Journal
ENERGY STRATEGY REVIEWS
Volume 18, Issue -, Pages 121-126Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2017.09.014
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Renewable energy; Non-renewable energy; Strategy; ARDL
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- NECE-UBI, R&D unit - FCT- Portuguese Foundation for the Development of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education [UID/GES/04630/2013.2]
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This paper focuses on the relationship between economic activity, and renewable and non-renewable energy consumption for the set of countries with the largest usage of each energy source. The dominance of one type of energy source could raise an unintentional barrier to a strategy of energy mix diversification. A panel of 28 countries was studied, using annual data for the time span 1995-2013. The ARDL approach was used to capture the short- and long-run effects. The Driscoll-Kraay estimator was used to attain robust results given the presence of the phenomena of heteroscedasticity, contemporaneous correlation, first order autocorrelation and cross-sectional dependence. Results suggest that renewable energy has not contributed to economic growth, while non-renewable energy has contributed. This finding should be incorporated in the definition of energy strategies, specifically by making renewable energy compatible with economic growth. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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