How public policy and public salience interact with the energy transition: The case of commercial-scale battery storage adoption

IF 6.1 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-09-30 DOI:10.1016/j.eist.2025.101056

Steffen Simon Bettin , Michael Thomas Dorsch

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Abstract

This article analyzes potential policy drivers affecting the adoption of commercial-scale battery storage (CSBS) technologies across high-income countries within the context of the energy transition from 1992-2018 with panel econometric methods. We first estimate a standard technology diffusion model and then investigate various factors that could “shift” the diffusion curves. The first main set of results suggests a positive relationship between public salience and CSBS adoption. The second set of results investigates how latent energy market reactions may influence CSBS adoption. Those results show, surprisingly, no relation or a weak negative relation between the structure of the energy mix and CSBS adoption. The third set of results investigates the effect of public policies: targeted vis-à-vis broad innovation policies. Here, the results indicate a relationship between higher RD&D expenditures for electricity storage and greater rates of CSBS adoption.

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公共政策和公众知名度如何与能源转型相互作用：以商业规模的电池存储采用为例

本文采用面板计量经济学方法，分析了在1992-2018年能源转型背景下，影响高收入国家采用商业规模电池储能（CSBS）技术的潜在政策驱动因素。我们首先估计了一个标准的技术扩散模型，然后研究了可能“移动”扩散曲线的各种因素。第一组主要结果表明，公众知名度与CSBS采用之间存在正相关关系。第二组结果调查了潜在能源市场反应如何影响CSBS的采用。这些结果表明，令人惊讶的是，能源结构与CSBS采用之间没有关系或微弱的负相关关系。第三组结果调查了公共政策的效果：目标vs -à-vis广泛的创新政策。在这里，结果表明电力存储的更高研发支出与更高的CSBS采用率之间存在关系。

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Energy-Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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13.60

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19.40%

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审稿时长

56 days

期刊介绍： Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions serves as a platform for reporting studies on innovations and socio-economic transitions aimed at fostering an environmentally sustainable economy, thereby addressing structural resource scarcity and environmental challenges, particularly those associated with fossil energy use and climate change. The journal focuses on various forms of innovation, including technological, organizational, economic, institutional, and political, as well as economy-wide and sectoral changes in areas such as energy, transport, agriculture, and water management. It endeavors to tackle complex questions concerning social, economic, behavioral-psychological, and political barriers and opportunities, along with their intricate interactions. With a multidisciplinary approach and methodological openness, the journal welcomes contributions from a wide array of disciplines within the social, environmental, and innovation sciences.