Advanced Materials Research Vol. 827

Abstract: The energy structure is closely related to economic growth, it is an important index to measure the effect on the economy of energy. Grasp the change tendency of the energy structure and economic growth, it can provide theoretical basis for future structure optimization and the adjustment of industrial structure. This paper, based on information entropy theory, puts forward the concepts of energy structure entropy and industrial structure entropy, and combine with regression analysis method, establishes the correlation analysis model between the energy structure and economic growth, finally through the instance analysis to give the quantitative results for the adjustment of structure.

Abstract: High cost impedes large-scale deployment of photovoltaics (PV), and the technical innovation is one of most important factors of cost reduction, so how to accelerate the market pull for innovation has practical significance and theoretical value. This paper aims to analyze PV demand pull mechanism based on empirical evidence. According to the features of PV industry and technical innovation theories, make hypotheses of PV market pull and the relationship between diffusion rates and the market pull. Then propose testing method of the market pull and the coefficients assessing diffusion rates, and use historical data of twenty countries to conduct empirical studies. The testing results show that 70% of PV market in the twenty countries pulled technical innovation; at the initial stage of PV diffusion, the market pull was insignificant when the market kept at small scale and the diffusion rate can be indicated by the innovation coefficient; in the acceleration period, the market pull was insignificant when the market grew steeply and the rate can be indicated by the imitating coefficient. So in order to encourage demand pull, policy making is suggested to lead the market growth stable and sustained.