decentralized and less carbon-intensive energy sources in developing...

Several top deals already closed, a still highly fragmented industry and strong pressure for further consolidation following the financial crisis - renewable energy certainly has become a red-hot topic in M&A. Surveying 220 companies in the solar photovoltaic, utility and financial sector as...

This paper applies an economic model of climate change that is based on endogenous substitution of energy resources to determine the effect of advances in renewable technology on aggregate and sectoral fossil fuel use and energy prices. It uses a Nordhaus type partial equilibrium model of the...

This article demonstrates that the large feed-in tariffs currently guaranteed for solar electricity in Germany constitute a subsidization regime that, if extended to 2020, threatens to reach a level comparable to that of German hard coal production, a notoriously outstanding example of misguided...

Better understanding the innovative process of renewable energy technologies is important for tackling climate change. Though concentrating solar power is receiving growing interest, innovation studies so far have explored innovative activity in solar technologies in general, ignoring the major...

Die Solarenergiebranche boomt, besonders in Deutschland. Dies ist vor allem auf die Subventionierung durch das Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz (EEG) zurückzuführen, das die heimische Nachfrage nach Solarenergie jenseits von Effizienzüberlegungen künstlich anheizt. Im Zuge der möglicherweise...

Technisch wäre beides möglich: nur Solarenergie und nur Kernenergie. Und beides wäre unsinnig. Nachdem uns in ferner Zukunft ohnehin nur diese zwei Energiequellen zur Verfügung stehen, sollten sie keine Alternative sein, sondern sich sinnvoll ergänzen.