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Renewable Energy: Social Acceptance, Markets and Innovation Policies

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 5209

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Caterina De Lucia

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Department of Economics, Management and Territory, University of Foggia, 71100 Foggia, Italy
Interests: social acceptance to renewable energy; energy policy; innovation policy; sustainable growth and development; sustainable agriculture; applied econometric analysis
Prof. Dr. Pasquale Pazienza

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Department of Economics, Management and Territory, University of Foggia, 71100 Foggia, Italy
Interests: environment-economy nexus; climate change and energy policy; sustainable growth and territorial development; tourism economics and policies
Dr. Diana Caporale

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Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Polytechnic University of Bari, 70124 Bari, Italy
Interests: social acceptance to renewable energy; energy policy; smart grid; CBA; focus groups analysis; choice experiments

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The latest trend in energy markets, resulting in energy price increases and biased consumer responses, is the result of a combination of demand and supply factors, the external shock of the pandemic and global climate change dynamics. These changes are affecting the adoption of renewable energy and investments in low-carbon energy sources and technologies. As a consequence, markets, societies and policy makers play a key role in reducing these current gaps and developing future insights into renewable energy transitions.

The international scientific community is being called to reflect upon the role of actual markets, the response of consumers and societies as a whole and innovation policy strategies to facilitate the adoption of renewable energy, boost investments in energy technology and advance public acceptance of green energy.

This Special Issue will present current and future research trends in renewable energy with a focus on social acceptance, markets and innovation policies. The results of theoretical and applied works and case studies reveal future directions for renewable energy and the growth of low-carbon energy societies.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): 

  • Demand and supply analysis of current renewable energy markets;
  • Future scenarios of renewable energy markets;
  • Geopolitics and renewable energy markets;
  • Current and future renewable energy technology adoption;
  • Innovation policies and strategies for renewable energy;
  • R&D for renewable energy;
  • Investments and green energy technology adoption;
  • The role of planning in renewable energy and societies;
  • Smart grid technologies and the urban environment;
  • Social acceptance of renewable energies;
  • Renewable energy technologies and the transformation of the global economy;
  • Education on the renewable energy transition;
  • Cryptocurrency adoption, energy prices and markets;
  • Renewable energy and the regional economy;
  • Agriculture and renewable energy.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Caterina De Lucia
Prof. Dr. Pasquale Pazienza
Dr. Diana Caporale
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • renewable energy
  • energy markets
  • social acceptance
  • innovation policy
  • energy transition
  • low-carbon economy

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When Will First-Price Work Well? The Impact of Anti-Corruption Rules on Photovoltaic Power Generation Procurement Auctions
by Peng Hao, Jun-Peng Guo, Eoghan O’Neill and Yong-Heng Shi
Sustainability 2023, 15(4), 3441; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043441 - 13 Feb 2023
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Along with the prevalence of photovoltaic (PV) procurement contracts, the corruption between auctioneers and potential electricity suppliers has attracted the attention of energy regulators. This study considers a corruption-proof environment wherein corruption is strictly suppressed. It elaborates a mechanism to explore the impact [...] Read more.
Along with the prevalence of photovoltaic (PV) procurement contracts, the corruption between auctioneers and potential electricity suppliers has attracted the attention of energy regulators. This study considers a corruption-proof environment wherein corruption is strictly suppressed. It elaborates a mechanism to explore the impact of corruption-proof measures on PV procurement auctions. It adopts incentive compatible constraints based on revelation principle to reflect PV firms’ optimal utilities. It employs first-price and first-score auctions and uses the Bayesian Nash equilibrium to provide a description of market outcomes. The results show that several strategies have different impacts on social welfare, PV firms’ utility, and the benefits of corruption. First, a first-price auction cannot act as a suitable policy because it may encourage corruption. Second, the first-score choice is desirable for social welfare to fit the forthcoming high-quality and low-price surroundings. Third, the first-score strategy maximizes PV firms’ utility and total income. The implications suggest that regulators ought not to employ first-price auctions in the future PV market from the perspective of social welfare. Another disadvantage of the first-price approach is that it enables the PV firm to maintain the utmost benefit from corruption. Full article
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A Contribution to Social Acceptance of PV in an Oil-Rich Country: Reflections on Governmental Organisations in Iran
by Leila Aghlimoghadam, Sadegh Salehi and Hans-Liudger Dienel
Sustainability 2022, 14(20), 13477; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142013477 - 19 Oct 2022
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To examine the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures regarding their position in the success of energy transition, attitudes towards these technologies have been increasingly recognised to play an important role. Notably, most of empirical literature has focused on the global northern countries, [...] Read more.
To examine the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures regarding their position in the success of energy transition, attitudes towards these technologies have been increasingly recognised to play an important role. Notably, most of empirical literature has focused on the global northern countries, with bottom-up transition governance structure. In this paper, we study attitudes towards photovoltaics in Iran, as a fossil fuel-rich country of the global south, with a top-down energy transition structure and committed to UNFCCC. We focused on governmental organisations as a key stakeholder group regarding their role in winning public acceptance. Aiming at finding determinants of attitudes towards PV, we conducted 15 qualitative interviews in 10 governmental organisations in Golestan, Guilan and Tehran. Taking an inductive approach to the data, we considered the acceptance and attitude theories as sensitising concepts to investigate common and specific issues in terms of social acceptance in Iran. We find accessing electricity and diversifying electricity resources via PV as the key technical drivers, and the upstream policies as the key political drivers towards PV adoption. Though the weak policies (design and implementation), privileging economic and technical obstacles, do hinder the PV adoption and shape negative attitudes toward it. We realise that the previous literature overlooked the fossil fuel-rich countries and their energy transition governance structure. Our findings imply that better-designed upstream policies with a more enabling policy framework are needed to motivate actions on the governmental organisation level. Full article
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Relational Marketing Promotes Sustainable Consumption Behavior in Renewable Energy Production
by Ebrahim Navid Sadjadi and Roemi Fernández
Sustainability 2023, 15(7), 5714; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15075714 - 24 Mar 2023
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Until recently, the prominent stage of electricity generation has been carried out by utility firms; however, the general landscape of power generation in the world is changing. The availability of low-cost photovoltaic panels is encouraging households to become local producers themselves and sell [...] Read more.
Until recently, the prominent stage of electricity generation has been carried out by utility firms; however, the general landscape of power generation in the world is changing. The availability of low-cost photovoltaic panels is encouraging households to become local producers themselves and sell energy to the grid at a micro-scale. Therefore, the development of renewable energy production is increasing the domain of the energy market from pure product delivery to a market of mixed services and goods delivery, with new players entering the value chain. For this reason, utility firms need to rethink their marketing activities, their interface and interaction with the consumer, the infrastructure they need for the flow of their production to the consumer, and the architecture of their value proposition. Faced with the growing market for renewable energy services, this study investigates how utility firms should target marketing activities to take advantage of business opportunities in the newer networks of competitive coalitions. The results of the study carried out suggest that firms need to strengthen their competitiveness and capability in internal marketing, their core competence in technological development and personnel management, and their external marketing promotions. By doing so, firms will be able to compete with established technologies and generate revenue by treating the disruptive and innovative technologies of the distributed generation as the gateway to the service market, and prospect the S-D-dominant logic of marketing in their activities. Moving beyond the traditional electricity delivery culture of utility firms could open up new opportunities for growth and expansion to attract a greater number of consumers, as is done today in similar high-tech industries. Full article
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