Can germany maintain its energy transition?

Gawel, Erik; Hansjürgens, Bernd; Groth, Markus; Faulstich, Martin; Holm‐Müller, Karin; Kopp, Oliver; Schröer, Sebastian; Luhmann, Hans‐Jochen

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“…Die dritte Folge betrifft die Verbindung von zentral/dezentral (Gawel et al 2013). Eine dezentrale Energieversorgung bringt Vorteile wie geringe Leitungsverluste oder die Möglichkeit der primärenergetisch sinnvollen Nutzung von Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung mit sich.…”

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Risiken der Energiewende: Möglichkeiten der Risikosteuerung mithilfe eines Risk-Governance-Ansatzes

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Dreyer²

2013

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zusammenfassung: Das Konzept der Risiko-Governance beschreibt einen integrierten Ansatz, wie mit Risiken -und dabei insbesondere mit komplexen, unsicheren oder kontrovers diskutierten Risiken -umgegangen werden kann. Dabei bezieht sich der Risiko-Governance Ansatz auf die Integration verschiedener, bislang meist getrennt betrachteter Aktivitäten wie die technische-naturwissenschaftliche Risikoabschätzung, das Risikomanagement und die Risikokommunikation. Der Schwerpunkt dieses Beitrages liegt auf den zentralen fünf Phasen des Risiko-Governance Ansatzes: Pre-Assessment, Risikoabschätzung (technisch und gesellschaftlich), Risikoevaluation und Risikocharakterisierung, Risikomanagement sowie Risikokommunikation. Diese Phasen werden auf die besonderen Herausforderungen, Probleme und Risiken der deutschen Energiewende angewandt. Nur die Integration von technischer, ökonomischer und sozialwissenschaftlicher Expertise bietet eine adäquate Entscheidungsgrundlage für ein erfolgreiches Risikomanagement der Energiewende. Darin eingebettet ist der Dialog mit der Öffentlichkeit, vor allem bei unsicheren und kontrovers diskutierten Risiken. Summary:The notion "risk governance" refers to an integrated concept on how to deal with complex, ambiguous and uncertain impacts in particular. The notion of governance pertains to the many ways in which all relevant actors, individuals and institutions, public and private, deal with interventions that impact society, economy and the environment. It includes formal institutions and regimes and informal arrangements. The main principles of risk governance relate to an integrative and iterative perspective on processes of preassessment, appraisal, evaluation, management and communication. The different tasks of risk governance are applied to the main challenges associated with the German energy transition (Energiewende). Special emphasis is given to the integration of technical, economic and social aspects of the Energiewende and the inclusion of stakeholders in the formulation of future policies.

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Risiken der Energiewende: Möglichkeiten der Risikosteuerung mithilfe eines Risk-Governance-Ansatzes

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“…Political activity should always keep this long-term systemic perspective in sight. Policy that is directed toward short-term, purely sectoral based indicators, such as the allocation of costs in the EEG (the levy or surcharge), does not do this justice [8,9]. …”

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The future of the energy transition in Germany

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Although the goals of the country's energy transition (Energiewende) are widely accepted in Germany, the specific route to get there is itself a matter of great controversy. The individual measures that are part of the energy transition policy and the questions of how they interact and how they are embedded in the European context are objects of controversial scientific and public debate. Most recently, the consequences for the price of electricity have, in particular, been discussed intensely. Against this backdrop of wide-ranging criticism, the future course for promoting renewable energy will soon be set. The German Renewable Energy Sources Act (the Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz, EEG), which is the main instrument of energy transition policy with its feed-in tariffs, is supposed to be fundamentally revised in the course of this year. A precondition for achieving a coherent further development of the energy transition policy and for receiving the sound support of a critical public is that the long-term consequences of political decisions on a complex sociotechnical energy system be taken into account. The requirements of such a system are not satisfied by policy approaches or recommendations that target short-term effects or that are perceptions of problems extrapolated from individual sectors. On the basis of its integrated research on the energy transition, researchers from the Helmholtz Alliance Energy-Trans take a stand on current important controversial issues from the energy transformation and specify fundamental challenges to shaping a sustainable energy transition policy.Keywords: Energy transition; Sustainability; Germany; European Union; State aid; Renewable energy sources; Feed-in tariff; Federalism; Energy policy; Market designThe energy transition: a long-term project and a challenge to the system The energy transition in Germany is nothing less than the restructuring of the entire energy supply in the sectors' electricity, heat, and transportation in a highly industrialized country. This comprehensive reorganization is a task for generations, and yet the fundamental framework has to be created today. Although there continues to be a high level of approval in the general public [1][2][3][4] and among all political forces [5], essential components of the German energy transition policy are themselves currently being subject to criticism, some of it very intense. The focus of this criticism is most frequently on the renewable energy supports provided for the generation of electricity, which take the form of feed-in tariffs permitted by the Renewable Energy Sources Act (Erneuerbare-Energien- Gesetz (EEG)).a Challenges to the energy transition go, however, far beyond this. What is required is a long-term process of transforming a complex sociotechnical system [6,7] in which the goal is to set the course of change so that tomorrow's energy supply works, its consumption of resources, and its impact on the environment are limited to a sustainable level, and, in the process, efficiency and social ac...

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Implications of Economic Theory for Bioenergy Policy Design

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2016

Concepts and Instruments for a Rational Bioenergy Policy

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With the allocative and regulative challenges of bioenergy use outlined (see Chap. 2), this chapter's task is to develop the theoretical basis for a rational bioenergy policy. As discussed in Sect. 2.1.3, the defining characteristic of such a rational bioenergy policy is that it strives for efficiency and sustainability under the constraints imposed by multiple interacting market failures and various sources of government failures (cf. Fig. 2.2), while acknowledging the likely non-optimality of outcomes.Given the various allocative and regulative problems involved in bioenergy policy making, there is no single theoretical approach which covers all relevant aspects. Rather, a number of theories promise important insights. The following economic theories have been identified as especially relevant to the problems of bioenergy policy making:1. The neoclassical economics approach to target setting and instrument choice under perfect information as well as under uncertainty (Sect. 3.1); 2. The theory of second-best, which focuses on the handling of multiple market failures and other constraints on optimal policy design (Sect. 3.2); 3. Information economics contributions which examine the implications of incomplete knowledge for policy decision making (Sect. 3.3); 4. The economic theory of order, which examines more closely the constitutive lack of knowledge that policy makers face, drawing implications for the adequacy of structural or process policy measures (Sect. 3.4); 5. New institutional economics, which explores the consequences of imperfect information, positive transaction costs and self-interested policy makerswithin this theory family, the approaches of transaction cost economics, principal-agent theory, the theory of institutional change, and public choice theory appear particularly relevant (Sect. 3.5); 6. Ecological economics, which focuses on the design of sustainable economics systems while taking potential sources of government failure into account (Sect. 3.6).

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Can germany maintain its energy transition?

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Risiken der Energiewende: Möglichkeiten der Risikosteuerung mithilfe eines Risk-Governance-Ansatzes

Risiken der Energiewende: Möglichkeiten der Risikosteuerung mithilfe eines Risk-Governance-Ansatzes

The future of the energy transition in Germany

Implications of Economic Theory for Bioenergy Policy Design

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