The political economy of clean energy transitions

Sustainable energy transitions involve the shift of resources between competing industrial sectors and political constituencies. Stakeholders in this process have varying degrees of political and economic power, and understanding how political economic factors influence clean energy transitions is crucial to effective policy formulation and facilitating transitions to sustainable energy systems.

This project seeks to contribute to enhanced understanding of these factors.

Video introduction to the project

Channing Arndt, Senior Research Fellow of UNU-WIDER, presents the thinking behind this project and the study of implementation of clean energy policies. 

TEAM

Focal points: Channing Arndt, Finn Tarp

Research fellow: ​Nadia Ouedraogo

Assistant: Anne Ruohonen

Communications: Annett Victorero

 

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    The political economy of clean energy
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    The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions

    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The 21st Conference of the...

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    Understanding indicator choice for the assessment of RD&D financing of low-carbon energy technologies

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    Do political economy factors matter in explaining the increase in the production of bioenergy?

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    Is feed-in-tariff policy effective for increasing deployment of renewable energy in Indonesia?

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    The political economy of energy innovation

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    Varieties of clean energy transitions in Europe

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    Support policies for renewables

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    The history and politics of energy transitions

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    Introduction and Synthesis

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    The history and politics of energy transitions

    According to some definitions, an energy transition refers to the time that elapses between the introduction of a new primary energy source, or prime mover, and its rise to claiming a substantial share of the overall market. According to one academic...

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    The political economy of energy transitions and thermal energy poverty

    Indonesia and South Africa are both trying address energy poverty through subsidized energy provision. South Africa has implemented one of the largest electrification programmes in the world, and 80 per cent of the population now have access to the...

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    The linkages of energy, water, and land use in Southeast Asia

    This paper aims to contribute to understanding the existing knowledge gaps in the linkages of energy, water, and land use in Southeast Asia and explores the political economy of energy transition in the Mekong region (MR). Investigating the struggle...

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    Is feed-in-tariff policy effective for increasing deployment of renewable energy in Indonesia?

    To accelerate the deployment of renewable energy technologies and to secure the electricity supply, the Government of Indonesia has issued several feed-in-tariff regulations for various renewable energy sources, which were previously predominated by...

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    The legal configuration of hydrocarbon infrastructure

    The United States’ greenhouse gas mitigation strategy decentralizes mitigation responsibility to the states and states have primary regulatory jurisdiction over electrical power utilities. Using the biophysical approach, this paper introduces the...

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    The political economy of clean energy transitions at sub-national level

    This paper examines the political economy aspects, particularly the influence of the Clean Development Mechanism, in clean energy and climate change policies in the states of Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. The different mechanisms for...

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