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Mineral resources for renewable energy: Optimal timing of energy production

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The production of energy from renewable sources is much more intensive in minerals than that from fossil resources. The scarcity of certain minerals limits the potential for substituting renewable energy for scarce fossil resources. However, minerals can be recycled,while fossil resources cannot. We develop an intertemporal model to study the dynamics of the optimal energy mix in the presence of mineral intensive renewable energy and fossil energy. We analyze energy production when both mineral and fossil resources are scarce,but minerals are recyclable. We show that the greater the recycling rate of minerals, the more the energy mix should rely on renewable energy, and the sooner should investment in renewable capacity take place. We confirm these results even in the presence of other better known factors that affect the optimal schedule of resource use: expected productivity growth in the renewable sector, imperfect substitution between the two sources of energy, convex extraction costs for mineral resources and pollution from the use of fossil resources.
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hal-02446805 , version 1 (21-01-2020)

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Adrien Fabre, Mouez Fodha, Francesco Ricci. Mineral resources for renewable energy: Optimal timing of energy production. Resource and Energy Economics, 2020, 59, ⟨10.1016/j.reseneeco.2019.101131⟩. ⟨hal-02446805⟩
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