Employment impacts of solar energy in Turkey
Müjgan Çetin and
Nilüfer Eğrican
Energy Policy, 2011, vol. 39, issue 11, 7184-7190
Abstract:
Solar energy is considered a key source for the future, not only for Turkey, also for all of the world. Therefore the development and usage of solar energy technologies are increasingly becoming vital for sustainable economic development. The main objective of this study is investigating the employment effects of solar energy industry in Turkey. Some independent reports and studies, which analyze the economic and employment impacts of solar energy industry in the world have been reviewed. A wide range of methods have been used in those studies in order to calculate and to predict the employment effects. Using the capacity targets of the photovoltaic (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP) plants in the solar Roadmap of Turkey, the prediction of the direct and indirect employment impacts to Turkey's economy is possible. As a result, solar energy in Turkey would be the primary source of energy demand and would have a big employment effects on the economics. That can only be achieved with the support of governmental feed-in tariff policies of solar energy and by increasing research-development funds.
Keywords: Solar energy; Employment impacts; Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.08.039
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