Energiewende als Herausforderung der Koordination im Mehrebenensystem

Ohlhorst, Dörte; Tews, Kerstin; Schreurs, Miranda A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-06788-5_6

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“…Ohlhorst, Tews, & Schreurs, 2013). Only recently has the political relevance of European policies for the German energy transition been given much higher political attention -enforced, of course, by the conspicuous signals given by actors at the European level.…”

Section: Implications For the German Energy Transition Processmentioning

confidence: 97%

Europeanization of Energy and Climate Policy

Tews

2015

The Journal of Environment & Development

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In the course of the post-2020 climate and energy policy framework debate, the European Commission opened a new round in tackling a longstanding governance dilemma between European market integration and member states' discretion to develop policies according to domestically legitimized preferences. Motivated by ensuring welfare gains from an internal market, the attempts at the European Union level to strictly harmonize national support schemes for renewables ignore costs induced by the heterogeneity of preferences in member states. This article argues for a more flexible approach in coordinating respective energy policies: It might be reasonable to consider more strictly harmonized support schemes for large-scale projects of European relevance. However, there is still a need for less harmonized policies in order to give the necessary room for experimentation with innovations suited to the diverse member states' preferences and societal risk perceptions.

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Section: Implications For the German Energy Transition Processmentioning

confidence: 97%

Europeanization of Energy and Climate Policy

Tews

2015

The Journal of Environment & Development

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“…In addition, the federal system in Germany offers many opportunities to develop social and institutional innovations for energy transition at the municipal level [31,32]. Constitutionally-guaranteed municipal self-administration is the basis for an active local energy policy [33].…”

Section: Municipal Utilities As Key Actors Of Energy Transition and Amentioning

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The Incumbents’ Conservation Strategies in the German Energy Regime as an Impediment to Re-Municipalization—An Analysis Guided by the Multi-Level Perspective

2016

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Abstract:After two decades of privatization and outsourcing being the dominant trends across public services, an inclination towards founding new municipal power utilities can be observed. In this article, the authors examine the preservation strategies of the German energy regime following the transition approach developed by Geels. From the multi-level perspective, it can be stated that innovations take place in niches and have to overcome the obstacles and persistence of the conventional fossil-nuclear energy regime. Through an empirical analysis, it can be concluded that the established regime significantly delays the decentralization process required for a transformation of energy structures on local electricity grids. Furthermore, it is shown that municipal utilities (Stadtwerke) are important key actors for the German Energiewende (energy transition) as they function as local energy distributors and they meet a variety of requirements to promote fundamental structural change. The trend towards re-municipalization and the re-establishment of municipal utilities reveal the desire to further strengthen the scope of local politics.

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“…To that end, the Bundesländer are equipped with broad rights to act and execute national and European regulation. In the German Bundesländer (Baden-Württemberg, Berlin, Schleswig-Holstein and a number of other Bundesländer), climate mitigation has been achieved through promotion of renewable energy (Ohlhorst et al 2013) and energy conservation in the building and housing sector. Interestingly, climate and energy policies were already in place much earlier in the Bundesländer (Jörgensen 2012b) as compared to the federal level.…”

Section: Germanymentioning

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“…However, modes and forms of climate governance in Germany are not always mutually reinforcing or simply a consequence of cooperative federalism. A number of publications have recently examined conflicting interests between the central government and the Länder in Germany's climate policy and particularly the Energiewende (energy transition) (Ohlhorst et al 2013). Redistributive top-down climate mitigation strategies which interfere with regional interests are likely to be confronted by political obstruction by subnational policy-makers (Monstadt 2014).…”

Section: Germanymentioning

confidence: 99%