Energy Transition and Roles of Local Governments: Renewable Energy Policy under the Moon Jae-in Administration

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-103
Author(s):  
Hee-Jin Han
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Renewable Energy Policy ◽  
The Moon

The rise of community choice aggregation and its implications for California’s energy transition: A preliminary assessment

2020 ◽  
pp. 0958305X2092738
Author(s):  
Sean F Kennedy ◽  
Bailey Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Cost Allocation ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Renewable Energy Policy ◽  
Policy Objectives

Community choice aggregation—an emerging electricity supply model allowing residents and businesses to purchase electricity from local governments instead of utilities—is projected to account for 60% of Californian customers currently served by investor-owned utilities by 2020.Community choice aggregation advocates claim that the model is an effective means of meeting California’s renewable energy policy objectives in a way that is more democratic and socially just than the prevailing utility-based model of electricity governance. We interrogate these claims through a focus on three issues: community choice aggregation governance and access to capital, electricity procurement, and customer rates and retention. We find that community choice aggregators have been able to address concerns regarding access to capital while balancing competing objectives around renewable energy and affordability. However, local benefits—particularly in terms of local economic development driven by the expansion of distributed generation—are yet to be fully realized. In addition, ongoing policy uncertainty regarding cost allocation between utility and community choice aggregation customers may limit the ability of community choice aggregators to offer competitive rates, which may threaten the model’s long-term viability. We conclude by arguing that meeting California’s future renewable energy requires a reconfiguration of the regulatory framework that leverages the respective strengths of both community choice aggregators and investor-owned utilities in the context of the state’s energy transition.

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 Role of Advocacy Coalitions in Shaping the Technological Innovation Systems: The Case of the Russian Renewable Energy Policy

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (21) ◽  
pp. 6941
Author(s):  
Tatiana Nevzorova ◽  
Vladimir Kutcherov
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Innovation Systems ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Renewable Energy Policy ◽  
Advocacy Coalition ◽  
Rich Countries

Many hydrocarbon-rich countries have recognized the global shift towards renewable energy sources, and Russia is not an exception. Drawing on two strands of literature—technological innovation systems and the advocacy coalition framework—we investigate the roles of actors and coalitions in shaping the Russian renewable energy policy and explore why particular renewable energy sources have progressed more than others, and what the main reasons are for their sudden development. The results show that the more successful renewable energy industries are those that were promoted by influential actors from traditional energy industries. Moreover, these actors also promoted the specific design of support schemes for renewable energy policy in Russia. We discuss the importance of policy process theories for understanding energy transition studies and provide specific policy recommendations for policy creation in the renewables industry.

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