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Introduction to Renewable Energy Finance

In: RENEWABLE ENERGY FINANCE Powering the Future

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Following a steep fall in the oil price in the early 1980s, the renewable energy industry was nearly decimated. Significant investments by large oil companies such as Exxon in solar photovoltaics (PVs) were sold off or abandoned and interest in the sector stagnated for nearly two decades. At the end of the last century, only two countries, Japan and the US, were producers of solar PV panels and total investment in the renewable energy sector as a whole bordered on trivial…

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  • Charles Donovan, 2015. "Introduction to Renewable Energy Finance," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Charles W Donovan (ed.), RENEWABLE ENERGY FINANCE Powering the Future, chapter 1, pages 3-15, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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    1. Arslan Kulanov & Assiya Issakhova & Olga Koshkina & Parida Issakhova & Alma Karshalova, 2020. "Venture Financing and the Fuel and Energy Complex: Investing in Alternative Energy," International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Econjournals, vol. 10(5), pages 531-538.
    2. Oryani, Bahareh & Koo, Yoonmo & Rezania, Shahabaldin & Shafiee, Afsaneh, 2021. "Barriers to renewable energy technologies penetration: Perspective in Iran," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 174(C), pages 971-983.

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    Keywords

    Renewable Energy; Clean Energy Finance; Solar Energy Financing;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q2 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation
    • Q48 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Government Policy
    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products

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