Determinants of subnational party positions on electricity grid expansion in Germany: Economic over political interests

Fink, Simon; Bartels, Jan‐Eric; Hagendorf, Winona; Klinger, Niklas

doi:10.1016/j.jup.2019.05.007

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“…Whereas the positions of the Green party in the two Länder where they hold the ministry of transport can indeed be summarised as rail-friendly and rather road-critical, such a categorisation is not possible for all other parties. Here, the positions of the individual Land parties vary between rail-oriented and road-affirmative also in response to perceived regional complexities and problems (for a similar finding with respect to electricity grid expansion see Fink, Bartels et al 2019).…”

Section: Programmatic Positionmentioning

confidence: 80%

“…An example form the Saarland might illustrate this point: 'The car industry, including its suppliers, is the largest employer in the Saarland and provides employment and a livelihood to a zillion of people [...] Especially in the rural regions of our Land, the car remains an indispensable part of our mobility needs.' (SPD Saarland 2012) This emphasises that policy positions are Land specific, rather than party-family specific, and react to the respective economic circumstances (Kropp 2010, p. 75;Heinemann et al 2015, p. 681;Fink, Bartels et al 2019).…”

Section: Programmatic Positionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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On Track or Off The Rails?

Rademann¹

2022

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Vorpommern TH ThüringenData and code for the QCA can be accessed under the following link: https://data.goettingen-research-online.de/dataverse/rademann_bvwp2030 Please note, that for reasons of confidentiality interview audios, transcripts, and notes are not made public.1.1 Studying ministerial decision-making ... 25The BVWP also includes projects for waterways. These are disregarded here as I explain in chapter 4. Neither air transport nor bicycle lanes are part of the BVWP.The senator responsible for transport in the government resulting from the 2011 election was no party member. Given the fact, that the government was an SPD one-party government, it nevertheless seems safe to use the SPD programme as a proxy.

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Section: Programmatic Positionmentioning

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Section: Programmatic Positionmentioning

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Rademann¹

2022

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“…Explicit mentions of costs mainly framed the issue in a positive light, referring mostly to citizens' acceptance as a necessity for energy infrastructure expansion and energy transition more broadly. Apart from the positive framing of regional redistribution, which was voiced by the prime minister of Mecklenburg‐Western Pomerania (on grid expansion conflicts between the Länder , see Fink et al, 2019), the question of who would bear how much of the cost surplus was not raised and thus remained open. The new distributive scheme was not discussed in any detail, but compared to the earlier planning scheme, it would lead to (a) a substantial relief for most locals living close to new direct current lines, (b) no relief for locals living close to new rotary current lines, and (c) higher electricity prices for all energy consumers.…”

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The game of energy transition: A game theoretical perspective on public participation procedures in infrastructure planning

Ruffing,

Brendler

2023

European Policy Analysis

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For energy transition, infrastructure construction is often indispensable but also contested and potentially problematic for social cohesion. Through a game theoretical lens, we examine the basic configuration of infrastructure conflicts. Informed by the empirical example of German electricity grid planning, we discuss three approaches to resolve multilevel infrastructure conflicts, (1) technocratic decision‐making, (2) participatory decision‐making, and (3) redistribution and compensation, as well as the conditions under which we can expect them to mitigate conflicts. Each of the three approaches has been tried out in German grid planning over time, which allows us to analyze whether the respective conditions were met and why the approaches were (not) able to resolve existing conflicts. We demonstrate that enduring conflicts in German grid expansion are not caused by a fundamentally ill‐defined decision‐making procedure but rather by a particularly “wicked” conflict structure that can hardly be resolved within planning procedures.

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“…Societal reactions to wind energy should not just be perceived as a constraint for the transition to its use, but local circumstances need to be integrated in the planning process of future energy systems with high ratios of renewable energy [34]. In case of the required electricity grid expansion, conflicts often occur about the route of planned projects or questions about the need of specific grid expansion projects in general [35]. The debate about transmission grid expansion includes arguments for more decentralized electricity systems to increase participation and acceptance by reducing the number of transmission expansion projects needed [36,37].…”

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Addressing the Effect of Social Acceptance on the Distribution of Wind Energy Plants and the Transmission Grid in Germany

2021

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Social acceptance is increasingly becoming a limiting factor in implementing the energy transition in Germany. From today’s perspective, the expansion of wind energy and future transmission grids is only somewhat a technical or economic challenge rather than a social one. Since political decisions on the energy system transformation are often derived from findings of energy system modeling, it seems necessary to increasingly integrate the effects of socio-ecological aspects, such as acceptance issues in energy models. In this paper, an approach is introduced to address effects of social acceptance in energy system models by comparing the influence of different distribution scenarios of wind energy in Germany on the expansion need for future transmission lines. The results show that a socio-ecologic distribution of onshore wind installations according to a balanced burden of the German society does not reduce the grid expansion need significantly compared to an economic siting. An actual reduction of planned transmission grids could just be achieved by a more decentral scenario, including decentral market design. The sensitivity of regionalization is an opportunity to consider local acceptance issues within energy system models and should move more into focus inside the procedure of the current grid development process in Germany.

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Determinants of subnational party positions on electricity grid expansion in Germany: Economic over political interests

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The game of energy transition: A game theoretical perspective on public participation procedures in infrastructure planning

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