The German Energy Transition

Author : Carol Hager,Christoph H. Stefes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137442888

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Germany's Energy Transition by Carol Hager,Christoph H. Stefes Pdf

This book analyzes Germany's path-breaking Energiewende, the country's transition from an energy system based on fossil and nuclear fuels to a sustainable energy system based on renewables. The authors explain Germany's commitment to a renewable energy transition on multiple levels of governance, from the local to the European, focusing on the sources of institutional change that made the transition possible. They then place the German case in international context through comparative case studies of energy transitions in the USA, China, and Japan. These chapters highlight the multifaceted challenges, and the enormous potential, in different paths to a sustainable energy future. Taken together, they tell the story of one of the most important political, economic, and social undertakings of our time.

Author : Ludger Gailing,Timothy Moss
Publisher : Springer
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137505934

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Conceptualizing Germany’s Energy Transition by Ludger Gailing,Timothy Moss Pdf

This is the first book to explore ways of conceptualizing Germany’s ongoing energy transition. Although widely acclaimed in policy and research circles worldwide, the Energiewende is poorly understood in terms of social science scholarship. There is an urgent need to delve beyond descriptive accounts of policy implementation and contestation in order to unpack the deeper issues at play in what has been termed a 'grand societal transformation.' The authors approach this in three ways: First, they select and characterize conceptual approaches suited to interpreting the reordering of institutional arrangements, socio-material configurations, power relations and spatial structures of energy systems in Germany and beyond. Second, they assess the value of these concepts in describing and explaining energy transitions, pinpointing their relative strengths and weaknesses and exploring areas of complementarity and incompatibility. Third, they illustrate how these concepts can be applied – individually and in combination – to enrich empirical research of Germany’s energy transition.

Author : Thomas Unnerstall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783662543290

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The German Energy Transition by Thomas Unnerstall Pdf

The book presents a comprehensive and systematic account of the concept, the current status and the costs of the German energy transition: the Energiewende. Written by an insider who has been working in the German energy industry for over 20 years, it follows a strictly non-political, neutral approach and clearly outlines the most relevant facts and figures. In particular, it describes the main impacts of the Energiewende on the German power system and Germany’s national economy. Furthermore, it addresses questions that are of global interest with respect to energy transitions, such as the cost to the national economy, the financial burden on private households and companies and the actual effects on CO2 emissions. The book also discusses what could have been done better in terms of planning and implementing the Energiewende, and identifies important lessons for other countries that are considering a similar energy transition.

Author : Craig Morris,Arne Jungjohann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319318912

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Energy Democracy by Craig Morris,Arne Jungjohann Pdf

This book outlines how Germans convinced their politicians to pass laws allowing citizens to make their own energy, even when it hurt utility companies to do so. It traces the origins of the Energiewende movement in Germany from the Power Rebels of Schönau to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s shutdown of eight nuclear power plants following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. The authors explore how, by taking ownership of energy efficiency at a local level, community groups are key actors in the bottom-up fight against climate change. Individually, citizens might install solar panels on their roofs, but citizen groups can do much more: community wind farms, local heat supply, walkable cities and more. This book offers evidence that the transition to renewables is a one-time opportunity to strengthen communities and democratize the energy sector – in Germany and around the world.

Author : Erik Gawel,Sebastian Strunz,Paul Lehmann,Alexandra Purkus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030033743

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The European Dimension of Germany’s Energy Transition by Erik Gawel,Sebastian Strunz,Paul Lehmann,Alexandra Purkus Pdf

This book addresses the interactions between Germany’s energy transition and the EU’s energy policy framework. It seeks to analyze the manifold connections between the prospects of the proclaimed “Energy Union” and the future of Germany’s energy transition, and identifies relevant lessons for the transformation at the EU level that can be learned from the case of Germany, as a first-mover of transforming energy systems towards renewables. The various repercussions (political, economic and systemic) from the national transition are explored within the EU context as it responds to the German transition, taking into account both existing frictions and potential synergies between predominantly national sustainability policies and the EU’s push towards harmonized policies within a common market. The book’s overall aim is to identify the most critical issues, in order to avoid pitfalls and capitalize on opportunities.

Author : Wolfgang Gründinger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783658176914

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Drivers of Energy Transition by Wolfgang Gründinger Pdf

Wolfgang Gründinger explores how interest groups, veto opportunities, and electoral pressure formed the German energy transition: nuclear exit, renewables, coal (CCS), and emissions trading. His findings provide evidence that logics of political competition in new German politics have fundamentally changed over the last two decades with respect to five distinct mechanisms: the end of ’fossil-nuclear’ corporatism, the new importance of trust in lobbying, ’green ’ path dependence, the emergence of a ’Green Grand Coalition’, and intra-party fights over energy politics. ​

Author : Christine Sturm
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030427306

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Inside the Energiewende by Christine Sturm Pdf

This book tells the story of one nation’s sustained efforts to steer its economy toward low carbon technologies and to define national and global pathways for mitigating climate change. Drawing on a long career in Germany’s energy sector, and on subsequent academic research, the book reveals the weaknesses of and critical trade-offs in Germany’s bold energy transition plan − the Energiewende − and explores their causes. Its goal is to provide insights to help policymakers and energy managers keep some of the problems that have plagued the Energiewende at bay, and to instead explore avenues that are more likely to succeed. While such insights cannot solve the problem of socio-technical change overnight, they do reveal alternative transition pathways that keep climate goals clearly in sight, even if they are pursued with a bit less exuberance and a bit more humility. The book is addressed to academic, professional, and political readers alike.

Author : Stephen G. Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197667736

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Energy and Power by Stephen G. Gross Pdf

A novel exploration of the deeper political, economic, and geopolitical history behind Germany's daring campaign to restructure its energy system around green power. Since the 1990s, Germany has embarked on a daring campaign to restructure its energy system around renewable power, sparking a global revolution in solar and wind technology. But this pioneering energy transition has been plagued with problems. In Energy and Power, Stephen G. Gross explains the deeper origins of the Energiewende--Germany's transition to green energy--and offers the first comprehensive history of German energy and climate policy from World War II to the present. The book follows the Federal Republic as it passed through five energy transitions from the dramatic shift to oil that nearly wiped out the nation's hard coal sector, to the oil shocks and the rise of the Green movement in the 1970s and 1980s, the co-creation of a natural gas infrastructure with Russia, and the transition to renewable power today. He shows how debates over energy profoundly shaped the course of German history and influenced the landmark developments that define modern Europe. As Gross argues, the intense and early politicization of energy led the Federal Republic to diverge from the United States and rethink its fossil economy well before global warming became a public issue, building a green energy system in the name of many social goals. Yet Germany's experience also illustrates the difficulty, the political battles, and the unintended consequences that surround energy transitions. By combining economy theory with a study of interest groups, ideas, and political mobilization, Energy and Power offers a novel explanation for why energy transitions happen. Further, it provides a powerful lens to move beyond conventional debates on Germany's East-West divide, or its postwar engagement with the Holocaust, to explore how this nation has shaped the contemporary world in other important ways.

Author : Sarah Debor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319776286

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Multiplying Mighty Davids? by Sarah Debor Pdf

This book systematically describes and evaluates the impact of energy cooperatives as a key driving force in the German energy transition toward a sustainability-oriented energy sector. Based on a comprehensive survey and three case studies, it provides an instructive overview of the overall dimensions and scope of energy cooperatives in Germany, and of their history, structure and current investment projects. The book not only contributes to the energy policy discourse in Germany, but also highlights the role of energy cooperatives to enable an international readership to explore their potential in other countries. Further, it makes a theoretical contribution toward substantially supplementing actor research in general, and enterprise research in particular, in the field of sustainability transitions science.

Author : ChristineBräutigam Klaus-Raine Rösch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1013278593

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Indicator-based Sustainability Assessment of the German Energy System and Its Transition by ChristineBräutigam Klaus-Raine Rösch Pdf

The energy transition not only has an impact on technical infrastructures but also leads to socio-economic changes. To evaluate the sustainability aspects of the German Energiewende, the authors have developed a monitoring system which includes 45 indicators and their corresponding target values for 2020, 2030, and 2050 as well as a rating system for the year 2020 based on a distance-to-target approach and traffic color lights. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Roesch, Christine,Braeutigam, Klaus-Rainer,Kopfmueller, Juergen,Stelzer, Volker,Lichtner, Patrick,Fricke, Annika
Publisher : KIT Scientific Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783731507925

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Indicator-based Sustainability Assessment of the German Energy System and its Transition by Roesch, Christine,Braeutigam, Klaus-Rainer,Kopfmueller, Juergen,Stelzer, Volker,Lichtner, Patrick,Fricke, Annika Pdf

Author : Tong Zhu,Lei Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789813294998

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State Energy Transition by Tong Zhu,Lei Wang Pdf

This book places a current topic—energy transition—within the historical background of human social development and explores the value and significance of energy transition for economic transition in the course of economic growth. It sheds light on the basic logic and the distinguishing characteristics of energy transition by reviewing the history of energy transition development in order to provide a new perspective for understanding and analyzing China's energy transition considering lessons from the German and American energy transition experiences. This book will be of interest to environmentalists, economists, and journalists.

Author : Frances Fahy,Gary Goggins,Charlotte Jensen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Agriculture (General)
ISBN : 9783030203399

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Energy Demand Challenges in Europe by Frances Fahy,Gary Goggins,Charlotte Jensen Pdf

This open access book examines the role of citizens in sustainable energy transitions across Europe. It explores energy problem framing, policy approaches and practical responses to the challenge of securing clean, affordable and sustainable energy for all citizens, focusing on households as the main unit of analysis. The book revolves around ten contributions that each summarise national trends, socio-material characteristics, and policy responses to contemporary energy issues affecting householders in different countries, and provides good practice examples for designing and implementing sustainable energy initiatives. Prominent concerns include reducing carbon emissions, energy poverty, sustainable consumption, governance, practices, innovations and sustainable lifestyles. The opening and closing contributions consider European level energy policy, dominant and alternative problem framings and similarities and differences between European countries in relation to reducing household energy use. Overall, the book is a valuable resource for researchers, policy-makers, practitioners and others interested in sustainable energy perspectives

Author : Philippe Hamman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000528527

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Cross-Border Renewable Energy Transitions by Philippe Hamman Pdf

This book explores the intrinsically multiscale issue of renewable energy transition from a local, national and transnational perspective, and provides insights into current developments in the Upper Rhine Region that can serve as an international model. Organised around the exploration of stakeholder issues, the volume first describes a framework for public action and modelling and then articulates a triple complementary focus from the viewpoint of law, economics and sociology. This multidisciplinary approach is anchored in the social sciences, but also explores the ways in which technological issues are increasingly debated in the implementation of the ecological transition. With a focus on the Upper Rhine Region of France, Germany and Switzerland, the contributions throughout analyse how concrete regional projects emerge, and whether they are carried out by local authorities, private energy groups, network associations or committed citizens. From this, it appears that real-world energy transition modes can be best understood as permanent transactional processes involving institutional regulations, economic levers and barriers and social interactions. This book will be of interest to advanced students and scholars focusing on renewable energy transition, stakeholder issues, environment and sustainability studies, as well as those who are interested in the methodological aspects of the social sciences, especially within the fields of sociology, law, economy, geography, political science, urbanism and planning.

Author : Natalia Magnani,Giovanni Carrosio
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030834814

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Understanding the Energy Transition by Natalia Magnani,Giovanni Carrosio Pdf

The transformation of the dominant model of centralized energy production from fossil fuels to renewable energies is at the center of the public and scientific debate, as well as the subject of national and European policies, as it is connected to highly topical issues such as climate change, emissions reduction and natural disasters, security of supply and sustainability of the current economic development model. Up to now this topic has been mainly addressed by the economic and engineering sciences, with a research focus on the hardware rather than on the human and social software. However, energy systems, and the possibilities of change, are not only economic or technological but involve also patterns of social life, representations, organizational models and relational structures. In order to generate the social preconditions for the transition to a low-emission society, focused on a growing production of energy from renewable sources and on a greater sustainability of consumption, it is therefore urgent to reaffirm the centrality of a sociological approach to energy. This book focused on three core research areas which are crucial to understand what is at stake with the energy transition: conflicts over the construction and location of renewable energy production plants; collective action on renewable sources that promote a new model of energy system in which consumers are also producers; and the social-territorial impact of energy policies.