Renewable Technology Adoption Costs and Economic Growth

Bernardino Adao (), Borghan Nezami Narajabad and Ted Loch Temzelides

No 2022-045, Finance and Economics Discussion Series from Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)

Abstract: We develop a dynamic general equilibrium integrated assessment model that incorporates costs due to new technology adoption in renewable energy as well as externalities associated with carbon emissions and renewable technology spillovers. We use world economy data to calibrate our model and investigate the effects of the technology adoption channel on renewable energy adoption and on the optimal energy transition. Our calibrated model implies several interesting connections between technology adoption costs, the two externalities, policy, and welfare. We investigate the relative effectiveness of two policy instruments-Pigouvian carbon taxes and policies that internalize spillover effects-in isolation as well as in tandem. Our findings suggest that renewable technology adoption costs are of quantitative importance for the energy transition. We find that the two policy instruments are better thought of as complements rather than substitutes.

Keywords: Technology adoption; Scrapping; Energy transition; Climate; Dynamic taxation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H21 O14 O33 Q54 Q55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47 p.
Date: 2022-07-08
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DOI: 10.17016/FEDS.2022.045

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