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Analysis of the Regional Inequalities of Renewable Energy Resources using Gini's Coefficients

지니계수를 이용한 시군구별 신재생에너지 자원의 불균등성 분석

  • Lee, Jimin (Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University)
  • 이지민 (서울대학교 농업생명과학연구원)
  • Received : 2016.02.19
  • Accepted : 2016.05.27
  • Published : 2016.05.30
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Abstract

Most of countries are trying to increase the supply of renewable energy as the substitute of the fossil energy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, renewable energy sources account for only about 3.86% of the total Korea primary energy supply. To increase the rate of renewable energy in Korea's energy consumption, various policies for expanding the use of renewable energy should be applied. Also these policies should be consider renewable energy resources distribution and regional inequality. In this study, the potentials of photovoltaic, wind power and bioenergy from rice straw, livestock waste and food waste are calculated and the distribution characteristic and regional inequalities are analyzed using Gini's coefficient and Gini decomposition method. As the results, technical potentials of photovoltaic and wind power of city region(Gu) has more potential rate than theoretical potentials. Livestock waste has the most unequal distribution (Gini's coefficient: 0.617) among renewable resources.

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