Analysis of the Regional Efficiency of European Funds in Spain from the Perspective of Renewable Energy Production: The Regional Dimension

Paul Mugambi, Miguel Blanco, Daniel Ogachi, Marcos Ferasso and Lydia Bares
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Paul Mugambi: Doctoral School of International Relations and Political Science, Corvinus University of Budapest, 1093 Budapest, Hungary
Miguel Blanco: Department of General Economics, University of Cadiz, 11002 Cádiz, Spain
Daniel Ogachi: Doctoral School of Economics and Regional Sciences, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Science, 2100 Gödöllő, Hungary
Marcos Ferasso: Institute of Scientific Research and Graduate School, Universidad de Lima, Lima 15023, Peru
Lydia Bares: Department of General Economics, University of Cadiz, 11002 Cádiz, Spain

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 9, 1-16

Abstract: During the 2010–2020 period, the European Union (EU) launched a growth strategy based on three fundamental pillars: smart growth, sustainable growth, and inclusive growth. Aiming to finance the projects related to these growth pillars, the EU used mainly the Rural Development Funds, the Structural Funds, those derived from the R&D Framework Program, the Trans-European Networks, and the European Investment Bank. This research aimed to determine whether the Spanish regions maintain homogeneous efficiency levels by using these resources to improve the levels of environmental quality related to renewable energies. A methodology that is frequently used by researchers in efficiency analyses was chosen, the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The main findings revealed that the efficiency in the use of renewable energies is very uneven among the Spanish regions and these differences are maintained throughout the period analyzed. These results highlighted the need of changes regarding the proposed criteria for allocating European resources to finance the projects presented by each Spanish region.

Keywords: energy efficiency; environment; data envelope analysis; renewable energy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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