Economic Performance in Green Energy Transition Towards the New Normal Framework: Drivers and Blockers of Green Energy Productivity

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🔬研究者:The paper provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of multiple determinants of green energy productivity, useful for further research on renewable energy performance indicators.

🏢実務担当者:Policymakers and energy companies can use the findings to prioritize green taxation, female workforce participation, and education as levers for improving green energy productivity.

🏛政策担当者:The results support the design of green tax policies and educational programs to accelerate the green transition, while cautioning against reliance on traditional energy sources for growth.

In the context of SDG 7 and SDG 13 of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, a new performance indicator has started to gain momentum in scientific research: renewable energy productivity. Understanding the drivers and the challenges of green energy productivity could help add on to the classical focus of renewable energy research on infrastructure, technical and economic feasibility, and environmental and social impacts, by considering the performance indicators in this field more. Only very few studies have explored the influencing factors of renewable energy productivity. Thus, this research aims to reveal the impact of social, economic, energy, and environmental variables on green energy productivity. The methodological approach involves bibliometric analyses of the literature on green energy productivity (GEP) and panel data regression models involving 16 independent variables. The main findings indicate positive effects of green taxes, female participation in the workforce, and highly educated people on GEP, pointing out the importance of green taxation, education, and gender equality in sustainable development. On the other hand, negative relationships of green energy productivity with economic growth, traditional energy variables, and air pollution were found for the European Union’s member states over 2007 and 2023. The results suggest that the analyzed European countries based their economic growth on traditional resources, with less importance given to renewable resources and green technologies, as the share of renewable resources of GDP was also negatively correlated. While private financial resources increase green energy productivity, questions about research and development investments, urbanization, and diversity index are still debatable.

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