Accelerating the Energy Transition: The Renewable Energy Business Environment in the top-7 Emitting Countries

The current energy infrastructure, energy policy, and the business environment are designed to support the conventional power system. Hence, it is crucial to create a conducive business environment to accelerate the deployment and power generation through solar PV and wind power. This research has adapted the theory of the business environment...

Phasing out subsidies: Rendering the RES-e investments more self-sustained

The increasing shares of RES-e generation have resulted in unexpected but well-documented effects, such as the Merit Order Effect (MOE) on the power market. According to the MOE, the electricity prices decrease along with high penetrations of low variable cost technologies such as RES-e. Due to high investment costs the deployment of RES-e...