Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Bhuyan, Radhika
Author-Email: bhuyan@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT
Author-Name: Mytelka, Lynn K.
Author-Email: mytelka@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT
Title: Changing Configuration of Alternative Energy Systems
Abstract:Recent and rampant regulatory changes for sustainable development are 
	 seeking to transform current energy systems towards cleaner and greener 
	 forms of energy sources. In this scenario, alternative energy 
	 technologies are considered the building blocks towards this transformed 
	 energy system. This chapter will show how the alternative energy market 
	 since the 1970s changed, in response to external oil price shocks and to 
	 other selective pressures and institutions. It will observe that the 
	 configuration of the market has been changing since 1970s, in terms of 
	 firm-composition, size and types of technologies considered in the green 
	 energy mix. It will further provide three explanations explaining why 
	 there are changes between firms, policies and these energy technologies. 
	 These three processes are considered important in determining technological
	 innovation among firms in clean and green energy technologies.  
Classification-JEL: O19, O13, O33, N70, Q01, Q55
Keywords: Renewable Energy, New Technologies, Firm Competition, Technology Policy,
	 Energy Technologies
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2008
Number: 031
File-URL: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2008/wp2008-031.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2008031