Structural changes and trends in China's renewable electricity production in the policy evolution process

This study employs the econometrics test of endogenous structural breaks to separately investigate the changes in trends of the share of hydropower and non-hydro renewable power in electricity production for China using two separate sub-panels of data spanning from 1971 to 2015 and 1990–2015. To identify structural changes in each renewable power generation series, we apply the Bai and Perron procedure for determining structural breaks to...