Where does employment due to investments in wind energy really occur?

Cazcarro, Ignacio ; Bielsa, Jorge (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Rodríguez-López, Guillermo (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; García, Sebastián

Resumen: Growing concern about climate change has led to a significant volume of planned investments in wind energy in the European Union. This work focuses on the employment effects associated with deploying this technology in a region (Aragon, Northeastern Spain) among the top in Spain in generation and even more in wind investments in the country. To this end, we have created a multi-regional input-output (MRIO) dataset and model in order to locate and explain the dynamics of those employment effects. The contribution to the existing literature consists of the fine-grained scale across time, spatial locations, and sectors of our model, dataset, and hence results. For greater robustness, we have analyzed the effects under different assumptions or scenarios depending on the temporal and conceptual scope and the geographical origin of the production of goods and services associated with the investments. The study estimates the employment supported specifying the economic sectors involved, the spatial locations where those jobs will most likely exist and how long they would last. With clear applicability to other contexts, the article enriches, the policy dilemmas in energy transition, and more specifically the currently hot social discussion on the local and regional effects, impacts, benefits, costs, etc. of renewable energies, which are implying social controversy.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1080/15567249.2024.2437177

Año: 2024

Publicado en: Energy Sources Part B-Economics Planning and Policy 19, 1 (2024), 2437177
ISSN: 1556-7249

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/S40-23R
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2022-140010OB-I00
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/UZ OTRI-2022-0242

Tipo y forma: Article (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Fund. Análisis Económico (Dpto. Análisis Económico)