Finding the Pattern of the Evaluation of Renewable Energy Development Policies Affecting Macroeconomics indicators in Electric Power Industry

The aim of the current research was to find a model to evaluate the development policies of renewable energies effective on macroeconomics indicators.

Design/ methodology/ approach:

 The research methodology was the use of a qualitative-quantitative exploratory combined method. The statistical community in the qualitative section, professors of higher education centers in the field of energy and economics and high, middle managers and senior experts of the country's electricity industry, and in the quantitative section, managers and deputies of the Ministry of Energy, Tavanir companies, and regional electricity of Tehran, Fars, Mazandaran and Satba which was 180 people. In the qualitative section, 20 experts were selected using the snowball sampling method, and in the quantitative section, 123 people were selected using the relative stratified sampling method using Cochran's formula. The data were analyzed in the qualitative section with Delphi technique and in the quantitative section with a 105-item questionnaire using SPSS and Smart PLS software. In order to determine the validity and reliability in the qualitative stage, the necessary checks including acceptability and ability were used, and in the quantitative stage, the validity of the questionnaires in form and content (CVR and CVI range for each of the items, respectively between 6. 0 to 0.1 and 0.85 to 1.0) and the structure was confirmed. The reliability and combined reliability of the components were estimated and confirmed between 0.847 and 0.951 and 0.759 and 0.931, respectively.

The findings showed that the evaluation model of effective renewable energy development policies has nine dimensions (objective evaluation, legal framework, compliance and compatibility, management requirements, policy environment management, process evaluation, policy evaluators, audit and the characteristics of the optimal method of evaluation) and 25 components.

Limitations & Consequences: 

According to the identification and testing of the dimensions and explanatory components of the evaluation of renewable energy development policies effective on macroeconomics indicators in the electricity industry, the generalization of the results to other industries is limited.

Practical Consequences: 

Providing a model for evaluating renewable energy development policies effective on macroeconomics indicators in the electricity industry

Innovation or value of the Article: 

The current research deals with one of the less noticed cases in the electricity industry and the subject of renewable energies and presents a model regarding it.