Who wins in renewable energy? Evidence from Europe and the United States

Kelsey, Nina; Meckling, Jonas

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2017.08.003

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“…Also, national energy policies such as the regulation of the electricity market matter for the development of community energy: Low barriers to grid connection [16] as well as the opening of electricity markets for (small) companies and the promotion of competition (e.g., by liberalization and unbundling) [15] are mentioned as enabling factors for community energy. However, Kelsey and Meckling [45] found support and electricity market policy to be less important and argue that other factors such as resource endowments, relative technology prices, and the market effects of technological disruption determine which type of actors dominate the energy transition in a country.…”

Section: National Context Conditions For Renewable Energy and Energy mentioning

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How municipalities support energy cooperatives: survey results from Germany and Switzerland

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Background: Energy cooperatives are a prominent and common form of community energy. Community energy has the potential to increase actor diversity and local acceptance of renewable energies and has therefore been highlighted to be conducive to energy transitions. While research has recognized the importance of both the national and the local governance levels for community energy, it remains unclear how these two levels are related. Against this backdrop, this paper investigates how municipalities support energy cooperatives at the local level and how this support is related to national context conditions. Methods: The study takes a quantitative approach using own survey data from Germany and Switzerland. Based on a typology of municipal support, we compare limiting factors and municipal support for energy cooperatives between the two countries as well as between energy cooperatives with and without municipal membership. By means of this two-tiered comparison, we analyze how municipal support is related to national contexts, specifically regarding national energy policies, and to municipal involvement in the cooperatives. Results: Our analysis shows that municipal support can benefit energy cooperatives as it addresses some of the major limiting factors for energy cooperatives in Germany and Switzerland. However, our data suggest that municipalities only specifically address cooperatives' limitations with support measures if they are a member in the cooperative. This indicates that organizational involvement of a municipality in energy cooperatives leads to a more targeted support compared to non-members and thus is beneficial to meet the specific cooperatives' challenges due to national energy policy. Conclusions: Cooperatives can benefit from municipal support, especially if the municipality is a cooperative member. Municipal support is likely to become even more important for energy cooperatives in the future, due to reduced national support for renewable energies in Germany and Switzerland. On their part, municipalities can benefit from collaborating with energy cooperatives, as they gain an additional instrument to implement municipal energy policy. Hence, supporting and seeking membership in energy cooperatives appear to be adequate strategies for municipalities to foster a decentralized energy transition.

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Section: National Context Conditions For Renewable Energy and Energy mentioning

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“…1. Who "wins" or has visible influence over outcomes? (Fuchs, 2007;Kelsey and Meckling, 2018;Lukes, 2005) -Success in achieving stated policy goals 2. Is there overt coercion or manipulation?…”

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“…Historically dominated by politically powerful centralized energy interests, western energy systems are increasingly integrating new, decentralized actors (Burke and Stephens, 2017a;Koirala et al, 2016). The majority of these new actors are commercial renewable energy (RE) producers who operate according to profit maximizing business models (Kelsey and Meckling, 2018). However, there is a growing market segment controlled by city, municipal, community and co-operative groups (Creamer et al, 2018;REN21, 2017).…”

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“…These questions have been the subject of intense academic and industry speculation (e.g., Burke and Stephens, 2017a;Geels, 2014;International Energy Agency, 2015;Royal Dutch Shell, 2013;Stirling, 2014). However, there has been little empirical testing (Kelsey and Meckling, 2018;Raven et al, 2016). The framework developed in this paper is intended to generate empirical evidence on the consequences of shifting energy ownership and policy dynamics through the larger Powershifts project.…”

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Powershifts: A framework for assessing the growing impact of decentralized ownership of energy transitions on political decision-making

Brisbois

2019

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…The modernisation-related challenges faced by the Polish power sector must both effectively ensure the energy security of the state and its competitiveness, and satisfy the requirements of sustainable development [5][6][7][8]. What is equally important is that all modernisation-oriented efforts need to be goaled at renewable energy sources [5].…”

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Analysis of selected aspects of energy sector - case study from Skierniewice, Poland

Tucki

Bączyk

Lelonkiewicz

2018

Engineering for Rural Development

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Abstract. The aim of the paper was to analyse selected aspects of the energy sector in Poland. We analysed conventional methods of electric power production and provided an overview of conventional main activity electricity producers in Poland. The work contains a presentation of selected modernisation projects from the energy sector, characterisation of distribution system operators and analysis of the thermal power sector in Poland. Additionally, the article describes an enterprise operating in the thermal power engineering sector. The case study presented encompasses characterisation of a district heating plant located in Skierniewice, analysis of the heat generation process and description of the heat network programme. The study was based on literature, research and statistical data as well as on data provided by a thermal energy company LLC seated in Skierniewice. Additionally, employees of the company were interviewed during a site visit in the plant. The analysis of the thermal energy company LLC in Skierniewice allows us to conclude that the operation of undertakings specialising in the production of heat, which is to be used to heat buildings and supply hot water, differs depending on the quarter of the year, with 2 quarters of intense production (quarter I and IV -heating season) and 2 quarters of a reduced demand (quarter II and III -summer season).What is more, the company is required to comply with stringent standards for air pollutant emission. As a result of the above, there is a need for investments, which will have lower impact on the environment and will be performed in accordance with applicable regulations. In addition, the investments and modernisations aim to improve the efficiency of the equipment, reduce losses in the transmission of heat energy and enhance reliability of devices, all with a positive effect on the financial condition of the company.Keywords: power industry, power plants, conventional energy, heat. IntroductionIn this day and age, when a joint climate and energy policy is being pursued by the European Union [1-4], optimisation of the energy sector is necessary in order to reduce the emission of dusts, carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides. The modernisation-related challenges faced by the Polish power sector must both effectively ensure the energy security of the state and its competitiveness, and satisfy the requirements of sustainable development [5][6][7][8]. What is equally important is that all modernisation-oriented efforts need to be goaled at renewable energy sources [5]. Over 40 % of all power units operated in Poland are older than 30 years, of which more than 15 % already exceeded the age boundary of 50 and should be deactivated without undue delay [9].It is estimated that approximately PLN 150-200 billion will be needed in the upcoming 15 years to carry out investments in new power units or to modernise the existing ones. Therefore, no wonder that financing such substantial investments from own funds may turn out to be too great a burden for the owners of the pla...

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Who wins in renewable energy? Evidence from Europe and the United States

Cited by 50 publications

References 45 publications

How municipalities support energy cooperatives: survey results from Germany and Switzerland

How municipalities support energy cooperatives: survey results from Germany and Switzerland

Powershifts: A framework for assessing the growing impact of decentralized ownership of energy transitions on political decision-making

Analysis of selected aspects of energy sector - case study from Skierniewice, Poland

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