Varieties of Innovation in Wind and Solar Industries

2021 ◽  
pp. 20-48
Author(s):  
Jonas Nahm
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Industrial Policy ◽  
Political System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Competitive Strategies ◽  
Industrial Policies ◽  
Public Investments ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Similar Growth

This chapter lays out the central empirical puzzle that motivates the book. It makes two central claims. First, it shows that a common political logic led governments in China, Germany, and the United States to converge on similar policy goals and industrial policy tools in support of wind and solar industries. The need to politically justify public investments in renewable energy sectors ultimately yielded similar growth and employment-focused industrial policies irrespective of the underlying political system. The second half of the chapter chronicles the persistent and consequential divergence of national industrial specializations despite these policy similarities. In the early 2000s, just after China’s WTO accession accelerated changes in the organization of many global industries, firms chose different technological specializations and competitive strategies for participation in emerging wind and solar industries: innovative manufacturing in China, customization in Germany, and invention in the United States.

Wind and Solar Invention in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 151-183
Author(s):  
Jonas Nahm
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
The United States ◽  
Energy Research ◽  
State Support ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Public Investments

Chapter six makes the case that a growing divide between an advanced R&D infrastructure and a declining manufacturing sector encouraged US wind and solar firms to pursue invention largely divorced from production. Most firms lacked the production capabilities to commercialize and manufacture their innovation in-house and decided to rely on complementary capabilities of global partners. In the United States, the large public investments in renewable energy research have yielded the smallest industrial footprint of the three cases examined in this book, with considerable political consequences for the kinds of coalitions that emerged behind state support of wind and solar.

Bipartisanship as Possible Alternative of Russian Political System Evolution

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 256-265
Author(s):  
Konstantin V. Simonov ◽  
Stanislav P. Mitrakhovich
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Political System ◽  
Party System ◽  
Political Competition ◽  
The United States ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Complex Structures ◽  
Practical Advice ◽  
Simultaneous Separation

The article examines the possibility of transfer to bipartisan system in Russia. The authors assess the benefits of the two-party system that include first of all the ensuring of actual political competition and authority alternativeness with simultaneous separation of minute non-system forces that may contribute to the country destabilization. The authors analyze the accompanying risks and show that the concept of the two-party system as the catalyst of elite schism is mostly exaggerated. The authors pay separate attention to the experience of bipartisan system implementation in other countries, including the United States. They offer detailed analysis of the generated concept of the bipartisanship crisis and show that this point of view doesn’t quite agree with the current political practice. The authors also examine the foreign experience of the single-party system. They show that the success of the said system is mostly insubstantial, besides many of such systems have altered into more complex structures, while commentators very often use not the actual information but the established myths about this or that country. The authors also offer practical advice regarding the potential technologies of transition to the bipartisan system in Russia.

Consular Protection and Solidarity across Borders

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Délano Alonso
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Migrant Populations ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Large Populations ◽  
Mexican Government ◽  
Working Together

This chapter demonstrates how Latin American governments with large populations of migrants with precarious legal status in the United States are working together to promote policies focusing on their well-being and integration. It identifies the context in which these processes of policy diffusion and collaboration have taken place as well as their limitations. Notwithstanding the differences in capacities and motivations based on the domestic political and economic contexts, there is a convergence of practices and policies of diaspora engagement among Latin American countries driven by the common challenges faced by their migrant populations in the United States and by the Latino population more generally. These policies, framed as an issue of rights protection and the promotion of migrants’ well-being, are presented as a form of regional solidarity and unity, and are also mobilized by the Mexican government as a political instrument serving its foreign policy goals.

Quantifying the challenge of reaching a 100% renewable energy power system for the United States

Joule ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley J. Cole ◽  
Danny Greer ◽  
Paul Denholm ◽  
A. Will Frazier ◽  
Scott Machen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Power System ◽  
The United States

scholarly journals Renewable Energy Federalism in Germany and the United States

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Johannes Saurer ◽  
Jonas Monast
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
The United States ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
The Us ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
Cooperative Federalism ◽  
Energy Expansion

Abstract The Federal Republic of Germany and the United States (US) have adopted different models for energy federalism. Germany allocates more authority to the federal government and the US relies on a decentralized cooperative federalism model that preserves key roles for state actors. This article explores and compares the relevance of federal legal structures for renewable energy expansion in both countries. It sets out the constitutional, statutory, and factual foundations in both Germany and the US, and explores the legal and empirical dimensions of renewable energy expansion at the federal and state levels. The article concludes by drawing several comparative lessons about the significance of federal structures for energy transition processes.

scholarly journals The United States can keep the grid stable at low cost with 100% clean, renewable energy in all sectors despite inaccurate claims

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (26) ◽  
pp. E5021-E5023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Z. Jacobson ◽  
Mark A. Delucchi ◽  
Mary A. Cameron ◽  
Bethany A. Frew
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
The United States

Negotiating 21st Century Rules on Energy: What Is at Stake for the European Union, the United States and the BRICS?

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilaria Espa ◽  
Kateryna Holzer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
European Union ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Energy Market ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Transatlantic Trade ◽  
Energy Trade ◽  
Trade And Investment ◽  
The Eu

Abstract In the context of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the European Union (EU) has taken the lead in promoting the inclusion of a specific chapter on energy trade and investment in order to enhance energy security and promote renewable energy. Irrespective of the success of the TTIP negotiations, the EU proposal can contribute to developing multilateral rules on energy trade and investment. This is especially important given the increased number of energy disputes filed by the EU and the United States against other leading energy market players, including the BRICS. This article provides a normative analysis of the new rules proposed by the EU and reflects on potential responses of BRICS energy regulators. It argues that, while these rules are unlikely to immediately affect BRICS energy practices, they may eventually be ‘imported’ in BRICS domestic jurisdictions in order to promote renewable energy and attract investment in energy infrastructure.

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