Global review of the effectiveness of renewable energy deployment with suggested factors.

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 M.Sc., Power Systems, Islamic Azad University Qazvin Branch, Qazvin, Iran

2 M.Sc., economic and social statistics, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract
Considering the increase in global temperature and its serious threats to the environment and humans and the increase in greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide, the need to develop renewable energy is still one of the main ways to solve this global problem. For this reason, the importance of the development of renewable energy and its deployment and the completion of the solutions introduced in the previous literature cause the examination of new proposals in this article. In this article, three factors are suggested for the effectiveness of the deployment of renewable energy under the title of tax laws, carbon dioxide emissions and factors driving climate change. This article has introduced the cross-sectional regression method of Paris Winston's time series with modified standard errors of panel data for analysis, for this purpose, 125 countries have been examined in a 20-year period (from 1372 to 1393). The results of this analysis show that the proposed factors can be effective in the development of renewable energy. In addition, the results show that the more countries tend to use fossil fuels, the less the development of renewable energy in them.

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Volume 12, Issue 2 - Serial Number 24
September 2025
Pages 41-50

  • Receive Date 05 December 2023
  • Revise Date 30 July 2024
  • Accept Date 08 August 2024