Europeanization of Energy and Climate Policy

Tews, Kerstin

doi:10.1177/1070496515591578

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“…Strunz, Gawel, and Lechmann [47] underline that the energy policy in the EU, on the whole, is diverse; some aspects are decentralized (e.g., nuclear policy), whilst some very Europeanized. Various researchers treat the energy policy Europeanization as the internal process within the EU [21,22], whilst some researchers try to focus on its external dimensions regarding non-EU member states. Samkharadze [9] observed that Georgia is affected by the EU energy policy.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: Europeanization Processes Of the Eu Energy Policymentioning

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Europeanization Processes of the EU Energy Policy in Visegrad Countries in the Years 2005–2018

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Energy issues are sensitive for the four Visegrad countries as European Union (EU) member states; thus, this area’s convergence might be problematic for these countries. There is a clear research gap concerning the processes of Europeanization of the energy policy in the Visegrad countries. This article aims to identify and evaluate the progress of four Visegrad countries (V4) in implementing the EU energy goals in the context of the Europeanization. The article uses three main methods: Hellwig’s method, Kendall’s rank concordance coefficient, and k-means clustering. These calculations will allow one to study the Europeanization processes, which means checking the gamma convergence. For calculations, we use the available statistical data from Eurostat for the years 2005–2018. Poland and other Central European countries, including Czechia, and Hungary, largely depend on coal for their energy needs. The empirical results have shown that there have been no significant changes in the classification of EU countries in terms of their fulfillment of the EU climate and energy targets in the analyzed period. This is the case in all EU member states, including the Visegrad Group countries, but except for Poland. This means that the level of Europeanization of the energy policy and its effectiveness is similar in all member states except for Poland, which is becoming a kind of the exception. Throughout the investigating period, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia were close to meeting the set targets and could be rated high compared to the EU countries. Poland, especially since 2015, has been noticeably and increasingly distanced from the other V4 countries. It can be perceived as a gradual drift away from Europeanization of the EU climate and energy policy in Poland.

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Section: Theoretical Framework: Europeanization Processes Of the Eu Energy Policymentioning

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Europeanization Processes of the EU Energy Policy in Visegrad Countries in the Years 2005–2018

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“…In 2014, the German government decided to switch from a price-based to a volume-based support scheme. This fundamental instrumental shift was "forced" by external pressure (EU-Commission's State Aid Guidelines [3]) on the one side, but also by domestic debates about the affordability of the energy transition and the increasing costs of RE deployment on the other side (for more details on drivers and implications of this instrumental shift, see [4]).…”

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The Crash of a Policy Pilot to Legally Define Community Energy. Evidence from the German Auction Scheme

Tews

2018

Sustainability

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“Community energy” is a highly contested issue not only in the German energy transition governance but also in the recent legislative procedure to recast energy market legislation within the EU’s “Winter Package”. This paper analyses the effects of the privileges for “community energy actors” in the German auction scheme for on-shore wind energy. Those privileges aim to guarantee a level playing field for small actors and to enhance societal acceptance. The results of the first rounds of auctions did not merely reveal an acceptable level of losses due to recognized trade-offs between policy objectives. Instead, the results indicate a complete failure regarding all three objectives of the revised support scheme for renewables—controlled renewable energy expansion, actor plurality and cost efficiency. The paper discusses whether the policy motivations translate appropriately into legislation. It suggests differentiating clearly the economic risks for small actors from the added value that is attributed to community energy actors. De-coupling these—often mixed—motives behind the demands for actor plurality unveils policy approaches that more adequately fit with these distinct motives. The paper finally proposes rather to integrate the politically desired values into the bid evaluation criteria instead of granting privileges to specific actors that are assumed to provide these values.

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“…The third political change came from the EU Commission, which pressured the German federal government to change its feed‐in tariff to an auction system. The Commission had begun backing away from the EU's renewable energy targets in March 2013, to focus more on limiting short‐term costs and promoting market competition (Tews, , p. 4). Then, in December 2013, the Commission opened an investigation of Germany's renewable energy surcharge, including an infringement proceeding concerning the country's generous exemptions for industry, which it viewed as state aid subject to its supervision.…”

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“…Then, in December 2013, the Commission opened an investigation of Germany's renewable energy surcharge, including an infringement proceeding concerning the country's generous exemptions for industry, which it viewed as state aid subject to its supervision. The Commission also issued draft guidelines on state aid for renewables, which labeled feed‐in tariffs as nonmarket compatible (Tews, , pp. 11, 13; Vogelpohl et al, , p. 52).…”

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“…The German federal government responded by successfully negotiating for the retention of most of the industry exemptions, while not resisting the Commission's drive for an end to the feed‐in tariff . Finally, in April 2014, the Commission formally adopted the new guidelines on state aid for renewable energy, which called for a transition from feed‐in tariffs to feed‐in premiums, auctioning, or tradable certificates (Boscheck, , p. 258; Tews, , p. 12). The German cabinet timed the adoption of its draft law for radically reforming its renewable energy policy to coincide with the EU Commission's announcement of its finalized guidelines (Vogelpohl et al, , p. 52).…”

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Household Costs and Resistance to Germany's Energy Transition

Karapin

2020

Review of Policy Research

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Germany is an exemplary case of an energy transition from nuclear energy and fossil fuels toward renewables in the electricity sector, but it also demonstrates repeated, increasingly successful countermobilization by energy incumbents and their allies. The course for Germany's energy transition was largely set with the adoption of a feed-in tariff law in 1990, but since then the energy transition has been altered by a series of policy-making episodes, each of which was shaped by the outcomes of the previous episodes; there has been a combination of reinforcing and reactive sequences. This article uses policy windows and advocacy coalition theory, supplemented by work on resistance to carbon pricing, to analyze the four periods in which opponents of the energy transition had the greatest opportunities to limit or reverse it. It makes three main arguments intended to influence future research on energy transitions: (1) episodes of opposition to the feed-in tariff policy occurred when problem awareness and political commitment converged, (2) the outcomes of those conflicts depended on the balance of mobilization by advocacy and opposing coalitions, and (3) rising household costs due to the renewable energy surcharge drove both problem awareness and the composition of the opposing coalition, which helped lead to a more far-reaching retrenchment of renewable energy policy in 2014 than in earlier periods.

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Europeanization of Energy and Climate Policy

Cited by 43 publications

References 32 publications

Europeanization Processes of the EU Energy Policy in Visegrad Countries in the Years 2005–2018

Europeanization Processes of the EU Energy Policy in Visegrad Countries in the Years 2005–2018

The Crash of a Policy Pilot to Legally Define Community Energy. Evidence from the German Auction Scheme

Household Costs and Resistance to Germany's Energy Transition

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