I am the guest editor for a special issue of Journal of Economic Surveys:
Call for Papers – The Economics of Wind Energy
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Recyclability and Life cycle considerations: Criticisms have been raised regarding the environmental impact of wind turbine manufacturing and disposal. Are these justified?
- End-of-life: How are wind turbines dealt with? How are decisions made?
- Levelized lifetime cost of electricity: How much room for improvement is there?
- Effects of renewable energy on electricity markets: What lies ahead?
- Spillovers along the supply chain forward and back: What is needed?
- Local economic impacts from onshore and offshore wind farms: Qui bono?
- Alternative technologies: Three blades and a horizontal axis are not obligatory
- Financing of wind energy: Opportunities for long term investors?
- Derivatives for wind energy: How to manage and package risk.
- Materials needed for wind energy (rare earths): What is needed?
- Cost of planning and not planning: Human decisions and social consequences
- Economics of a balanced grid: More long-term investment opportunities?
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