Energy shocks, crises and the policy process: A review of theory and application

Grossman, Peter Z.

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2014.11.031

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“…For our analysis in this paper, we additionally impose an arbitrary maximum cap of 10% for a CO2 price rise in any given year, reflecting that this rate of change, if maintained, would result in a doubling approximately every 7 years (which is extremely rapid by any measure of systemic change). Finally, because political science tells us that backsliding on climate policy commitments, as well as weakening or abandoning long term targets are real possibilities [115,116], we employ a mechanism whereby repeated failure to lower emissions over an arbitrary number of years (in this case 3 years in a row), results in a temporary setback for climate policy. This is represented by a temporary collapse in the carbon price of 10%, which acts as a proxy for weakening government support.…”

Section: Government Decision Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Take me to your leader: Using socio-technical energy transitions (STET) modelling to explore the role of actors in decarbonisation pathways

Strachan

2019

Energy Research & Social Science

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Quantitative modelling analysis in support of national and global decarbonisation pathways has never been more important to achieving global climate stabilisation in line with the Paris Agreement. However, established equilibrium and optimisation models tend to radically simplify their depiction of societal and political/institutional actors. This can make them difficult to use for implementing specific energy and climate policies in the near term and aligning these with long term targets. Most energy systems analysis continues to pair such techno-economic models with entirely qualitative narratives about future political and societal developments. The result is that these critical factors often fade into the background in subsequent discourse. In this paper, we utilise BLUEa leading socio-technical energy transition (STET) model of the United Kingdom's (UK) energy systemto capture elements of the heterogeneity, consistency and co-evolution of societal and political drivers. We focus specifically on exploring government-led and societally-led energy transitions and investigating the differences in their decarbonisation pathways and end states. Our modelling exercise finds that it is not who leads per se that is the most critical, but rather the level of the initial effort and subsequent commitment from both leader and follower actors that appears to regulate the pace at which decarbonisation pathways unfold. However, systemic inertia in all cases means that the deepest decarbonisation targets continue to appear very difficult to achieve.

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Section: Government Decision Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Take me to your leader: Using socio-technical energy transitions (STET) modelling to explore the role of actors in decarbonisation pathways

Strachan

2019

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…Socio-cultural systems generally become unstable with growing concern and dissent among the population (e.g., with respect to a certain political path) often reflected by an increasing public debate in the mass media. During such phases of instability or crises e often following unexpected exogenous events or shocks e.g., [30] e socalled 'windows of opportunity' occur within which even weak political impulses may invoke radical shifts e.g., [20,31]. Such crises thus provide opportune circumstances to implement significant policy changes [30,32].…”

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“…During such phases of instability or crises e often following unexpected exogenous events or shocks e.g., [30] e socalled 'windows of opportunity' occur within which even weak political impulses may invoke radical shifts e.g., [20,31]. Such crises thus provide opportune circumstances to implement significant policy changes [30,32]. In the absence of shocks, governments continuously work to intentionally prepare windows of opportunity [31].…”

Section: Path Dependencies and Windows Of Opportunitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The German Energiewende – History and status quo

Hake

Fischer

Venghaus

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“…(Bertoldi et al, 2013). Energy efficiency started to attract the attention of policy makers and researchers in the seventies, at the time of the first oil embargo by OPEC in 1973, following the Yom Kipur War, when there was a sudden increase in the oil prices, and again in 1979 after the first oil crisis (Grossman, 2015;Rüdiger, 2019), which led to relevant concerns also in terms of energy security of supply.…”

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Ten years of Energy Efficiency: a bibliometric analysis

2018

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Energy Efficiency is an international journal dedicated to research topics connected to energy with a focus on end-use efficiency issues. In 2018, the journal celebrates its 10 th anniversary. In order to mark it and analyse not only how the journal has been performing over the years, but also which are the trends for academic debate and research in this journal, this article presents a bibliometric overview of the publication and citation structure of the journal during period 2008-2017. The study relies on the Web of Science Core Collection and the Scopus database to collect the bibliographic results. Additionally, the work exploits the visualization of similarities (VOS) viewer software to map graphically the bibliographic material. The research analyses the most cited papers and the most popular keywords. Moreover, the paper studies how the journal connects with other international journals and identifies the most productive authors, institutions and countries. The results indicate that the journal has rapidly grown over the years, obtained a merited position in the scientific community, with contributions from authors all over the world (with Europe as most productive region). Moreover, the journal has focused so far mainly on energy efficiency issues in close relationship with policies and incentives, corporate energy efficiency, consumer behaviour and demand-side management programs, with both industrial, building and transport sectors widely involved. Our discussion concludes with suggested future research avenues, in particular towards coordinated efforts from different disciplines (technical, economic and socio-psychological ones) to address the emerging energy efficiency challenges.

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Energy shocks, crises and the policy process: A review of theory and application

Cited by 58 publications

References 53 publications

Take me to your leader: Using socio-technical energy transitions (STET) modelling to explore the role of actors in decarbonisation pathways

Take me to your leader: Using socio-technical energy transitions (STET) modelling to explore the role of actors in decarbonisation pathways

The German Energiewende – History and status quo

Ten years of Energy Efficiency: a bibliometric analysis

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