Renewable Energy Consumption, Electrification, and Structural Transformation in Economic Development: A Systematic Literature Review
Keywords:
Renewable Energy, Development Economics, Regional EconomyAbstract
This study synthesizes the literature on renewable energy consumption, electrification, structural transformation, and economic development based on metadata from 44 articles and academic works. Using a metadata-based systematic literature review approach, the articles are classified into five clusters: the energy-growth nexus, energy transition and energy justice, electrification and development, growth and structural transformation, and the Indonesia/Kalimantan context concerning biomass, trade, and sectoral development. The findings indicate that the relationship between energy and growth is not uniform, but depends on the type of energy, the quality of electricity supply, energy costs, institutional capacity, sectoral economic structure, and the ability of regions to connect energy resources with productive value chains. Electrification contributes to welfare, employment, productivity, and industrialization when electricity access is accompanied by reliability and productive utilization. This review emphasizes the need to integrate macro-level energy-growth analysis, micro-level evidence on electrification, energy justice perspectives, structural transformation theory, and regional economic context to explain low-carbon development more comprehensively.
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