Renewable Energy in Russia in the Midst of Turbulence: Focused on the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
Journal: RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
Year: 2025

This paper examines the development of renewable energy in Russia, with a focus on the concept of ecological modernization as an analytical framework with an aim to see the realities of green transition in the country that seems to have fallen behind other major countries in the dynamics of decarbonization. At the national level, Russia’s green transition is slow and sluggish in terms of the installation of variable renewable energy (VRE) generators, despite the fact that it has a considerable a