Policy networks in energy transitions: The cases of carbon capture and storage and offshore wind in Norway

Significance The country has made considerable progress in recent years on energy security and cutting emissions. However, achieving the 2050 target requires the development of a hydrogen strategy, a breakthrough on carbon capture and storage (CCS), significant electrification of transport, and a huge expansion of solar and wind power. Impacts Offshore wind again looks likely to be the main beneficiary of the government’s next CfD bid rounds. Hydrogen technologies appear set to become the next major area of innovation and growth within the renewables sector. CCS will remain a problematic area of development.

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EU climate progress will be most clear in renewables

Emerald Expert Briefings ◽

10.1108/oxan-db266440 ◽

2022 ◽

Keyword(s):

Carbon Capture ◽

Carbon Capture And Storage ◽

Energy Transition ◽

Offshore Wind ◽

European Security ◽

Foreign Markets ◽

Content Type ◽

Electricity Grid ◽

And Storage

Significance Although the exact details of the package remain subject to clarification and amendment, it requires a much broader decarbonisation effort beyond the power sector, as well as public-sector financial commitments to higher-risk energy transition technologies such as hydrogen and carbon capture and storage. Impacts Increased renewable energy capacity and wider electrification will highlight lagging investment in electricity grid infrastructure. Enhanced offshore wind targets and European developers’ desire to enter foreign markets will stretch offshore wind supply chains. Although increasingly contentious, the role of gas is likely to become more important in terms of European security of energy supply.

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Offshore wind ambitions will surge in northern Europe

Emerald Expert Briefings ◽

10.1108/oxan-db253324 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Carbon Capture ◽

Carbon Capture And Storage ◽

Job Creation ◽

Offshore Wind ◽

Northern Europe ◽

Content Type ◽

Northern European ◽

Net Zero ◽

Zero Carbon ◽

And Storage

Subject Offshore wind in northern Europe. Significance Falling costs, the adoption of net zero carbon targets and a growing acceptance of the role ‘green’ hydrogen will play in natural gas decarbonisation have seen northern European countries’ raise their targets for new offshore wind capacity. Energy island concepts are being promoted to tap the resource further offshore. Denmark will build two energy islands as the centrepiece of its plans to deliver huge emissions cuts by 2030. Impacts Oil majors looking towards energy source diversification are likely to be attracted to offshore wind. It is unclear whether Carbon Capture and Storage projects will lose out to ‘green’ hydrogen production or be pursued in tandem. The offshore wind sector and its supply chains are likely to become an important source of new job creation.

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