Renovation realities: Actors, institutional work and the struggle to transform Finnish energy policy

Kainiemi, Laura; Karhunmaa, Kamilla; Eloneva, Sanni

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2020.101778

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“…Already today some of the Finnish energy expert stakeholders concur in assigning a more active role to consumers (Toivanen et al, 2017). Moreover, a green transition coalitionalthough not internally uniform -has been formed, affecting Finnish climate and energy policy (Haukkala, 2018;Kainiemi et al, 2020;Varho et al, 2016). However, the current prosumer base is rather thin in Finland, although the Energy Authority (2020) recently reported increasing small-scale electricity generation among households.…”

Section: From Acceptability and Acceptance To Active Behavioral Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy Transition in the Baltic Sea Region

Karimi¹,

Rodi²

2022

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The climate urgency requires us to transition to an efficient, renewables based economy as soon as possible. This book is a welcome and timely contribution to the energy transition policy discourse in the Baltic Sea region. I am sure the experiences and best practices from across cities, regions and states will inspire action far beyond the region."Krista Mikkonen, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change of Finland "We already know that decarbonizing our economies at the pace and scale called for by climate science will face unprecedented obstacles. Increasingly, however, we are discovering that the greatest obstacle may not be a dearth of technological solutions or finance, but one of public opinion: whether expressed in the form of localised resistance against renewable energy projects or rejection of national climate action by a wavering electorate, lacking social acceptance threatens to undermine progress towards the necessary energy transition. Drawing on a region that offers pioneering insights, the diverse group of authors represented in this book offers a unique perspective and valuable lessons on perhaps the most intractable climate policy challenge yet."

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Section: From Acceptability and Acceptance To Active Behavioral Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy Transition in the Baltic Sea Region

Karimi¹,

Rodi²

2022

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“…Municipalities are in direct contact with local stakeholders and play an important role in the transition from carbon-based energy to renewable energy systems (Kostevšek et al, 2016). National energy strategies provide normative and legislative structures that maintain (or try to disrupt) the legitimized energy system by providing guidelines, rules, and research, as well as funding opportunities (Kainiemi et al, 2020). Following the above logic, we consider that municipal, meso-level actors construct their energy roles (Wittmayer et al, 2017) inside a framework of institutionalized-legal, social, economic, knowledge, and belief systems (Press et al, 2014).…”

Section: Municipal Energy Transitionsmentioning

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Ideologies in Energy Transition: Community Discourses on Renewables

Berg¹,

Narayan²,

Rajala³

2021

TIM Review

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“…Other actors present in the debate and publishing energy scenarios include industry organizations, environmental NGOs, and academia [47]. It is commonly acknowledged that scenarios often reflect their publishers' interests: for example, scenarios by industry organizations tend towards higher consumption, and scenarios by environmental NGOs towards lower consumption [71].…”

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Fictional expectations in energy scenarios and implications for bottom-up planning models

Göke¹,

Weibezahn²,

Hirschhausen³

2021

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The evolution of renewable energy demonstrates that development of energy systems is not a deterministic process dictated by technology but equally shaped by societal and cultural forces. Key instruments in this process are energy scenarios that describe hypothetical future systems and pathways from the present to this future. Against this background, this paper transfers the sociological concept of fictional expectations to energy scenarios capturing how scenarios, although these are not accurate forecasts, are treated by actors "as-if" and serve as a basis for seemingly rational decisions regarding an unknowable future. As a result, different scenarios compete for credibility to influence decision-making and steer development of the energy system in their favor.These insights on energy scenarios are applied to draw consequences for developing and applying bottom-up planning models, the quantitative tool energy scenarios generally build on. The paper concludes that bottom-up planning models should be open and accessible, minimize and be transparent about bias, aim for a large scope to be policy relevant, not apply stochastic methods just for the sake of adding complexity, and limit the representation of non-technical factors to input assumptions and the interpretation of results.

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Renovation realities: Actors, institutional work and the struggle to transform Finnish energy policy

Cited by 20 publications

References 72 publications

Energy Transition in the Baltic Sea Region

Energy Transition in the Baltic Sea Region

Ideologies in Energy Transition: Community Discourses on Renewables

Fictional expectations in energy scenarios and implications for bottom-up planning models

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