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Improvements and Spatial Dependencies in Energy Transition Measures

Marta Ewa Kuc-Czarnecka, Magdalena Olczyk and Marek Zinecker
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Marta Ewa Kuc-Czarnecka: Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdańsk Univeristy of Technology, 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland
Magdalena Olczyk: Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdańsk Univeristy of Technology, 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland
Marek Zinecker: Faculty of Business and Management, Brno University of Technology, 61200 Brno, Czech Republic

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 13, 1-22

Abstract: This article aims to improve one of the newest energy transition measures—the World Economic Forum WEF Energy Transition Index (ETI) and find its driving forces. This paper proposes a new approach to correct the ETI structure, i.e., sensitivity analysis, which allows assessing the accuracy of variable weights. Moreover, the novelty of the paper is the use the spatial error models to estimate determinants of the energy transition on different continents. The results show that ETI is unbalanced and includes many variables of marginal importance for the shape of the final ranking. The variables with the highest weights in ETI did not turn out to be its most important determinants, which means that they differentiate the analysed countries well; nonetheless, they do not have sufficient properties of approximating the values of the ETI components. The most important components of ETI (with the highest information load) belong to the CO 2 emissions per capita, the innovative business environment, household electricity prices, or renewable capacity buildout. Moreover, we identified the clustering of both ETI and its two main pillars in Europe, which is not observed in America and Asia. The identified positive spatial effects showing that European countries need much deeper cooperation to reach a successful energy transition.

Keywords: energy transition index; energy transition; composite indicators; sensitivity analysis; spatial error model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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