Faster than you think: Renewable energy and developing countries

Since 2007, large and unexpected declines in generation costs for renewable energy systems, particularly solar but also wind, combined with policy measures designed to limit greenhouse gas emissions, have created a paradigm shift in energy systems. Variable renewable energy now dominates total inves...

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Autores principales: Arndt, Channing, Arent, Doug, Hartley, Faaiqa, Merven, Bruno, Mondal, Md. Hossain Alam
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Annual Reviews 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110736
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author Arndt, Channing
Arent, Doug
Hartley, Faaiqa
Merven, Bruno
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description Since 2007, large and unexpected declines in generation costs for renewable energy systems, particularly solar but also wind, combined with policy measures designed to limit greenhouse gas emissions, have created a paradigm shift in energy systems. Variable renewable energy now dominates total investment in electricity power generation systems. This dominance of variable renewable energy in investment has thrust the systems integration task of matching electricity supply with demand to center stage, presenting new challenges for energy policy and planning as well as for the institutional organization of power systems. Despite these challenges, there is ample reason to believe that variable renewables will attain very high levels of penetration into energy systems, particularly in regions well endowed with solar and wind potential. Similar to their success with mobile phone telephony, many developing countries have a significant opportunity to leapfrog directly to more advanced energy technologies that are low cost, reliable, environmentally more benign, and well suited to serving dispersed rural populations.
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spelling CGSpace1107362025-12-08T10:11:39Z Faster than you think: Renewable energy and developing countries Arndt, Channing Arent, Doug Hartley, Faaiqa Merven, Bruno Mondal, Md. Hossain Alam development variable renewable energy energy planning electricity technology renewable energy wind power energy generation energy technology Since 2007, large and unexpected declines in generation costs for renewable energy systems, particularly solar but also wind, combined with policy measures designed to limit greenhouse gas emissions, have created a paradigm shift in energy systems. Variable renewable energy now dominates total investment in electricity power generation systems. This dominance of variable renewable energy in investment has thrust the systems integration task of matching electricity supply with demand to center stage, presenting new challenges for energy policy and planning as well as for the institutional organization of power systems. Despite these challenges, there is ample reason to believe that variable renewables will attain very high levels of penetration into energy systems, particularly in regions well endowed with solar and wind potential. Similar to their success with mobile phone telephony, many developing countries have a significant opportunity to leapfrog directly to more advanced energy technologies that are low cost, reliable, environmentally more benign, and well suited to serving dispersed rural populations. 2019-10-05 2021-01-07T05:52:39Z 2021-01-07T05:52:39Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110736 en https://doi.org/10.1007/s40518-018-0121-9 https://t20saudiarabia.org.sa/en/briefs/Pages/Policy-Brief.aspx?pb=TF10_PB14 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134668 Open Access Annual Reviews Arndt, Channing; Arent, Doug; Hartley, Faaiqa; Merven, Bruno; Mondal, Md. Hossain Alam. 2019. Faster than you think: Renewable energy and developing countries. Annual Review of Resource Economics. Annual Review of Resource Economics 11(October 2019). https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-resource-100518-093759
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Hartley, Faaiqa
Merven, Bruno
Mondal, Md. Hossain Alam
Faster than you think: Renewable energy and developing countries
title Faster than you think: Renewable energy and developing countries
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energy technology
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