To Re-Explore the Causality between Barriers to Renewable Energy Development: A Case Study of Wind Energy

Abstract

Abstract:The development of wind energy in developing countries has its limitations. This study adapted quantitative approaches to explore the causality relationships among these barriers. It was found that different areas of obstacles did affect one another; by barrier inference we learned that a lack of national policy caused other disorders, and that the occurrence of these disorders eventually resulted either directly or indirectly in high investment costs. Thus, the question of how to effectively reduce the investment cost of wind energy development is the most important issue to developing countries. Furthermore, the results of this study clarified that wind intermittency would not be the main reason hindering short and mid-term wind power development. However, from a long-term perspective, the impact of intermittency still cannot be treated lightly, as it was found that for each standard deviation unit improvement of the intermittency, the investment cost-effectiveness improvement increased by 0.185 σ, which was 1.78 times higher than the impact from national policies. Therefore, aside from strengthening the national policies in establishing a suitable institutional framework, we recommend that policy-makers should also emphasize the establishment of an economic assessment of available sites, a detailed wind resource assessment and improved forecasting of technical applications.

Breaking barriers in deployment of renewable energy

“…Government policies are not aligned at national and state level, thus failing to attract energy sector investment (Nesamalar et al., 2017). Countries with excessively complicated administrative procedures have less penetration of renewable energy compared to countries with simple and straightforward procedures (Huang et al., 2013).…”

Exploring the Critical Barriers to the Implementation of Renewable Technologies in Existing University Buildings

“…The literature classifies the factors that influence RETs development and installation in various ways. Some classifications try to cover all types of RETs, while others focus on some type of energy and/or technology (solar, wind, photovoltaic, thermal or geothermal) or on a specific country or region [33][34][35][36][37][38][39].…”

Renewable energy barriers and coping strategies: Evidence from the Baltic States

“…Inadequate fiscal incentives are as well a critical problem that is hampering the penetration of RES (Browne, Poletti, & Young, ; Sun & Nie, ). The bureaucratic procedures in the deployment of renewable energy are considered the biggest barrier that is demotivating investments in RES projects (Huang, Lo, & Lin, ).…”

“…A great number of studies exist in the field of barriers of renewables (Byrnes, Brown, Foster, & Wagner, ; Huang et al, ; Karatayev, Hall, Kalyuzhnova, & Clarke, ; Malik et al, ; Nasirov et al, ; Raza et al, ; Seetharaman et al, ; Sovacool, ; Sovacool & Saunders, ; Stavytskyy, Kharlamova, Giedraitis, & Šumskis, ) and the policies and measures to promote renewables in various countries (Boie, Fernandes, Frías, & Klobasa, ; Cadoret & Padovano, ; Chen, Cheng, Vinko, & Song, ; Harrison, ; Kasperowicz, Pinczyński, & Khabdullin, ; Kilinc‐Ata, ; Nesta, Vona, & Nicolli, ; Papież, Śmiech, & Frodyma, ; Polzin, Migendt, Täube, & Von Flotow, ; Zhang, Li, Zhou, & Zhou, ). There are a limited number of studies that are dealing systematically with the analysis of barriers of renewables and policies and measures to overcome these barriers in specific sectors.…”