 Renewable electricity consumption in the EU-27: Are cross-country differences diminishing?Adolfo Maza, Maria Hierro and Jose Villaverde () Renewable Energy, 2010, vol. 35, issue 9, 2094-2101 Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyse cross-country differences for shares of renewable electricity in the EU-27 for the period 1996–2005. We carry out a standard convergence analysis and then examine the evolution of the entire distribution, namely the external shape, intra-distributional dynamics and ergodic distribution. Our main results are as follows. First, there has been a clear convergence pattern for renewable electricity shares across countries. Second, the shape of the distribution has varied significantly over time, with more countries positioned around the mean in 2005 than in 1996. Third, the analysis shows that intra-distributional mobility has been relatively high, especially in those countries with the highest share in the initial year of our sample. Fourth, in spite of this, large cross-country differences will likely persist for RES-E shares in the hypothetical long-term equilibrium, which implies that a major impulse to national RES-E support policies will be necessary in the coming years to shorten this gap. Keywords: Density function; Highest density region; Renewable electricity; Violin plot; σ and β convergence (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:renene:v:35:y:2010:i:9:p:2094-2101 DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2010.02.012 Access Statistics for this article Renewable Energy is currently edited by Soteris A. Kalogirou and Paul Christodoulides More articles in Renewable Energy from Elsevier |
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