Journal
ENERGY POLICY
Volume 34, Issue 13, Pages 1645-1658Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2004.12.008
Keywords
learning by doing; renewable energy costs; research expenditures
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This paper analyzes the relationship between current renewable energy technology costs and cumulative production, research, development and demonstration expenditures, and other institutional influences. Combining the theoretical framework of 'learning by doing' and developments in 'learning by searching' with the fields of organizational learning and institutional economics offers a complete methodological framework to examine the underlying capital cost trajectory when developing electricity cost estimates used in energy policy planning models. Sensitivities of the learning rates for global wind and solar photovoltaic technologies to changes in the model parameters are tested. The implications of the results indicate that institutional policy instruments play an important role for these technologies to achieve cost reductions and further market adoption. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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