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The Effectiveness of the Government Subsidies on the Photovoltaic Industry--Spatial Econometric Analysis Based on China’s Provincial Panel Data(2011-2018)

Version 1 : Received: 23 August 2020 / Approved: 24 August 2020 / Online: 24 August 2020 (08:36:01 CEST)

How to cite: Shao, X.; Fang, T. The Effectiveness of the Government Subsidies on the Photovoltaic Industry--Spatial Econometric Analysis Based on China’s Provincial Panel Data(2011-2018). Preprints 2020, 2020080515. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202008.0515.v1 Shao, X.; Fang, T. The Effectiveness of the Government Subsidies on the Photovoltaic Industry--Spatial Econometric Analysis Based on China’s Provincial Panel Data(2011-2018). Preprints 2020, 2020080515. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202008.0515.v1

Abstract

Energy resources are important sources of social and economic development, human survival and security. However, energy resources are objective and scarce, especially the fossil energy, such as coal, oil, natural gas, etc. Human survival environment is increasingly damaged, and the condition of energy is also gradually becoming deficient, so it is necessary to develop new energy resources to meet the increasing demand of material civilization. Solar energy can meet the needs of human development in the future as a kind of clean resource and it has been concerned by all countries in the world. We analyzed the effectiveness of subsidies to the PV industry of both the price and R&D by the spatial econometric model. In some region, the production capacity of photovoltaic industry has shown a significant spatial agglomeration situation in China since 2012. At the same time, benchmarking price and R&D subsidies played a positive incentive to the photovoltaic industry production capacity. It is a certain degree of inverse correlation between the scale of policy subsidies and the resource endowment of solar resources. Therefore, the countermeasures should be considered from the aspects of institutions, industry, technology and public financial policies.

Keywords

emerging energy; photovoltaic industry,; subsidies

Subject

Business, Economics and Management, Economics

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