Creative Destruction During Crises - An Opportunity for a Cleaner Energy Mix

By Pragyan Deb, Davide Furceri, Jonathan David Ostry, Nour Tawk

December 3, 2021

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Pragyan Deb, Davide Furceri, Jonathan David Ostry, and Nour Tawk. Creative Destruction During Crises - An Opportunity for a Cleaner Energy Mix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2021) accessed December 26, 2024

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Summary

Lockdowns resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic have reduced overall energy demand but electricity generation from renewable sources has been resilient. While this partly reflects the trend increase in renewables, the empirical analysis presented in this paper highlights that recessions result in a permanent, albeit small, increase in energy efficiency and in the share of renewables in total electricity. These effects are stronger in the case of advanced economies and when complemented with environment and energy policies—both market-based measures such as taxes on pollutants, trading schemes and feed-in-tariffs, as well as non-market measures such as emission and fuel standards and R&D investment and subsidies—to incentivize and hasten the transition towards renewable sources of energy.

Subject: Commodities, Economic growth, Economic recession, Electricity, Environment, Environmental policy, Non-renewable resources, Renewable energy

Keywords: Covid-19 lockdowns, Economic recession, Electricity, Electricity generation, Energy demand, Energy mix, Energy use, Environmental policy, Environmental protection stringency, Global, Impact of recession, Non-renewable resources, Recession, Recession result, Renewable energy, Renewables.

Publication Details

Pages:

49
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Working Paper No. 2021/284
Stock No:

WPIEA2021284
ISBN:

9781616357115
ISSN:

1018-5941

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