Future Prospects for Energy Technologies: Insights from Expert Elicitations

Elena Verdolini, Laura Díaz Anadón, Erin Baker, Valentina Bosetti and Lara Aleluia Reis

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2018, vol. 12, issue 1, 133-153

Abstract: Expert elicitation is a structured approach for obtaining judgments from experts about items of interest to decision makers. This method has been increasingly applied in the energy domain to collect information on the future cost, technical performance, and associated uncertainty of specific energy technologies. This article has two main objectives: (1) to introduce the basics of expert elicitations, including their design and implementation, highlighting their advantages and disadvantages and their potential to inform policymaking and energy system decisions; and (2) to discuss and compare the results of a subset of the most recent expert elicitations on energy technologies, with a focus on future cost trajectories and implied cost reduction rates. We argue that the data on future energy costs provided by expert elicitations allows for more transparent and robust analyses that incorporate technical uncertainty, which can then be used to support the design and assessment of energy and climate change mitigation policies.

Keywords: energy technologies; R&D investments; expert elicitations; uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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