scholarly journals Are decisions well supported for the energy transition? A review on modeling approaches for renewable energy policy evaluation

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Horschig ◽  
Daniela Thrän
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Policy Evaluation ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Renewable Energy Policy ◽  
Modeling Approaches

A multiple perspective modeling and simulation approach for renewable energy policy evaluation

2016 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 280-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Talal Alyamani ◽  
Haluk Damgacioglu ◽  
Nurcin Celik ◽  
Shibab Asfour ◽  
Richard Feiock
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Modeling And Simulation ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Policy Evaluation ◽  
Renewable Energy Policy ◽  
Simulation Approach ◽  
Multiple Perspective

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.

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