The politics of low-carbon innovation: Implementing the European Union’s strategic energy technology plan

With the prominence of energy crisis and environmental pollution problem, low carbon energy technology innovation is becoming the key of global economy sustainable development. But, for the particularity of technology, the low carbon energy technology innovation has enormous risk. Therefore proportion of low carbon energy technology innovation risk through social channels slowly becomes the crux to promoting the development of low carbon energy technology innovation. As the core subjects in risk proportion of technological innovation, enterprises and social risk-sharing organizations all start to select and adjust their strategy in exploration and trial and error and to seek equilibrium point of interest, thus form a dynamic game process. In this paper, the premise of bounded rationality assumptions of evolutionary game theory has been used as an analytical tool to construct evolutionary game model of social proportion of technological innovation risk, and thus to the stability analysis for both the main strategy of evolution. Results of the evolutionary game analysis show that the participation of a third promoting force play a decisive role in the operation and development of social proportion system of technological innovation risk, thus this paper raised conceptions and recommendations for the government that they should take part in the risk prevention system of low carbon energy technology innovation as a conductor and coordinator.

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Analysis of Issues and Measures on Low Carbon Development in Power Industry

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.573-574.1001 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 573-574 ◽

pp. 1001-1004

Author(s):

Dong Xiao Niu ◽

Hong Juan Li ◽

Hong Yun Zhang ◽

Guan Qing Wang

Keyword(s):

Power Industry ◽

International Exchange ◽

Energy Structure ◽

Energy Technology ◽

Low Carbon ◽

Carbon Taxes ◽

New Energy ◽

Low Carbon Development ◽

Western Electric ◽

Low Carbon Energy

The deterioration of the environment is much more serious, which leads to low carbon development of power industry overwhelming, this paper summarizes and analyzes the problems of low carbon development in China’s electricity industry, including the higher cost of low carbon energy construction, unreasonable energy structure, backward level of technology , difficulties of new energy paralleling in power grid; On the other hand, points out some measures towards low carbon development, including determining the price policies of renewable energy, levying carbon taxes and government subsidies, strengthening the construction of western electric facilities, optimizing the power structure, developing new energy technology, applying intelligent grid as well as promoting the international exchange and cooperation. We hope that the analysis can give certain reference for the low carbon development of China’s power industry.

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