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Three essays on clean energy technologies and implications for US policy
Gagarin, Hannah
Gagarin, Hannah
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2022
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New and emerging technologies have shifted the current energy landscape, in the US and globally. While this can be attributed to numerous burgeoning technologies, such as hydraulic fracturing or solar energy, the following three chapters focus on renewable technologies. Chapter one examines the trade of intermediate goods with regards to two technologies vital to clean energy: Li-ion batteries and sintered NdFeB magnets. This work quantifies the amount batteries and magnets embedded in US imports of intermediate goods. This work identifies important trade partners along the supply chain, and potential vulnerabilities in the face of a supply shock. Further, this chapter provides a methodology for data collection that can enable future research in embedded trade.
The subject of chapter two is US wind energy development and economic impacts to local communities. This work has dual contributions; first, it assesses how an energy development impacts economic outcomes on a detailed level, due to its use of confidential, disaggregated data. This, to our knowledge, has not been done before in energy development literature, and we fee; this provides more precise estimates of spillovers. Second, we compare our results to that of aggregated data, to assess the potential biases that can occur from the use of differently aggregated data. Thus, our second contribution lies in that it informs future research regarding appropriate level of data aggregation for estimating economic outcomes.
Chapter three is an extension of chapter two in that it focuses on US wind energy development and economic outcomes. However, we approach this chapter from an energy justice perspective, estimating the economic impacts for those living below poverty, by gender. The contribution of this chapter is that addresses a gap in literature, which calls for the need for more empirical investigation of the gender-poverty relationship, within the framework of energy justice.
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