Assessment of renewable energy transition pathways for a fossil fuel-dependent electricity-producing jurisdiction

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 243-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Davis ◽  
Adeoye Moronkeji ◽  
Md Ahiduzzaman ◽  
Amit Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Transition Pathways

scholarly journals Latecomers to the Fossil Energy Transition, Frontrunners for Change? The Relevance of the Energy ‘Underdogs’ for Sustainability Transformations

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anke Schaffartzik ◽  
Marina Fischer-Kowalski
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Fossil Energy ◽  
System A ◽  
Traditional Patterns ◽  
Big Push ◽  
Global Population

The global energy system subsumes both extreme wealth (and waste) and extreme poverty. A minority of the global population is consuming the majority of the fossil fuel-based energy and causing global warming. While the mature industrialized economies maintain their high levels of energy consumption, the emerging economies are rapidly expanding their fossil energy systems, emulating traditional patterns of industrialization. We take a global, socio-metabolic perspective on the energy transition phases—take-off, maturation, and completion—of 142 countries between 1971 and 2015. Even within our global fossil energy system, the transition to fossil energy is still ongoing; many countries are in the process of replacing renewable energy with fossil energy. However, due to globally limited supplies and sinks, continuing the fossil energy transition is not an indefinite option. Rather than a “Big Push” for renewable energy within pockets of the fossil energy system, a sustainability transformation is required that would change far more than patterns of energy supply and use. Where this far-reaching change requires pushing back against the fossil energy system, the energy underdogs—the latecomers to the fossil energy transition—just might come out on top.

scholarly journals Federalism as a Double-Edged Sword: The Slow Energy Transition in the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Karapin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
State Level ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
The United States ◽  
Veto Power ◽  
Renewable Energy Policy

Much literature on federalism and multilevel governance argues that federalist institutional arrangements promote renewable energy policies. However, the U.S. case supports a different view that federalism has ambivalent effects. Policy innovation has occurred at the state level and to some extent has led to policy adoption by other states and the federal government, but the extent is limited by the veto power of fossil fuel interests that are rooted in many state governments and in Congress, buttressed by increasing Republican Party hostility to environmental and climate policy. This argument is supported by a detailed analysis of five periods of federal and state renewable energy policy-making, from the Carter to the Trump administrations. The negative effects of federalism on national renewable energy policy in the United States, in contrast to the West European cases in this special issue, are mainly due to the interaction of its federalist institutions with party polarization and a strong domestic fossil fuel industry.

scholarly journals The Time-Series of Energy Mix and Transition: A Comparative Study of OECD Countries through the Fuzzy-Set Analysis

Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 2992
Author(s):  
Taewook Huh ◽  
Yong-Chan Choi ◽  
Jiyoung Kim
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Fuzzy Set ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Gradual Change ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Energy Mix ◽  
Measurement Framework

This study aims to analyze the global trends of energy mix and energy transition from a chronological view (from Y1995 to Y2015) and identify the actual results based on the empirical findings. It sets up a measurement framework of energy mix (four energy sources: fossil fuel (F), hydroelectric (H), renewable (R), and nuclear (N)), and compares thirty-four Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries’ cases through the fuzzy-set ideal type analysis. In short, twelve ideal types of energy mix of the thirty-four OECD countries were derived in Y1995; eleven ideal types in Y2000, thirteen ideal types in Y2005, twelve ideal types in Y2010, and fifteen ideal types in Y2015, respectively. This study particularly reveals the gradual change of the features of energy transition, although an epoch-making trend of overall energy transition in OECD countries is not identified. For example, from1995 to 2010, in the case of Type 7 (F*h*r*N) with a characteristic of ‘pan-conventional energy-centered mix’ having two high features (F, N), and of Type 8 (F*h*r*n), characterized by ‘fossil fuel-centered energy mix’ with one high feature (F), seven to eight countries were steadily included, but in 2015 there was a significant decrease to four countries (solely Type 7). Throughout the five stages from 1995 to 2015, the type with the largest number of countries (20) was Type 10 (f*H*R*n, ‘pan-renewable energy-centered type’) led by hydroelectric (H) and renewable energy sources (R), followed by the second most, Type 12, (f*H*r*N, ‘hydro & nuclear-centered type’, characterized the high features of H and N) with nineteen countries.

scholarly journals Energy Transition and Sustainable Road Transportation in Turkey: Multiple Policy Challenges for Inclusive Change

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gülfem Cevheribucak
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Road Transportation ◽  
Gas Emissions

This paper aims to explore energy insecurity in Turkey at the intersection of environmental sustainability, human security and justice vis-à-vis growing energy demand coupled with greenhouse gas emissions coming from the transport sector. High dependence on fossil fuel imports creates bottlenecks for the economy and require urgent shift to renewable energy sources. Prospects for renewable energy transition are analyzed based on focusing on total final energy consumption by energy and transport sector as well as greenhouse gas emissions. In order to propose holistic clarifications to the triangular problem of high fossil fuel dependence, energy demand increase and greenhouse gas mitigation, sustainable energy transition in road transport is put forward. It is justified based on the share of greenhouse gas emissions originating from road transport sector and high taxation levels that create extra burden on private consumers. Energy transition is conceptualized with the theoretical offerings of sustainability transition literature that point out to socio-technical processes, hence the societal, technological as well as external structural contexts of change. Upon this background, this policy and practice review outlines the current policy instruments in order to highlight the mismatch between policy and practices for just energy transition in conjunction with sustainable mobility in Turkey.

How COVID-19 is Accelerating Energy Transition in Developing Oil-Rich Countries: Nigeria as a Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-240
Author(s):  
Chibueze Ekeh
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Oil Prices ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Energy Poverty ◽  
Fossil Fuel Consumption ◽  
Rich Countries ◽  
The Impact

The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has created a lot of challenges as well as opportunities. In oil-rich countries that are considered to developing countries, governments have typically subsidized consumption of electricity and petrol. With dwindling government revenues to low oil prices and the COVID-19 pandemic, renewable energy is gaining more attention as a considerable alternative. In this article, the author examines the impact of COVID-19 on reduction in fossil fuel consumption; the acceleration of access to electricity through use of solar home systems and mini-grids; the reduction of environmental pollution; and the ultimately the reduction of energy poverty. The analysis highlights the opportunities for renewable energy businesses to re-assess their business models to ensure that they survive the temporary economic challenges and are better positioned for a post COVID-19 world.

Impasse Time

2021 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-89
Author(s):  
Mark Simpson ◽  
Imre Szeman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Temporal Mode ◽  
Fossil Fuel Energy

Although energy transition—a shift from dirty energy to cleaner, renewable energy—has become a mantra for an effective way of addressing climate change, energy impasse—the incapacity of any transition whatsoever—is actually the defining condition of our age. This essay contributes to a fuller understanding of energy transition, climate change, and the promise of renewable energy by examining the specific temporality of energy impasse. Rather than a simple blockage that can easily be nudged aside, energy impasse is underwritten by a temporal “stuckness” that is a key effect of two centuries of fossil fuel energy use. The specific characteristics of this distinct temporal mode are explored in relation to the twentieth-century project of economic futurity historicized by Timothy Mitchell and two recent versions of sustainable futurity theorized by Allan Stoekl. The time signatures named and explained in these examples of futurity serve, in distinct but complementary ways, to enable and perpetuate the stuckness of energy impasse. The essay’s argument illuminates the abiding challenge posed by petroculture, while considering the implications of impasse time for the form of solar futurity here termed the solar fix.

Energy After COVID

2020 ◽  
Vol 119 (820) ◽  
pp. 317-322
Author(s):  
Michael T. Klare
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Peak Oil ◽  
Business Travel ◽  
Reduce Energy Consumption ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Energy Companies

By transforming patterns of travel and work around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the transition to renewable energy and the decline of fossil fuels. Lockdowns brought car commuting and plane travel to a near halt, and the mass experiment in which white-collar employees have been working from home may permanently reduce energy consumption for business travel. Renewable energy and electric vehicles were already gaining market share before the pandemic. Under pressure from investors, major energy companies have started writing off fossil fuel reserves as stranded assets that are no longer worth the cost of extracting. These shifts may indicate that “peak oil demand” has arrived earlier than expected.

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