scholarly journals Conclusions and Policy Implications

2021 ◽  
pp. 397-400
Author(s):  
Aya Kachi ◽  
Peter Hettich
Keyword(s):  
Energy Transition ◽  
Research Society ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Work Package ◽  
Energy Research ◽  
Conscious Decision ◽  
Energy Governance ◽  
Governance Challenges ◽  
Good Energy ◽  
Structural Principles

AbstractThe work presented in this volume is a compilation of research highlights that represent numerous studies carried out by researchers within the Energy Governance Work Package (WP4) of the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research, Society and Transition (SCCER CREST). As our Introduction has illustrated in detail, these researchers worked together under common scientific interests in providing recommendations to overcome governance challenges in the course of the energy transition in Switzerland. Despite the variety of disciplines involved in this group, the conscious decision not to over-precise the shared notion of governance has successfully guided this challenging but fruitful four-year collaboration. These findings should help identify basic designs and structural principles of good energy governance, i.e., governance that is more effective, efficient, and transparent. The conclusion chapter summarizes these guiding principles and further challenges that emerged from our research in the context of Swiss energy governance.

scholarly journals Socio-technical energy scenarios: state-of-the-art and CIB-based approaches

2020 ◽  
Vol 162 (4) ◽  
pp. 1723-1741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Weimer-Jehle ◽  
Stefan Vögele ◽  
Wolfgang Hauser ◽  
Hannah Kosow ◽  
Witold-Roger Poganietz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Conversion ◽  
Energy Analysis ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Climate Protection ◽  
Energy Research ◽  
Energy Scenario ◽  
Art Analysis ◽  
Framework Conditions

Abstract Energy conversion is a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and energy transition scenarios are a key tool for gaining a greater understanding of the possible pathways toward climate protection. There is consensus in energy research that political and societal framework conditions will play a pivotal role in shaping energy transitions. In energy scenario construction, this perspective is increasingly acknowledged through the approach of informing model-based energy analysis with storylines about societal futures, an exercise we call “socio-technical energy scenario construction” in this article. However, there is a dispute about how to construct the storylines in a traceable, consistent, comprehensive, and reproducible way. This study aims to support energy researchers considering the use of the concept of socio-technical scenarios in two ways: first, we provide a state-of-the-art analysis of socio-technical energy scenario construction by comparing 16 studies with respect to five categories. Second, we address the dispute regarding storyline construction in energy research and examine 13 reports using the Cross-Impact Balances method. We collated researcher statements on the strengths and challenges of this method and identified seven categories of promises and challenges each.

scholarly journals Da li nam treba više ambicije za tranziciju na obnovlјive izvore u Srbiji? Temelјi upravlјanja i planiranja energije

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Varvara Aleksić ◽  
◽  
Ilija Batas Bjelić ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Economic Market ◽  
Energy Governance ◽  
Balkan Countries ◽  
Energy Community

Renewable energy has been suggested as the primary approach for decarbonizing the energy system and decoupling energy consumption from greenhouse gas emissions, both in the energy literature and in practice. The European Union has acknowledged the challenge and put renewable energy transition high on the policy agenda with the latest ambition of being a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. On the other hand, Western Balkan countries are still dependent on fossil fuels as one of their primary energy mix sources. The pledge about the European future has mostly driven the renewable energy transition ambition in the Western Balkan countries, including Serbia. Moreover, signing the Energy Community Treaty provided institutional and legal tools to both Contracting Parties and the European Union to build the common energy market. These processes inspired many authors in the last two decades to analyse technical, economic, market and environmental aspects of renewables. However, the governance and planning, even though identified as challenging, have been side-lined from the analysis. This paper aims to overview the selected renewable energy transition literature and legislation to analyse the main legal and policy milestones reached so far, as well as ambition in Serbia. It also discusses the lessons learned from the related literature from energy governance and planning prism. To do so, it firstly provides a literature review of the main concepts of the renewable energy transition. Moreover, the historical analysis of renewable energy policy and legal developments in the European Union, the Energy Community and Serbia are in the second part's focus. Finally, the discussion part summarizes lessons learned from the literature for future energy governance and planning with the perspective of the energy planning process, policy evaluation, and education and administrative capacity. The article concludes by emphasizing the importance of taking the current literature findings as prospective steps to follow towards accelerated energy governance and planning.

scholarly journals Energy Cooperatives and Municipalities in Local Energy Governance Arrangements in Switzerland and Germany

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Schmid ◽  
Thomas Meister ◽  
Britta Klagge ◽  
Irmi Seidl
Keyword(s):  
Energy Policy ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Local Energy ◽  
Renewable Sources ◽  
Strong Linkage ◽  
Energy Governance ◽  
Citizen Initiatives ◽  
Decentralized Energy ◽  
Governance Arrangements

Participation of citizens in local energy decisions is increasingly recognized as helpful for a successful decentralized energy transition. In this article, we focus on energy cooperatives in which private individuals jointly develop facilities to generate energy from renewable sources, thus involving citizens both politically and economically. Focusing on Switzerland and Germany, we show that there is a strong linkage between such cooperatives and municipalities, characterized by collaboration and support, and that the cooperatives are well suited as collaborating partners. We also show that federalist structures are most suited for such local arrangements as municipalities must have leeway to support cooperatives in a targeted manner and to compensate for shortcomings in the energy policy of superordinate governmental levels. Based on these results, we suggest that local governments should be given sufficient financial capacities and autonomy to strengthen implementation of a decentralized energy transition that involves citizens. However, we also recognize that municipal structures alone are often insufficient and that superordinate policies, especially national subsidies, remain essential. Hence, policies at the municipal and national levels should take greater account of citizen initiatives, such as energy cooperatives, which exhibit various noncommodifiable advantages relevant to the energy transition.

scholarly journals Subnational governance for the low carbon energy transition: Mapping the UK’s ‘Energy Constitution’

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (7) ◽  
pp. 1176-1197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas L Muinzer ◽  
Geraint Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Energy Transition ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Geographic Context ◽  
Energy Governance ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Subnational Governance ◽  
Low Carbon Energy

The UK has a ‘national’ strategy to decarbonise its energy sector, yet the transfer of key responsibilities to its Devolved Administrations has meant that they control many of the powers that determine the rate and extent of the decarbonisation process. This reflects an asymmetrical distribution of legal responsibilities that has cast a complex range of powers ‘downward’ from the national sphere to subnational scales and which plays a crucial role in shaping the agency at different levels of the UK’s energy governance. This paper provides a detailed exploration of the UK’s ‘Energy Constitution’ as a means of examining the way in which the complex legal framework of devolution shapes the spatial organisation of the UK’s low carbon transition. Previous research on the low carbon transition has remained largely ‘lawless’ and as such has tended to overlook how the legal regimes governing energy both produce space and are shaped by its geographic context. The paper therefore develops a more nuanced understanding of the spatiality, territorialisation and scaling of UK energy governance to highlight a nexus of ambiguity and partial power allocation distributed across a plurality of overlapping ‘legal’ jurisdictions. This raises fundamental questions over how UK constitutional arrangements reify the territoriality of energy governance and structure the relationships between national and subnational multi-level decarbonisation processes.

scholarly journals Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels – an Evolving Research Field within AMPEA, a Joint Programme of the European Energy Research Alliance

Green ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Thapper ◽  
Stenbjörn Styring ◽  
Guido Saracco ◽  
A. William Rutherford ◽  
Bruno Robert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
Artificial Photosynthesis ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Solar Fuels ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Energy Research ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Artificial Photosynthetic ◽  
Research Alliance

AbstractOn the path to an energy transition away from fossil fuels to sustainable sources, the European Union is for the moment keeping pace with the objectives of the Strategic Energy Technology-Plan. For this trend to continue after 2020, scientific breakthroughs must be achieved. One main objective is to produce solar fuels from solar energy and water in direct processes to accomplish the efficient storage of solar energy in a chemical form. This is a grand scientific challenge. One important approach to achieve this goal is Artificial Photosynthesis. The European Energy Research Alliance has launched the Joint Programme “Advanced Materials & Processes for Energy Applications” (AMPEA) to foster the role of basic science in Future Emerging Technologies. European researchers in artificial photosynthesis recently met at an AMPEA organized workshop to define common research strategies and milestones for the future. Through this work artificial photosynthesis became the first energy research sub-field to be organised into what is designated “an Application” within AMPEA. The ambition is to drive and accelerate solar fuels research into a powerful European field – in a shorter time and with a broader scope than possible for individual or national initiatives. Within AMPEA the Application Artificial Photosynthesis is inclusive and intended to bring together all European scientists in relevant fields. The goal is to set up a thorough and systematic programme of directed research, which by 2020 will have advanced to a point where commercially viable artificial photosynthetic devices will be under development in partnership with industry.

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