Employment effects of solar PV industry in China: A spreadsheet-based analytical model

Employment effects of green energy policies

“…In Tunisia, government legislation to support renewable energy is expected to create 10,000 jobs, for the Czech Republic, additional jobs are estimated to exceed 14,000. A study from China uses a slightly different approach, finding positive gross employment effects from investment in the photovoltaic industry in the country, though this impact is expected to decline as the sector becomes more automatized [3]. Similarly, the number of jobs in low carbon environmental goods and services in Scotland is estimated to be sizable, with more than 75,000 jobs added in each year between 2004 and 2012, though employment in this area has been more volatile than aggregate employment [4].…”

Promoting Sustainable Development Goals by Optimizing City-Level Solar Photovoltaic Deployment in China

“…We followed the bottom-up estimation framework to quantify the environmental-resource-social impacts of PV installation, energy storage, and transmission for each city ( additional information is provided in the Supporting Information section S.3). We do not take the indirect impacts of the supply chain into account in our analysis, as they are not expected to significantly affect the results. ,− Moreover, the inclusion of indirect impacts could introduce additional uncertainties, especially considering the potential occurrence of indirect impacts outside the city, where tracing is challenging in the absence of reliable data. For energy storage and transmission, we consider only their direct employment impacts, as they do not have direct environmental emissions or water consumption impacts during the operational stage.…”

How to play the role of fiscal subsidies? Based on the research of photovoltaic industry in China——Based on SBM-DEA and FGLS methods

“…At the same time, fiscal compensation promotes technological innovation and market development, and promotes the formation of industrial clusters and the development of regional economy. In addition, fiscal compensation represents the government's recognition of the supported PV enterprises, which can serve as an incentive for the production and innovation benefits of these enterprises [ 43 ].…”