Non-conventional renewable energies in emerging economies: challenges, strategic responses and pathways for energy sector management

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🔬研究者:The paper offers a synthesized conceptual framework of institutional-financial-technological alignment that can inform future research on energy transition in emerging economies.

🏢実務担当者:Corporate sustainability teams can use the identified strategic responses—such as green finance instruments and public-private partnerships—to guide investment decisions in emerging markets.

🏛政策担当者:Policymakers should note the emphasis on regulatory stability, financial risk mitigation, and infrastructure integration as prerequisites for scaling NCRE in developing countries.

This study aims to analyze the multidimensional factors shaping the deployment of non-conventional renewable energy (NCRE) in emerging economies, focusing on how structural conditions, governance systems, financial mechanisms and technological pathways interact to influence transition outcomes. A systematic literature review of Web of Science publications (2001–2025) was conducted. This study combines bibliometric mapping, qualitative thematic synthesis and conceptual integration to identify cross-cutting patterns in barriers, strategic responses and forward-looking transition pathways. NCREs expansion is constrained less by technology maturity than by institutional and financial misalignment. Exchange-rate volatility, high capital costs, regulatory fragmentation, infrastructural deficits and socio-behavioral barriers limit adoption, while environmental pressures add further complexity. At the same time, system-level responses are emerging, including green-finance innovation, renewable-energy auctions, institutional decision-support tools, digital governance and participatory mechanisms. Future transitions are characterized by hybrid multi-vector systems, hydrogen value chains, circular-economy integration, AI-enabled planning and platform-based energy business models. The review highlights the need for future studies on compound-risk modeling, institutional–financial co-evolution, AI-based system optimization and the integration of behavioral and climate-resilience factors into energy planning. Effective transition strategies require coordinated institutional reform, regulatory stability, financial risk-mitigation tools and integrated infrastructure planning. This study contributes by advancing an institutional–financial–technological alignment perspective. Rather than treating renewable-energy deployment as a purely technological diffusion process, it conceptualizes transition outcomes as the result of dynamic interactions between governance systems, financial structures and technological pathways in emerging economies.

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