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TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Volume 75, Issue 3, Pages 405-415Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2007.03.006
Keywords
experience curve; progress ratio; error propagation; wind energy; bio-ethanol; photovoltaics
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Progress ratios (PRs) derived from historical data in experience curves are used for forecasting development of many technologies as a means to model endogenous technical change in for instance climate-economy models. These forecasts are highly sensitive to uncertainties in the progress ratio. As a progress ratio is determined from fitting data, a coefficient of determination R-2 is frequently used to show the quality of the fit and accuracy of PR. Although this is instructive, we recommend using the error sigma(PR) in PR, which can be directly determined from fitting the data. In this paper we illustrate this approach for three renewable energy technologies, i.e., wind energy, bio-ethanol, and photovoltaics. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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