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How public policy and public salience interact with the energy transition:The case of commercial-scale battery storage adoption

Bettin, Steffen Simon
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Dorsch, Michael Thomas
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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
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58
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Bettin, Steffen Simon
Dorsch, Michael Thomas
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Energy storage
Energy system
Innovation policies
Public policy
Public salience
Technology diffusion
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
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This article analyzes potential policy drivers affecting the adoption of commercial-scale battery storage (CSBS) technologies across high-income countries within the context of the energy transition from 1992-2018 with panel econometric methods. We first estimate a standard technology diffusion model and then investigate various factors that could “shift” the diffusion curves. The first main set of results suggests a positive relationship between public salience and CSBS adoption. The second set of results investigates how latent energy market reactions may influence CSBS adoption. Those results show, surprisingly, no relation or a weak negative relation between the structure of the energy mix and CSBS adoption. The third set of results investigates the effect of public policies: targeted vis-à-vis broad innovation policies. Here, the results indicate a relationship between higher RD&D expenditures for electricity storage and greater rates of CSBS adoption.
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2026-03
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10.1016/j.eist.2025.101056
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