Employment impact assessment of renewable energy targets for electricity generation by 2020—An IO LCA approach

Henriques, Carla; Coelho, Dulce; Cassidy, Natalie L.

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2016.05.013

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“…However, the data concerning the number of the employed and the number of working places in these sectors available in the literature on the subject are not coherent. It may be caused by application of various tools of estimation (Henriques, Coelho and Cassidy, 2016), or local and technological factors (Gostomczyk, 2015). The presented results were developed upon the average data concerning the employment and the quantity of produced primary energy.…”

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Employment Impacts of Renewable Energy in Ue

Gradziuk¹,

Gradziuk²

2018

Economic Sciences for Agribusiness and Rural Economy

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In the world renewable energy sector, including large hydropower, employed 10.3 million people, directly and indirectly, in 2017. This represents an increase of 5.3% over the number reported the previous year. The aim of the executed research is to determine the influence of harvesting renewable energy on the labour market in EU. Eurostat databases provided a source of empirical data concerning the amount of produced energy. The following sectors were considered: solid biofuels, biogas, liquid biofuels, geothermal, hydropower, municipal waste, solar photovoltaic, solar thermal, wind power and heat pumps. The research concerned 28 Member States of the EU between 2009 and 2016. Panel estimation was used as means of empirical indication of relations between the variables. The obtained models are adjusted to the empirical data, the rectified coefficient of determination equalled, depending on the sector, 0.828 (liquid biofuels) to 0.981 (solid biofuels). The analysed models show that throughout the examined period, the solar and wind power sectors were the ones that consumed the larger amount of work. As it was indicated above, these sectors are considered the most innovative and technologically advanced ones and thus, the employment rates seem to decreased in the shorter time.

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Employment Impacts of Renewable Energy in Ue

Gradziuk¹,

Gradziuk²

2018

Economic Sciences for Agribusiness and Rural Economy

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“…The E3S impact assessment of energy use of an economy in a resource-constrained world requires an understanding of the relationships between its economic, social, and energy-use elements [22]. I-O is an approach that allows capturing all the economy-wide interdependencies.…”

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“…These models became the focus of attention of researchers in the early seventies of the twentieth century with the first oil crises. In the framework of energy systems, I-O analysis has been applied in a multitude of contexts: to estimate China's energy disparities in energy consumption [19]; to provide primary energy forecasts in the Spanish economic system [20]; to analyse the employment impacts of EE retrofit investments [21] and renewable energy targets in Portugal [22]; to account for the economic impacts of EE and renewable energy in Germany [23]; to compute direct and indirect energy use and carbon emissions in the production phase of buildings in Sweden [24]. Over the last decades, several I-O models were also coupled with other mathematically based formulations in order to enhance the understanding and prediction of future impacts of energy use.…”

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Fostering investment on energy efficient appliances in India–A multi-perspective economic input-output lifecycle assessment

Singh

Henriques

Martins

2018

Energy

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Energy planning in many developing Asian countries has neglected the structure of energy demand and how it is likely to evolve as development takes its path. The limited availability of energy consumption data makes it very difficult to assess the energy savings potential at end-use level. Energy planning requires the formulation of a proper modelling framework that supports the definition of energy policies. From the different approaches available, Input -Output (I-O) models are particularly useful, since they allow considering different impacts that can be consistent with different energy policy options. This paper proposes a novel I-O modelling framework by introducing a bottom-up approach into an I-O model which is combined with technical data for the holistic assessment of energy efficient technologies in the residential sector, which can assist energy decision-makers of India on the appraisal of the future impacts of the current national energy saving targets. A large size platform of real data has also been gathered considering different data sources, namely the household building stock characterization, the number of operating days according to the climatic regions of India, the lifetime and the investment cost of equipment. Finally, the main results are discussed and future research opportunities are identified.

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“…Energy efficiency (e.g., thermal insulation of buildings) is also part of CE development since it reduces energy use. Energy efficiency measures are expected to have a positive effect on net employment effects because of their positive income effect: people can buy other goods and services because they spend less money on energy (Hergovich and Paprsek, 2015).…”

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Modelling Strategy and Net Employment Effects of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: A Meta-Regression

Stavropoulos

Burger

2019

SSRN Journal

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By conducting a meta-analysis of the empirical literature on the net employment effects of renewable energy, we explore the extent to which the reported net employment effects are driven by the applied methodology. We find that the reported conclusions on net employment effects are to a large extent driven by the methodology that is applied, where computable general equilibrium (CGE) and I/O methods that include induced effects and studies that consider only the near future in their study period (up to 2020) are generally less optimistic about net employment creation in the wake of the energy transition. In addition, we found that policy reports have a greater tendency to report a positive net employment effect than academic studies.

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Employment impact assessment of renewable energy targets for electricity generation by 2020—An IO LCA approach

Cited by 46 publications

References 5 publications

Employment Impacts of Renewable Energy in Ue

Employment Impacts of Renewable Energy in Ue

Fostering investment on energy efficient appliances in India–A multi-perspective economic input-output lifecycle assessment

Modelling Strategy and Net Employment Effects of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: A Meta-Regression

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