Employment impacts of energy: A survey and framework for analysis

Capros, Pantélis; Karadeloglou, Pavlos; Mentzas, Gregoris

doi:10.1016/0038-0121(92)90003-n

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“…It is also under consideration as a strategy to slow the growth of population in the largest metropolitan areas, especially in less-developed countries (Townroe, 1979;Cohen, 2004;Potts, 2010). The socio-economic planners need forecasts of employment creation (Capros et al, 1992). Therefore, we have used the information on technical available rice straw residues (see Section 3.2) to illustrate the total number of people who, directly and indirectly, benefit from straw-to-energy process chains in Figs.…”

Section: Employment Beneficiariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The indirect employment generation is generally higher than that obtained by analytical methods for direct job estimation (Llera Sastresa et al, 2010). The multipliers are relatively easy to estimate, but they provide limited information on timing and local distribution of impacts; however, they are appropriate to anticipate employment impact of energy projects (Capros et al, 1992).…”

Section: Employment Opportunity Creations E Direct Indirect and Unemmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Section: Employment Beneficiariesmentioning

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Section: Employment Opportunity Creations E Direct Indirect and Unemmentioning

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Environmental and socio-economic feasibility assessment of rice straw conversion to power and ethanol in Thailand

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“…Employment appears to be a much cited social impact in electricity generation impact assessment. Several examples of this concern may be found in the literature addressing wind [17], photovoltaic technology [18], or even the whole energy system as is the case of Capros [19].…”

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Sustainability assessment of electricity production using a logic models approach

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Araújo

2013

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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The topic Sustainable Development has brought a wide discussion across a number of sectors in our society, namely in Power Systems. Given the need to address other concerns than the economic ones, decision makers must take into account the rationale that lies beneath strategic choices, such as investing in generation technologies using renewable energy or rather doing business as usual and installing fossil fuel power plants. In this paper logic models were used as a decision-aid supporting tool, with the aim of contributing to the assessment of the possible impacts of different power plants in terms of sustainable development. The analyzed electricity generation technologies were grouped in thermal, renewable energy sources (RESs) and nuclear. The literature review fed the construction of three relational diagrams to allow the visualization of environmental, social and economic causes and effects of the three groups of technologies. Departing from these initial diagrams a set of interviews with experts was conducted to enrich and validate the logic models. The results of the literature review and of these interviews allowed to conclude that the use of RES has wider positive social impacts on the long run, despite their short-term higher costs compared to the traditional groups (nuclear and thermal). These logic models revealed to be a useful tool providing a valuable starting approach for an Impact Assessment of the ongoing change that power systems have been going through.

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“…Logo, consolidou-se no meio científico uma área destinada ao estudo econômico de políticas energéticas, inicialmente com foco preponderante sobre o emprego e, posteriormente, as demais variáveis econômicas e sobre os efeitos econômicos das restrições ambientais. Capros et al (1992) No setor elétrico, em particular, o que se observou foi que os estudos deram maior ênfase à análise dos mecanismos e formas de promoção das energias renováveis (ER). Isso se deu, sobretudo, em meados da década de 2000, época em que estas fontes ainda não tinham preços tão competitivos quanto as tradicionais e que, portanto, ainda havia a necessidade de subsídios para a sua promoção, em especial nos Estados Unidos e Europa.…”

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“…De acordo com os autores, 40% dos estudos SAM) e modelos de programação linear eram raramente utilizados (CAPROS; KARADELOGLOU; MENTZAS, 1992).Os autores também classificaram os trabalhos de acordo com o tipo de estudo, tipo de efeito estimado e os métodos utilizados (Tabela 2). De acordo comCapros et al (1992), os modelos de equilíbrio geral eram utilizados, até então, para avaliar as relações entre energia e crescimento econômico, sob uma estrutura de análise top-down.…”

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Impactos econômicos e regionais dos investimentos em geração de energia elétrica no Brasil

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Economic and regional impacts of investments in electricity generation in Brazil To comply with climate agreements, Brazil intends to raise the share of non-hydro renewables in electricity supply. According to the Brazilian Decennial Energy Plan (PDE 2026), the country will expand its installed capacity in the period 2017-2026 mostly by investments in gas, wind and solar sources. However, areas suitable for those projects are regionally concentrated and, in some cases, in the poorest regions such as the Northeast. Hence, the expansion of power supply also have economic and regional implications that could be enhanced according to the configuration of the electricity matrix. Despite that, there is still a gap in the literature regarding to this topic. We explore this analyzing the economic and regional impacts of the investments in electricity generation, under various policy scenarios provided by the PDE 2026. For that, we apply a regional recursive-dynamic CGE model for Brazil, TERM-BR10, specially enhanced to deal with electricity features. TERM-BR10 has eight electricity generation types (wind, solar, hydropower, biomass, gas, diesel and oil, coal and others) and allows substitution between them in a regional level. For simulation purposes, we assume the expansion of electricity matrix of Case 8 from PDE 2026 as our baseline. In fact, this expansion is the one with less policy interventions. As our policy scenarios we assume: Case 1 (reference scenario), Case 4 (scenario with reduction in cost of investment for solar) and Case 5 (no new hydro dams). Our results show that in comparison to the baseline a supply plan with more insertion of solar source, as Case 4, could increase the national GDP by 0.45% and by 2.15% in specific regions. In this case, the Northeast regions are the most benefited. The results also show that a scenario without new hydro dams does not imply in economic loss, in terms of national GDP or employment. This is quite relevant, specially when take into account that environmental concerns have been raising for hydro projects. Besides, we also came to the conclusion that policy guidelines have welfare and distributive benefits, with greater impact to poorest regions and low income households.

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Employment impacts of energy: A survey and framework for analysis

Cited by 6 publications

References 57 publications

Environmental and socio-economic feasibility assessment of rice straw conversion to power and ethanol in Thailand

Environmental and socio-economic feasibility assessment of rice straw conversion to power and ethanol in Thailand

Sustainability assessment of electricity production using a logic models approach

Impactos econômicos e regionais dos investimentos em geração de energia elétrica no Brasil

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