Citizens’ images of a sustainable energy transition

Vainio, Annukka; Varho, Vilja; Tapio, Petri; Pulkka, Anna; Paloniemi, Riikka

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2019.06.134

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“…He concluded that in this region, three myths of fossil fuels vs. renewables, competition regarding smart grid and storage system technologies, and energy sovereignty vs. energy interdependency should be solved to enhance the energy transition level of Sardinia in the future. Vainio et al (2019) investigated achieving a sustainable energy transition in Finland with a focus on the importance of citizen's images. The major findings revealed that the sustainable energy transition was strongly supported in Finland, but different socio-economic groups preferred somewhat different images.…”

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Analyzing Energy Transition Patterns in Asia: Evidence From Countries With Different Income Levels

Taghizadeh–Hesary¹,

Rasoulinezhad²

2020

Front. Energy Res.

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Energy transition as the issue of striving to use more environmentally friendly energy sources instead of fossil fuels is a crucial debate for scholars. A key point is how macroeconomic variables can accelerate the energy transition movement in different regions, which may lead to similarities in energy transition patterns among various regions. The main purpose of this study is to determine how energy transition patterns depend on economic variables in Asian economies, classifying based on their income level. To this end, we collected the related variables for 45 economies in Asia over the period 1993-2018 and conducted estimation using the generalized method of moments (GMM) approach. The major results revealed that economic growth has a positive relationship with the energy transition, while CO 2 emissions negatively influence energy transition. Furthermore, in both sub-sample groups (i.e., high and upper-middle-income and low and lower-middle-income groups) an increase in population lows the energy transition process. As an important recommendation, Asian economies with different income levels need different policies to improve and accelerate the energy transition movements. Especially in the developing and emerging economies that have higher economic growth rate and more energy demand, the governments need to implement various supportive policies for easing the access to electricity from green resources in line with the sustainable development goals (SDGs). This is more essential in the current low oil price era.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Analyzing Energy Transition Patterns in Asia: Evidence From Countries With Different Income Levels

Taghizadeh–Hesary¹,

Rasoulinezhad²

2020

Front. Energy Res.

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“…Diverse factors influence adoption of climate-related actions. These include (i) psychological factors, e.g., personal values and identity, threat awareness, sense of responsibility, the perceived behavior of others (social norms), and perceptions about the action; (ii) contextual factors that influence the opportunity to perform an action, e.g., availability of solar technologies, incentives; (iii) personal capacity to perform the action, including access to time and resources; and (iv) habits (Bouman et al, 2020;Klockner, 2013;Stern, 2000;Vainio, Pulkka, Paloniemi, Varho, & Tapio, 2020;van Valkengoed & Steg, 2019;Wolske, Gillingham, & Schultz, 2020). A distal but necessary precursor for taking action is knowing what actions can be performed to achieve a goal, sometimes referred to as "procedural knowledge" (Kaiser & Fuhrer, 2003).…”

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“Taking action for the Reef?”–Australians do not connect Reef conservation with individual climate‐related actions

Dean

Gulliver

Wilson

2020

CONSERVATION LETTERS

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Climate change is the most significant threat to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). While Australians express appreciation and concern for the GBR, it is not clear whether they connect climate-related action with reef conservation. An online survey of 4,285 Australians asked ".. . what types of actions could people like you do that would be helpful for the GBR?" Only 4.1% mentioned a specific action related to mitigating climate change; another 3.8% mentioned climate change but no specific action. The most common responses related to reducing plastic pollution (25.6%). These findings demonstrate that most Australians have poor capacity to identify individual climate-related actions as helpful for reef protection, and that generic calls to action-such as "protect the reef"-are unlikely to elicit climate-related actions. As such, reef conservation initiatives must explicitly promote actions-in the home and in society-that reduce emissions and support the transition to a low carbon society.

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“…Yet, we found only a few differences between the energy system expectations for the year 2050 (main sample) and the year 2030 (experimental sample). This indicates that public energy system expectations are conceptually different from scenario projections [23]. Particularly, expectations tend to be static in the sense that they do not describe a path-to-the-end state, but rather the future end state itself.…”

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“…. ]" that Vainio et al [23] also attested to their sample in a survey assessing citizens' images of a sustainable energy transition.…”

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“…In fact, people differ both in their perception of long timeframes [21] as well as in their consideration of future consequences [22]. With the exception of [23], previous studies on public expectations have rarely focused on a specific socio-technical system in an in-depth way and only first attempts to create scales for assessing expectations in the energy system exist [24,25]. Furthermore, there is no substantial body of research trying to explore and classify expectations of the future energy system among the public.…”

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How the public imagines the energy future: Exploring and clustering non-experts’ techno-economic expectations towards the future energy system

Braunreiter

Stauffacher

Blumer³

2020

PLoS ONE

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Various countries have pledged to carry out system-wide energy transitions to address climate change. This requires taking strategic decisions with long-term consequences under conditions of considerable uncertainty. For this reason, many actors in the energy sector develop model-based scenarios to guide debates and decision-making about plausible future energy systems. Besides being a decision support instrument for policy-makers, energy scenarios are widely recognized as a way of shaping the expectations of experts and of influencing energy policy more generally. However, relatively little is known about how energy scenarios shape preferences and expectations of the public. We use an explorative research design to assess the publics' expectations of future energy systems through an online survey among Swiss residents (N = 797). We identified four significantly different clusters of people with distinct expectations about the future energy system, each seeing different implications for the acceptability of energy policies and the compatibility with projections of techno-economic energy scenarios. Cluster 1 expects a system-wide energy transition towards renewable energy sources that is similar to the policy-relevant national energy scenario. Cluster 2 also expects an energy transition, but believes it will lead to a range of technical challenges, societal conflicts and controversies with neighboring countries. Cluster 3 is the only cluster not expecting significant changes in the future energy system and thus not anticipating an energy transition. Cluster 4's expectations are between cluster 1 and 2, but it anticipates a huge increase in per capita electricity demand while prices are expected to remain low. The study at hand offers some initial insights into the interdependencies between energy transition pathways outlined in techno-economic energy scenarios and the energy system expectations of the public. These insights are essential for gaining a better understanding of whether and how energy scenarios can contribute to informed public debates about energy futures and how desirable pathways towards them might look like.

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Citizens’ images of a sustainable energy transition

Cited by 37 publications

References 29 publications

Analyzing Energy Transition Patterns in Asia: Evidence From Countries With Different Income Levels

Analyzing Energy Transition Patterns in Asia: Evidence From Countries With Different Income Levels

“Taking action for the Reef?”–Australians do not connect Reef conservation with individual climate‐related actions

How the public imagines the energy future: Exploring and clustering non-experts’ techno-economic expectations towards the future energy system

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