Journal
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
Volume 11, Issue 7, Pages 1498-1513Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2005.12.003
Keywords
evolutionary economics; solar PV; wind energy; lock-in; lock-out; renewable energy technologies; technology policy
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This paper applies an evolutionary economics framework to analyse the factors leading to lock-out of renewable energy technologies (RETs). The cases of wind and solar photovoltaics (PV) in Spain are empirically analysed. The paper shows that a wide array of interrrelated factors (technoeconomic characteristics of technology components, system-level infrastructure and institutional factors) can create both barriers to the wide diffusion of RETs and can also be drivers that foster an escape from a lock-in situation. Based on this analysis, the paper suggests several policy measures which may help to overcome the lock-out of promising renewable energy technologies. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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