The Importance of Learning for Achieving the UK's Targets for Offshore Wind
使用多部门能源经济环境模型，评估英国海上风电成本下降的经济环境影响，发现要大幅增加装机容量，成本降幅需大于官方预期，且扩张取决于能源供应部门的价格敏感性和预期。
Using a purpose-built, multi-sectoral energy-economy-environmental model we evaluate the economic and environmental impact of a reduction in the levelized costs of offshore wind energy generation in the UK. Our modelling approach suggests that in order to significantly increase the offshore wind capacity in the UK the required fall in the generation cost should be larger than expected and certainly bigger than that implied by the most recent cost projections developed by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Potential expansion of the offshore wind sector in the UK crucially depends on the price sensitivity of the energy supply sector and on agent's expectations. Only in our more optimistic scenario do we reach DECC's ambitious challenge of 22 GW offshore wind deployment in 2030 through a constant learning rate alone.