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Do renewable energy technology innovations promote China's green productivity growth? Fresh evidence from partially linear functional-coefficient models

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Renewable energy technology innovation can benefit the environment by promoting green productivity, as proposed by existing theoretical studies. However, recent uneven developments of both environmental performance and renewable energy technology… Click to show full abstract

Renewable energy technology innovation can benefit the environment by promoting green productivity, as proposed by existing theoretical studies. However, recent uneven developments of both environmental performance and renewable energy technology among regions in China remind us to revisit the above theoretical link. In this paper, we relax the hypothesized homogeneity and linearity in traditional empirical models to investigate the effects of renewable energy technology innovation on China's green productivity. The results of the partially linear functional-coefficient models show that the effect of renewable energy technological innovation on green productivity is significant only when the relative income level of a province passes a critical turning point. Beyond the turning point, such an effect increases with the growth of relative income levels. Finally, we provide provincial specific policy implications based on the estimated nonparametric relationship between renewable energy technology innovation and green productivity.

Keywords: renewable energy; green productivity; energy technology; energy

Journal Title: Energy Economics
Year Published: 2020

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