Abstract
With the increasing population and developing technology, energy, which is an indispensable part of life in today's world, has a priority and important position for all countries. Energy is a strategic issue, especially for countries with insufficient resources, because these developing countries become heavily dependent on energy imports and their economies become fragile. Countries in this situation tend to use more renewable energy, thus reducing their energy dependency on the one hand, and trying to take steps towards sustainable development on the other hand. Within the scope of the study, it is investigated whether the renewable energy consumption is stable for the newly industrializing countries. For this purpose, unit root tests were applied to the renewable energy consumption data covering the years 1965-2019, taking into account the structural breaks based on the residual augmented least squares (RALS) technique. As a result of the analysis, in the light of the knowledge that RALS-based tests, which take into account the possibility of the non-normal distribution of residuals, give stronger results, it is seen that the renewable energy stationarity results differ according to the number and model of structural breaks used in newly industrialized countries. It has been concluded that the renewable energy consumption series of 8 countries industrialized for two structural breaks in both level and level and slope is stationary. This shows that the economies of the countries have started to focus on the use of renewable energy, which is less costly and does not cause environmental pollution, rather than fossil fuel consumption, and external shocks have a temporary effect.