‘Energy regions’: The transformative power of regional discourses on socio-technical futures

Späth, Philipp; Rohracher, Harald

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2010.01.017

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“…A further characteristic of urban and regional sustainability transition policies is that they are typically aimed at combining ecological goals with economic competitiveness, often termed green growth (Hodson and Marvin 2009;Späth and Rohracher 2010). A main way in which this dual focus materialises is through policies aimed at stimulating industrial development of cleantech industries (Carvalho et al 2012;McCauley and Stephens 2012).…”

Section: Sustainability Transitions and Place Specificitymentioning

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The geography of sustainability transitions: Review, synthesis and reflections on an emergent research field

Hansen

Coenen

2015

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

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Section: Sustainability Transitions and Place Specificitymentioning

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The geography of sustainability transitions: Review, synthesis and reflections on an emergent research field

Hansen

Coenen

2015

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

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“…Ein Beispiel hierfür sind Energieregionen, die durch regionale Kooperationen und Diskurse konstruiert werden (Späth und Rohracher, 2010 (Lormes, 2016). Es gibt verschiedene Formen von Rekommunalisierungen und Wege, wie diese realisiert werden können (Bauer, 2012 (Becker et al, 2012:26f.).…”

Section: Politics Of Scale Der Deutschen Energiewendeunclassified

“…Stichworte wie dezentrale Energiesysteme in ländlichen Räumen (Gailing und Röhring, 2015), die Entwicklung von Energieregionen (Späth und Rohracher, 2010), die Gründung von Bioenergiedörfern (von Bock und Polach et al, 2015), Rekommunalisierungen städtischer Energieversorger (Becker et al, 2016) oder BürgerInnen-Energie bzw. Community Energy (Radtke, 2016;Seyfang et al, 2013) stehen für eine Entwicklung hin zu kleinteiligeren, stärker als bisher lokal organisierten Formen der Energieversorgung.…”

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Rescaling Energy? Räumliche Neuordnungen in der deutschen Energiewende

Becker¹,

Naumann²

2017

Geogr. Helv.

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Kurzfassung. The German energy transition is not only characterized by wide technological changes but also by spatial restructuring. The decentralization of energy supply potentially increases the importance of the regional or local scale. The Anglo-American debate on the Politics of Scale addresses the production and transformation of scale while energy issues have not yet been systematically addressed. This paper combines the theoretical paradigms of scale, rescaling and scalar strategies with empirical examples from the German energy transition. Using the cases of energy regions, remunicipalizations and social movements, the implications of the German energy transition are analyzed regarding the role of scale. The paper argues that the perspective of the Politics of Scale can contribute not only to a better understanding of the different dimensions of energy transitions but also to critical energy geographies in general.

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“…Government forecasts indicate revenue in excess of 80 Â 10 9 euros from the project over a twenty-five year period, allowing them to cut national debt by an initial 15 Â 10 9 euros. Solar energy specialization would allow for the exportation of a skills pool, as well as technology, to neighboring states and allow Greece to rebuild its tarnished reputation as a regional leader in renewable energy technology (Spath and Rohracher, 2010).…”

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Pandora’s box: Photovoltaic energy and economic crisis in Greece

Knight

Bell

2013

Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. The Greek photovoltaic program was launched in 2006 and rebranded in 2011 as a way to repay debt and decrease national deficit. The scheme promotes new livelihood opportunities on all levels, from micro-scale home installations to macro-scale solar parks producing energy for international export. Offering potential economic stability to a nation at the fore of global neoliberal crisis, solar energy also presents an alternative to petroleum and lignite that currently dominate the energy sector. However, there are many hesitations and conflicting rhetorics surrounding the photovoltaic drive. Its success or failure as a sustainable economic pathway lies as much in understanding local nuances of social relations and historical consciousness as in governmental policy. This paper presents the findings from preliminary research that aims to "scale" all levels of the Greek photovoltaic experience and raises questions of energy policy, neoliberal rationale, and the relationship between local and global socioeconomic systems. It considers the everyday cultural complexities of implementing energy policy and assesses the contribution of an ethnographic approach to interdisciplinary energy research.

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‘Energy regions’: The transformative power of regional discourses on socio-technical futures

Cited by 301 publications

References 27 publications

The geography of sustainability transitions: Review, synthesis and reflections on an emergent research field

The geography of sustainability transitions: Review, synthesis and reflections on an emergent research field

Rescaling Energy? Räumliche Neuordnungen in der deutschen Energiewende

Pandora’s box: Photovoltaic energy and economic crisis in Greece

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