Enerji yoksulluğu ve yenilenebilir enerji kullanımının çevresel bozulmaya etkileri

In this article, the interaction between environmental degradation and economic growth, renewable energy consumption and energy poverty has been investigated. Data from 47 African countries covering the years 2000-2019 were used in the study. For environmental degradation CO2, for economic growth GDP per capita, for renewable energy consumption the rate of renewable energy in total final energy consumption, for energy poverty households' access to clean energy data for cooking and the rate of access to electrical energy were used as an indicator. In this study, it is aimed to examine the effects of renewable energy consumption rate and energy poverty on the environment. According to the results of the applied quantile regression analysis, while the increase in the use of renewable energy have an improving effect on the environmental quality, the economic growth and energy poverty variables leads to the deterioration of the environmental quality.