Faster Than You Think: Renewable Energy and Developing Countries

Arndt, Channing; Arent, Doug J.; Hartley, Faaiqa; Merven, Bruno; Mondal, Alam Hossain

doi:10.1146/annurev-resource-100518-093759

Title: Faster Than You Think: Renewable Energy and Developing Countries

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Since 2007, large and unexpected declines in generation costs for renewable energy systems, particularly solar but also wind, combined with policy measures designed to limit greenhouse gas emissions, have created a paradigm shift in energy systems. Variable renewable energy now dominates total investment in electricity power generation systems. This dominance of variable renewable energy in investment has thrust the systems integration task of matching electricity supply with demand to center stage, presenting new challenges for energy policy and planning as well as for the institutional organization of power systems. Despite these challenges, there is ample reason to believe that variable renewables will attain very high levels of penetration into energy systems, particularly in regions well endowed with solar and wind potential. Similar to their success with mobile phone telephony, many developing countries have a significant opportunity to leapfrog directly to more advanced energy technologies that are low cost, reliable, environmentally more benign, and well suited to serving dispersed rural populations.

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Arndt, Channing ^[1]; Arent, Doug J. ^[2]; Hartley, Faaiqa ^[3]; Merven, Bruno ^[3]; Mondal, Alam Hossain ^[4]

International Food Policy Research Inst. (IFPRI), Washington, D.C. (United States)
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Univ. of Cape Town, Cape Town (South Africa)
International Food Policy Research Inst. (IFPRI), Washington, D.C. (United States); Daffodil Intl. Univ., Dhaka (Bangladesh)

Publication Date:: Sat Oct 05 00:00:00 EDT 2019

Research Org.:: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)

OSTI Identifier:: 1573207

Report Number(s):: NREL/JA-6A70-75299
Journal ID: ISSN 1941-1340

Grant/Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Annual Review of Resource Economics

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 11; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1941-1340

Publisher:: Annual Reviews

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY; variable renewable energy; energy planning; development

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                    Arndt, Channing, Arent, Doug J., Hartley, Faaiqa, Merven, Bruno, and Mondal, Alam Hossain. Faster Than You Think: Renewable Energy and Developing Countries.  United States: N. p., 2019. 
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                    Arndt, Channing, Arent, Doug J., Hartley, Faaiqa, Merven, Bruno, and Mondal, Alam Hossain. Sat .  
"Faster Than You Think: Renewable Energy and Developing Countries".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-resource-100518-093759.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1573207.

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@article{osti_1573207,

  title        = {Faster Than You Think: Renewable Energy and Developing Countries},

  author       = {Arndt, Channing and Arent, Doug J. and Hartley, Faaiqa and Merven, Bruno and Mondal, Alam Hossain},

  abstractNote = {Since 2007, large and unexpected declines in generation costs for renewable energy systems, particularly solar but also wind, combined with policy measures designed to limit greenhouse gas emissions, have created a paradigm shift in energy systems. Variable renewable energy now dominates total investment in electricity power generation systems. This dominance of variable renewable energy in investment has thrust the systems integration task of matching electricity supply with demand to center stage, presenting new challenges for energy policy and planning as well as for the institutional organization of power systems. Despite these challenges, there is ample reason to believe that variable renewables will attain very high levels of penetration into energy systems, particularly in regions well endowed with solar and wind potential. Similar to their success with mobile phone telephony, many developing countries have a significant opportunity to leapfrog directly to more advanced energy technologies that are low cost, reliable, environmentally more benign, and well suited to serving dispersed rural populations.},

  doi          = {10.1146/annurev-resource-100518-093759},

  journal      = {Annual Review of Resource Economics},

  number       = 1,

  volume       = 11,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Sat Oct 05 00:00:00 EDT 2019},

  month        = {Sat Oct 05 00:00:00 EDT 2019}

}

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