Pathways to Sustainable Deployment of Solar Photovoltaic Policies in 20 Leading Countries Using a Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Yujie Lu, Fangxin Yi, Shaocong Yu, Yangtian Feng and Yujuan Wang
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Yujie Lu: Department of Building Engineering, College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Fangxin Yi: Innovation Centre for Risk Governance, School of Social Development and Public Policy, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Shaocong Yu: College of Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China
Yangtian Feng: College of Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China
Yujuan Wang: Inner Knowing Coaching, Singapore 119077, Singapore

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 10, 1-16

Abstract: The paper investigates the pathways and combinations of factors for the sustainable development of solar photovoltaic policies using a QCA analysis of 20 leading countries. The main finding of this research is the causal relationship between the selected contributing factors and sustainability of the policy outcomes, which is interpreted as high/low GDP with a high democracy level, high fossil-fuel consumption and high LCOE being related to the deployment of market-based policies which include target, FiT and others (subsidies, tax, loans, TGC/RPS); while high/low GDP, low level of PV penetration, high RE investment, and high R&D expenditure contributes to more successful technological-R&D-based policies which include R&D funding and demonstration programs.

Keywords: pathways; combinations of the factors; solar photovoltaic policies; QCA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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