The Impact of Renewable Electricity Output on Sustainability in the Context of Circular Economy. A Global Perspective

Lucio Laureti, Alberto Costantiello () and Angelo Leogrande

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: In this article we investigate the impact of “Renewable Electricity Output” on green economy in the context of circular economy for 193 countries in the period 2011-2020. We use data from World Bank ESG framework. We perform Panel Data with Fixed Effects, Panel Data with Random Effects, WLS, and Pooled OLS. Our results show that Renewable Electricity Output is positively associated, among others, to “Adjusted Savings-Net Forest Depletion” and “Renewable Energy Consumption” and negatively associated, among others, to “CO2 Emission” and “Cooling Degree Days”. Furthermore, we perform a cluster analysis implementing the k-Means algorithm optimized with the Elbow Method and we find the presence of 4 clusters. Finally, we confront seven different machine learning algorithms to predict the future level of “Renewable Electricity Output”. Our results show that Linear Regression is the best algorithm and that the future value of renewable electricity output is predicted to growth on average at a rate of 0.83% for the selected countries.

Keywords: Environmental Economics; General; Valuation of Environmental Effects; Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Recycling. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q50 Q51 Q52 Q53 Q54 Q55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-12-11
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