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DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/aa51da |
Promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency in Africa: a framework to evaluate employment generation and cost effectiveness | |
Cantore, Nicola1; Nussbaumer, Patrick1; Wei, Max2; Kammen, Daniel M.3,4 | |
2017-03-01 | |
发表期刊 | ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS |
ISSN | 1748-9326 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 12期号:3 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Austria; USA |
英文摘要 | The ongoing debate over the cost-effectiveness of renewable energy (RE) and energy efficiency (EE) deployment often hinges on the current cost of incumbent fossil-fuel technologies versus the long-term benefit of clean energy alternatives. This debate is often focused on mature or 'industrialized' economies and externalities such as job creation. In many ways, however, the situation in developing economies is at least as or even more interesting due to the generally faster current rate of economic growth and of infrastructure deployment. On the one hand, RE and EE could help decarbonize economies in developing countries, but on the other hand, higher upfront costs of RE and EE could hamper short-term growth. The methodology developed in this paper confirms the existence of this trade-off for some scenarios, yet at the same time provides considerable evidence about the positive impact of EE and RE from a job creation and employment perspective. By extending and adopting a methodology for Africa designed to calculate employment from electricity generation in the U.S., this study finds that energy savings and the conversion of the electricity supply mix to renewable energy generates employment compared to a reference scenario. It also concludes that the costs per additional job created tend to decrease with increasing levels of both EE adoption and RE shares. |
英文关键词 | renewable energy employment energy efficiency Africa |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000413802000001 |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/15008 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.UNIDO, Vienna, Austria; 2.Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA USA; 3.Univ Calif Berkeley, Energy & Resources Grp, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA; 4.Univ Calif Berkeley, Goldman Sch Publ, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Cantore, Nicola,Nussbaumer, Patrick,Wei, Max,et al. Promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency in Africa: a framework to evaluate employment generation and cost effectiveness[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2017,12(3). |
APA | Cantore, Nicola,Nussbaumer, Patrick,Wei, Max,&Kammen, Daniel M..(2017).Promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency in Africa: a framework to evaluate employment generation and cost effectiveness.ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS,12(3). |
MLA | Cantore, Nicola,et al."Promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency in Africa: a framework to evaluate employment generation and cost effectiveness".ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS 12.3(2017). |
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