Paradigm shift in Danish wind power: the (un)sustainable transformation of a sector

Abstract

General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research.  You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain  You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.

Energy Communities and the Tensions Between Neoliberalism and Communitarianism

“…There is no shortage of critical literature that shows how the EU neoliberal focus on market-based governance has allowed powerful elites to promote public policies that mainly serve to further their interests. Kirkegaard et al ( 2021 ) for instance demonstrate that the new EU competition-based tender processes for RE production capacity serve to strengthen the incumbent multinationals and limit competition by denying the opportunity of smaller actors to take part in the energy system. Verbruggen and Laes ( 2021 ) show how the creation of a market for tradeable green certificates (a policy instrument introduced to promote the growth of RE generation) led to excessive financial transfers from small electricity consumers to large-scale renewable electricity generators, limited to no technological innovation, and target fetishism.…”

“…Verbruggen and Laes ( 2021 ) show how the creation of a market for tradeable green certificates (a policy instrument introduced to promote the growth of RE generation) led to excessive financial transfers from small electricity consumers to large-scale renewable electricity generators, limited to no technological innovation, and target fetishism. Nevertheless, both Kirkegaard et al ( 2021 ) and Verbruggen and Laes ( 2021 ) also point out that alternative market-based policy designs were available in the cases they discuss. Therefore, the use of market-based policy instruments is not per se inherently problematic, but rather the incumbents’ vastly superior understanding (compared to the often-understaffed policy administrations) of the ‘nuts and bolts’ of these instruments and the lobbying power at their disposal to push through the designs that best fit their interests.…”

Digital twinning as an act of governance in the wind energy sector

“…While simplifications and black-boxed framings of reality are necessary in order to make sense of the world around us and to make knowledge actionable (Callon and Muniesa, 2005), it can also lead to the exclusion of non-quantitative concerns. This too limits inclusion of actors and their concerns in twinning and can play a direct role in producing controversy (Labussière and Nadaï, 2014;Kirch Kirkegaard et al, 2020). This argument has been also put forward in the emerging scholarship on the software algorithms (e.g.…”

Assessing co-creation in strategic planning for urban energy transitions

“…The social acceptability 1 of renewable energy has been a rising issue since the 1990s, when the sector started attracting increasing capital investments. This has particularly been the case in front-runner countries like Denmark, where the increasing commercialization and industrialization of wind energy stands in stark contrast to the locally operated wind cooperatives of the early years [19,20]. The social acceptability of renewable energy is a complex phenomenon with three major dimensions: the micro-social, the meso-political, and the macroeconomic [21].…”