Effectiveness of state incentives for promoting wind energy: A panel data examination

2015, Volume 9, Issue 3

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Frontiers in Energy >> 2015, Volume 9, Issue 3 doi: 10.1007/s11708-015-0364-8

Effectiveness of state incentives for promoting wind energy: A panel data examination

Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee 247667, India

Accepted： 2015-06-16 Available online：2015-09-11

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Over the last decade, India has started to concentrate earnestly on renewable energy. The Indian government, as well as different state governments, are adopting policy instruments such as feed in tariff, captive consumption, renewable purchase obligation and generation based incentive etc. aimed at renewable energy development. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of state level incentives for the development of wind energy in India. Fixed effect panel data modelling technique of econometric analysis is used to analyse the data of 26 Indian states in 11 years. The results show that feed in tariff and captive consumption are the significant predictors of wind energy development. However, renewable purchase obligation does not affect wind energy significantly.

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India ; wind energy development ; state incentives ; econometric analysis ; panel data

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