Do renewable energy and human capital facilitate the improvement of environmental quality in the United States? A new perspective on environmental issues with the load capacity factor
 
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Doç. Dr. Serhat ÇAMKAYA Kafkas Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Prof. Dr. Abdulkerim Karaaslan Atatürk Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Makale Türü Açık Erişim Özgün Makale (SCOPUS dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale)
Dergi Adı ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Dergi ISSN 0944-1344 Dergi Bilgileri (2024)
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SCI-Expanded
Makale Dili Türkçe Basım Tarihi 03-2024
Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa 31 / 11 / 17182–17205 DOI 10.1007/s11356-024-32331-z
Makale Linki http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-024-32331-z
UAK Araştırma Alanları
Enerji Ekonomisi Gelişme Ekonomisi
Özet
Recently, countries have been making intensive efforts to alleviate the burden on the environment and to make environmental conditions sustainable. In this context, our study aims to investigate the long-term impact of renewable energy consumption (REC) and human capital (HC) by considering the load capacity factor (LCF). We also investigate the long-term impact of economic growth (Y) and non-renewable energy consumption (NREC) on the LCF. In this context, we analyze annual data for the U.S. for the period 1965–2018 using the newly developed augmented ARDL (AARDL) approach. The long-term empirical results show the following. i) Increases in Y negatively affect LCF and deteriorate environmental quality. ii) Increases in NREC negatively affect LCF and accelerate the deterioration of environmental quality. iii) REC has no significant impact on environmental quality. iv) Increases in HC support the …
Anahtar Kelimeler
Environmental quality | Load capacity factor | Renewable energy | Human capital | Augmented ARDL