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| DOI | 10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111912 |
| Wind turbine cost reduction: A detailed bottom-up analysis of innovation drivers | |
| Elia A.; Taylor M.; Ó Gallachóir B.; Rogan F. | |
| 发表日期 | 2020 |
| ISSN | 03014215 |
| 卷号 | 147 |
| 英文摘要 | Wind energy technologies have seen a rapid decline in costs in the last two decades, but the drivers for these cost reductions are poorly understood. This paper addresses this knowledge gap by quantitatively investigating the drivers behind the cost reductions of onshore wind turbines between 2005 and 2017. Starting from a bottom-up cost model, the paper advances the methodology by identifying the techno-economic variables responsible for cost reductions of individual components (in $/kW) and linking them to drivers, specifically: learning by-deployment, learning-by-researching, supply-chain dynamics, and market dynamics. The analysis finds that changes in materials (copper, fiberglass, and iron), labour (employee productivity), legal and financial costs contributed over 30% to the cost reduction of wind turbine prices over the period 2005–2017. Moreover, learning-by-deployment was the most important innovation driver, being responsible for half of the cost reduction. The findings point to the importance of policies tailored to technology's stage of development. For onshore wind energy, which entered a mature phase in the period covered by this analysis, policy support for the needs of a growing industry such as stable support schemes together with appropriate regulatory and investment environments were more important than direct policy support for R&D which played a more important role in earlier periods. © 2020 The Authors |
| 关键词 | Bottom-up cost modelInnovation driversOnshore wind technologyTechnology innovationTechnology learning |
| 英文关键词 | Cost benefit analysis; Investments; Supply chains; Wind power; Wind turbines; Bottom-up analysis; Employee productivity; Financial costs; Individual components; Onshore wind turbine; Supply chain dynamics; Techno-economics; Wind energy technology; Cost reduction; bottom-up approach; cost analysis; innovation; learning; quantitative analysis; supply chain management; technology adoption; wind turbine |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 来源期刊 | Energy Policy
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/204642 |
| 作者单位 | Energy and Policy Modelling Group, MaREI Centre, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Lee Road, Cork, Ireland; IRENA Innovation and Technology Centre, Robert-Schuman-Platz 3, Bonn, Germany; School of Engineering, University College Cork, College Road, Cork, Ireland |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Elia A.,Taylor M.,Ó Gallachóir B.,et al. Wind turbine cost reduction: A detailed bottom-up analysis of innovation drivers[J],2020,147. |
| APA | Elia A.,Taylor M.,Ó Gallachóir B.,&Rogan F..(2020).Wind turbine cost reduction: A detailed bottom-up analysis of innovation drivers.Energy Policy,147. |
| MLA | Elia A.,et al."Wind turbine cost reduction: A detailed bottom-up analysis of innovation drivers".Energy Policy 147(2020). |
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