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Renewable energy 2 Location: Auditorium N: Agnar Sandmo Session Chair: Selahattin Murat Sirin, KAPSARC | |
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Local Climate Politics: The Negative Effect of Green Party Vote Shares on Photovoltaic Capacities 1: Humboldt University Berlin; 2: Berlin School of Economics; 3: Aurora Energy Research As green parties put climate action at the core of their political program, it seems reasonable that they would facilitate more investment in renewables after obtaining a larger vote share in elections. We test this hypothesis by leveraging a unique context in Germany with subsequent municipal election dates between 2009 and 2011 and strong variation in electoral support for the green party during this time. In a triple difference-in-difference approach, we find that local elections indeed affect PV expansion. However, this effect is contrary to the common expectation negative. An increase in the local green party election share by one extra percentage point persistently leads to reduced PV capacities (highly significant), by about 0.54 kW per inhabitant in the municipality. These results are robust after geographical and city matching. We find indications of an adverse sentiment change as the main mechanism. | |