Towards a comprehensive policy for electricity from renewable energy: An approach for policy design

Iychettira, Kaveri K.; Hakvoort, Rudi A.; Llamas, Pedro Linares

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2017.03.051

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“…The authors use the framework to analyze strengths and weaknesses of existing institutions and identify critical intervention points to reinforce or build institutions that promote a "clean energy transition." Additionally, Iychettira et al [19] apply the IAD framework to understand the design and impact of governmental support schemes for renewable energy sources for electricity (RES-E). By distinguishing action situations at the level of government and energy producers, they use the IAD framework as basis for a simulation how support schemes for RES-E (developed by governments) impact investment in RES-E (by energy producers).…”

Section: A Dynamic Framework For Institutional Changementioning

confidence: 99%

“…By distinguishing action situations at the level of government and energy producers, they use the IAD framework as basis for a simulation how support schemes for RES-E (developed by governments) impact investment in RES-E (by energy producers). This allows an understanding how specific support schemes (e.g., the German Premium Tariff or the British Contract for Differences schemes) contribute to renewable electricity targets [19].…”

Section: A Dynamic Framework For Institutional Changementioning

confidence: 99%

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Understanding the role of values in institutional change: the case of the energy transition

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The current transition towards low-carbon energy systems does not only involve changes in technologies but is also shaped by changes in the rules and regulations (i.e., the institutions) that govern energy systems. Institutional change can be influenced by changes in core values-normative principles such as affordability, security of supply, and sustainability. Analyzing this influence, however, has been hindered by the absence of a structured framework that highlights the role of values in institutional change processes. This paper presents an interdisciplinary framework explicating how values influence institutional change in the case of the energy transition. We build on a dynamic framework for institutional change that combines the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework with the concept of social learning. This basic analytical framework is expanded by conceptualizations of values in moral philosophy, institutional economics, and social psychology. Our framework offers researchers and policy makers an analytical tool to identify how values are embedded in infrastructure and existing regulation and how values shape communities and behavior. It explains how value controversies can trigger social learning processes that eventually can result in structural change. Thus, this framework allows analyzing institutional change over time as well as comparing change patterns across spatial and temporal contexts.

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Section: A Dynamic Framework For Institutional Changementioning

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Section: A Dynamic Framework For Institutional Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the role of values in institutional change: the case of the energy transition

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“…As Ostrom [95] noted, frameworks shape diagnostic and prescriptive analyses that provide organizing devices to identify components that establish a system, but frameworks do not illustrate how diverse components of the system interact. As an adaptable analytical tool for studying different social phenomena, the IAD framework can be used to systematically analyze relevant variables and components common to different social situations and illustrate factors likely to affect policy outcomes in a particular situation [94,96,97]. The core unit of analysis in the IAD framework is the action arena, which characterizes actors, action situations, strategies and interactions to unify and direct resources toward particular outcomes [98].…”

Section: Iad Framework Adapted To Social Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Innovation for Sustainability: The Case of Oil Producing Communities in the Niger Delta region

Omobhude

Chen

2019

Sustainability

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This study demonstrates how social innovation may engender development as well as peace in deep-rooted poverty and conflict regions in the Niger Delta context. By means of a qualitative study involving oil producing communities in the Niger Delta, this study identifies the dynamics, relevant actors and factors that foster social innovation, creating particular socio-economic outcomes, and contributes to the role of institutions in this context. Our findings suggest that active stakeholders’ engagement, facilitation and contributions from key actors significantly influences the quality of economic and social outcomes, but not necessarily environmental outcomes. This allows us to advance the theory on social innovation by analyzing the mechanisms through which social intervention processes may alter the lives of ordinary community members in areas where social and economic interventions are seriously required.

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“…Exceptions are Delmas and Montes‐Sancho () and Lutz, Fischer, Newig, and Lang (), who analyze factors which lead to the adoption of renewable energy policies in American states and in the German regions, or Feiock and West (), who look at explanations for the implementation of policies in the domain of waste management. Furthermore, some studies consider instruments after their implementation with regard to their comprehensiveness (Iychettira, Hakvoort, & Linares, ) and/or effectiveness (Menz & Vachon, ; Persson, ; Shrimali & Kniefel, ; Yin & Powers, ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Factors Driving the Promotion of Hydroelectricity: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Kammermann

2017

Review of Policy Research

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In the wake of the COP21 conference in Paris, the transition to a low-carbon energy supply remains a central issue on the political agenda. The deployment of renewable energies is often challenged by multiple issues (e.g., public acceptance, landscape protection, and so forth). Political actors try to overcome such challenges with various measures; however, the policy instruments used vary greatly in their strength. This article questions what factors lead to the adoption of strong policy instruments promoting hydroelectricity. Explanatory factors are derived from Kingdon's multiple streams framework and are analyzed with fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis within the Swiss cantons. The findings show that the strength of policy promoting hydroelectricity depends on the conjunction of mainly two factors: ambitious climate targets and an already well-established hydroelectricity sector that generates large tax revenues for the cantons. Depending on the context, the strength of left-wing and green parties as well as the current level of exploitation play an important role with the aforementioned factors.

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Towards a comprehensive policy for electricity from renewable energy: An approach for policy design

Cited by 36 publications

References 27 publications

Understanding the role of values in institutional change: the case of the energy transition

Understanding the role of values in institutional change: the case of the energy transition

Social Innovation for Sustainability: The Case of Oil Producing Communities in the Niger Delta region

Factors Driving the Promotion of Hydroelectricity: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

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