Towards a political economy framework for wind power: Does China break the mould?

Davidson, Michael R.; Kahrl, Fredrich; Karplus, Valerie J.

doi:10.35188/unu-wider/2016/075-1

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“…retailers) in newly created markets. In this case, a too muscular form of party statism-which penetrates deeply into economic realms and leaves limited room for regulatory independence (Davidson et al, 2017)-affirms the state infrastructural power in terms of accruing capital in the early stage of market creation but simultaneously challenges it in the later stage of market expansion and integration.…”

Section: Interscalar Rearranging In and For Decarbonizationmentioning

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State infrastructural power through scalar practices: On China’s decarbonization endeavors

2023

Environ Plan A

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To offer a fresh angle on the state capacity to advance decarbonization, this article brings into dialog political economies of scale and the Mannian notion of state infrastructural power, animating this conceptual cross-fertilization with an analysis of China’s evolving policy framework for decarbonization. This article begins with building the conceptual construct of scalar practice as a source of state infrastructural power and categorizing three key scalar practices, namely, interscalar rearranging, interregional reshuffling, and urban‒rural scalar mixing. Building upon this, the article critically evaluates China’s policy framework and state actions against the notion of infrastructural power: the Chinese state applies noncoercive means to elicit support, extract resources, and coordinate actions while transitioning to decarbonization-driven accumulation regimes, and these noncoercive means are mobilized together with coercive means through the art of scalar structuration that (re)defines central–local, urban‒rural, and interregional relations. Overall, this study elucidates how state-orchestrated processes of (re)territorialization for the decarbonization agenda give rise to the expansion of the state’s autonomous power in relation to civil society, albeit in a manner that manifests contested power struggle and conflicting internal logics.

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Section: Interscalar Rearranging In and For Decarbonizationmentioning

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State infrastructural power through scalar practices: On China’s decarbonization endeavors

2023

Environ Plan A

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“…Much has been written about the challenges encountered by China's central government in implementing policies, notably those relating to energy and the environment (e.g. Davidson et al, 2017;Chen, 2019). Many of these challenges arise from current or longstanding structural features unavoidable in such a large country.…”

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How May National Culture Shape Public Policy? The Case of Energy Policy in China

Andrews‐Speed¹

2022

The Energy Journal

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This paper explores how aspects of national culture may shape the design and implementation of public policy, using the example of energy policy in China. It focuses on cognitive style and on political and legal culture. China's energy policies display a combination of pragmatism, incrementalism, internal contradiction and ambiguity. This is consistent with evidence from experimental psychology and history that the development of Chinese and East Asian cognitive styles have taken a path distinct from those of Western civilizations with their Greek philosophical heritage. These variations of cognitive style between cultures are reflected in brain function and genes. Policy implementation also bears features from imperial times in the political culture of China's Communist Party and the contemporary legal system. These arguments reinforce existing calls for caution when seeking to transfer energy or other public policy approaches between countries with different cultures.

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“…Kahrl et al (2013) reviewed the history of power operation mechanism in China and stated that the benefits reallocation among generators with different ownerships will result in political and economic challenges. Davidson et al (2016a) developed a political economy framework to analyse the challenges of high-share wind power integration and identified obstacles related to the economic transfers among wind generators and conventional generators, central-local government relationships, and cost-benefit allocation under a more integrated regional dispatch scheme. Hurlbut et al (2017) compared the cross-border electricity trading in China and the USA and stated that the administrative planning of the network power exchange, pricing and trading rules are the main challenges of reforming the power operation mechanism.…”

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Reforming the Operation Mechanism of Chinese Electricity System: Benefits, Challenges and Possible Solutions

Chen¹,

Chyong²,

Mi³

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The Energy Journal

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A new wave of electricity market reform was launched by the Chinese government in March 2015, and one of its major objectives was to optimize the power system operation by reforming the low-efficient equal share dispatch mechanism. To provide scientific decision-making support for the current reform, we establish a mixed-integer linear programming optimization model to simulate the post-reform results, and the reform benefits are subsequently estimated by comparing those results with the pre-reform results. Then, we develop a political economy framework to identify the challenges associated with implementation of economic dispatch. At last, we propose several regulatory and market measures to address these identified challenges.

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Towards a political economy framework for wind power: Does China break the mould?

Cited by 4 publications

References 37 publications

State infrastructural power through scalar practices: On China’s decarbonization endeavors

State infrastructural power through scalar practices: On China’s decarbonization endeavors

How May National Culture Shape Public Policy? The Case of Energy Policy in China

Reforming the Operation Mechanism of Chinese Electricity System: Benefits, Challenges and Possible Solutions

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