Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.13044/j.sdewes.2014.02.0014
Renewable Energy Investment in Emerging Markets: Evaluating Improvements to the Clean Development Mechanism
Amy Tang
; Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Department, Columbia University, New York, USA
John E. Taylor
; Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA
Sažetak
In the past, industrialized countries have invested in or financed numerous renewable energy projects in developing countries, primarily through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol. However, critics have pointed to its bureaucratic structure, problems with additionality and distorted credit prices as ill-equipped to streamline renewable energy investment. In this paper, we simulate the impact of policy on investment decisions on whether or not to invest in wind energy infrastructure in India, Brazil and China. Data from 2,578 past projects as well as literature on investor behaviour is used to inform the model structure and parameters. Our results show that the CDM acts differently in each country and reveal that while streamlining the approval process and reconsidering additionality can lead to non-trivial increase in total investment, stabilizing policy and decreasing investment risk will do the most to spur investment.
Ključne riječi
Agent-based modelling; Clean Development Mechanism; Energy finance; Renewable energy; Simulation; Wind power
Hrčak ID:
123254
URI
Datum izdavanja:
24.6.2014.
Posjeta: 1.025 *