Overcoming the lock-out of renewable energy technologies in Spain: The cases of wind and solar electricity

Pablo del Río and Gregory Unruh

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2007, vol. 11, issue 7, 1498-1513

Abstract: This paper applies an evolutionary economics framework to analyse the factors leading to lock-out of renewable energy technologies (RETs). The cases of wind and solar photovoltaics (PV) in Spain are empirically analysed. The paper shows that a wide array of interrrelated factors (technoeconomic characteristics of technology components, system-level infrastructure and institutional factors) can create both barriers to the wide diffusion of RETs and can also be drivers that foster an escape from a lock-in situation. Based on this analysis, the paper suggests several policy measures which may help to overcome the lock-out of promising renewable energy technologies.

Keywords: Evolutionary; economics; Solar; PV; Wind; energy; Lock-in; Lock-out; Renewable; energy; technologies; Technology; policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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