Renewable energy investment and job creation; a cross-sectoral assessment for the Czech Republic with reference to EU benchmarks.

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15310%2F17%3A73581404" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15310/17:73581404 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/68145535:_____/17:00466537 RIV/47813059:19520/17:00010570

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032116309121" target="_blank" >http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032116309121</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2016.11.158" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.rser.2016.11.158</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Renewable energy investment and job creation; a cross-sectoral assessment for the Czech Republic with reference to EU benchmarks.

Original language description

The development of renewable energy sources has been primarily justified on the ground of environmental policies and energy security, but new jobs opportunities and establishment of new economy sectors may be equally important co-benefits from investments in this sector. The main goal of this paper is to assess the employment benefits of investments in renewable energy in the Czech Republic. We examine the level and rate of the development of the renewable energy sector in the Czech Republic in terms of (&apos;green‘) job creation for the period 2008–2013, in comparison to data from other EU countries, including Germany as a leading early investor in renewables. Whilst the deployment of renewable energy in the Czech Republic has succeeded to create a significant number of jobs (more than 20 000 employees in 2010), our analysis illustrates a strong dependency of job creation on the continuation of financial incentives. We also find that biomass and waste energy processing offer the highest employment per MWh, which benefits employment in (economically fragile) rural areas. We discuss the question of competitiveness of a country that was not amongst the early adopters of renewables, arguing that the technical skills of the labour force in the Czech Republic provide a potential for more sustained investments in the sector.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-04483S" target="_blank" >GA16-04483S: Exploring social-spatial diffusion of renewable energy projects in the Czech Republic: lessons for adaptive governance of energy transition</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

ISSN

1364-0321

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

69

Issue of the periodical within the volume

March

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

360-368

UT code for WoS article

000393016000031

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84996848282