2
The Research Concept
2.1
The Purpose of Research
The proposed research has a combined descriptive and exploratory purpose. The
descriptive research covers the review of the renewable energy policy instruments
supporting the development of offshore wind, large onshore wind, and solar PV
projects. Feed-in tariffs policy instrument and its derivatives has been a very efficient way to develop renewable energy. However, role model countries in the
energy transition such as Germany are now reducing the extent of their support. The research work describes this phenomenon and its consequences for the
renewable energy project developers. The descriptive research also provides an
analysis of the renewable energy targets and policy instruments as well as the
hydrogen economy of five case studies belonging to the APAC markets.
The results of the descriptive research are supplemented by an exploratory
research consisting on assessing the opportunity for replacement of the fossil fuelbased hydrogen by the renewable hydrogen in the five targeted countries of the
APAC markets.
The result of the combined descriptive and exploratory research is used to test
the theory research claim: the renewable energy policy instruments have influence and impact on the decarbonisation of industry sectors using fossil fuel-based
hydrogen as feedstock.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this chapter
(https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-32642-5_2) contains supplementary material, which is
available to authorized users.
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH,
part of Springer Nature 2021
M. Jaunatre, Renewable Hydrogen, Business Analytics,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-32642-5_2
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The Research Concept
2.1
The Purpose of Research
The proposed research has a combined descriptive and exploratory purpose. The
descriptive research covers the review of the renewable energy policy instruments
supporting the development of offshore wind, large onshore wind, and solar PV
projects. Feed-in tariffs policy instrument and its derivatives has been a very efficient way to develop renewable energy. However, role model countries in the
energy transition such as Germany are now reducing the extent of their support. The research work describes this phenomenon and its consequences for the
renewable energy project developers. The descriptive research also provides an
analysis of the renewable energy targets and policy instruments as well as the
hydrogen economy of five case studies belonging to the APAC markets.
The results of the descriptive research are supplemented by an exploratory
research consisting on assessing the opportunity for replacement of the fossil fuelbased hydrogen by the renewable hydrogen in the five targeted countries of the
APAC markets.
The result of the combined descriptive and exploratory research is used to test
the theory research claim: the renewable energy policy instruments have influence and impact on the decarbonisation of industry sectors using fossil fuel-based
hydrogen as feedstock.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this chapter
(https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-32642-5_2) contains supplementary material, which is
available to authorized users.
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH,
part of Springer Nature 2021
M. Jaunatre, Renewable Hydrogen, Business Analytics,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-32642-5_2
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