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Renewable energy 3 Location: Auditorium G Session Chair: Shefali Khanna, London School of Economics | |
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Worst-case local economic effects of wind power capacity Yonsei University Mirae, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) Wind power is a central element for climate change mitigation. However, local opposition jeopardizes its diffusion. The main argument is that wind power displaces traditional sectors and population without providing any local benefits. I test these hypotheses for a pioneer (wind deployment since the early 2000') but worst-case region (due to lack of local participation in the wind development process and foreign ownership of wind capacity). Using a difference-in-difference framework with municipal data of Galicia (Northwest Spain) for the period 1996-2019, I find that wind power increases local disposable income (high confidence) without affecting other sectors (low confidence). Wind power has not reversed the negative population trend in rural municipalities. | |