Publication: Combining Technology-Push and Demand-Pull Policies to Create More and Better Energy Jobs
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2022-09
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Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
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Nuñez-Jimenez, Alejandro, Christof Knoeri, Joern Hoppmann and Volker H. Hoffmann. “Combining Technology-Push and Demand-Pull Policies to Create More and Better Energy Jobs.” Policy Brief, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, September 15, 2022.
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Policymakers guiding their economies to a low-carbon, prosperous future must strike the right balance between technology-push and demand-pull. The rapid build-out of solar photovoltaics (PV) in recent years has revealed the benefits of generous demand-pull policies, but also their limits. Here, we show why combining robust demand-pull and technology-push policies results in more effective policy mixes that go beyond innovation and deployment to help competitive domestic industries create more and better jobs.