Exnovating for a renewable energy transition

Davidson, Debra J.

doi:10.1038/s41560-019-0369-3

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“…Effectively and rapidly addressing climate change not only requires investing in new energy technologies, but also divesting from carbon-intensive energy infrastructures [39][40][41][42][43] . Our study is among the first to investigate citizens' views on the second part of this equation.…”

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Germany’s decision to phase out coal by 2038 lags behind citizens’ timing preferences

Rinscheid

Wüstenhagen

2019

Nat Energy

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Coal-fired power generation is the single most important source of carbon dioxide emissions in many countries, including Germany. A government commission recently proposed to phase out coal by 2038, which implies that the country will miss its 2020 climate target. Based on a representative sample of German voters assessing 31,744 hypothetical policy scenarios in a choice experiment, we show that voters prefer an earlier phase-out by 2025. They would uphold their support for greater climate ambition up to an additional cost to society of €8.50 billion. Voters in Rhineland and Lusatia, the country's main coal regions, support an earlier phase-out, too, although to a lesser extent. By demonstrating that political decision-makers are more reluctant to overcoming energy path dependence than voters, our analysis calls for further research explaining the influence of particular stakeholders in slowing energy transitions. 80 per cent of the world's coal reserves must stay in the ground in order to reach the target of limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels 1. Already in 2008, climate scientists had called for a complete divestment from coalfired electricity by 2030 2 , a proposition reiterated by a recent "Roadmap for Rapid Decarbonization" 3. Yet, despite the strong growth of renewable energies, coal still accounted for 28 percent of the world's primary energy supply in 2017 4. As Pfeiffer et al. 5 point out, coal-fired power plants "will need to be underutilized, retired early, or retrofitted […] or-in short-stranded" (p. 7) if countries are serious about reaching the targets set out in Paris. Users may view, print, copy, and download text and data-mine the content in such documents, for the purposes of academic research, subject always to the full Conditions of use:

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Germany’s decision to phase out coal by 2038 lags behind citizens’ timing preferences

Rinscheid

Wüstenhagen

2019

Nat Energy

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“…The concept of a 'socio-technical regime' also helps us to understand that the further course of technological development and the behaviour of the regime actors will be to a large extent 'programmed' by a desire to maintain the regime power base (and the associated advantages in terms of financial gains and/or political influence) for as long as possible. Therefore, 'breaking down' regime structures, cultures, and practices (called 'exnovation' in contrast to 'innovation' by Davidson [54]) will be a long-term strategic effort and is to the core of the current research agenda on sustainability transitions [30]. Table 3 shows that the TIS and SCP analysis generally reveal different types of enablers.…”

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Diagnosing Barriers and Enablers for the Flemish Energy Transition

Laes

Valkering²,

Weerdt

2019

Sustainability

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Industrialised economies are currently confronted with the challenge of transitioning to a low-carbon energy system. Starting from the insight that ‘system innovation’ rather than incremental change is needed, we diagnose barriers and enablers for energy system transformation for the case of Flanders (Belgium). We thereby combine multiple perspectives: a techno-economic perspective to derive a technology-based vision on the energy transition, a technology innovation perspective to assess barriers and enablers regarding the upscaling of technological niche-innovations, and a system innovation perspective to address fundamental barriers and enablers associated with transformative system change. We highlight the complementary features of the three perspectives and describe how insights can feed into the development of energy transition pathways.

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“…On the other hand, some functional issues are also important in terms of customer expectations. For example, factors such as easy access to energy and the availability of customer support for a possible problem are factors that increase customer satisfaction [82][83][84]. In addition, thanks to the modularity of the product, its adaptation to different conditions can be easily increased, thus customer expectations can be met [68].…”

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Analyzing the Investments Strategies for Renewable Energies Based on Multi-Criteria Decision Model

Zhong

Yüksel

et al. 2020

IEEE Access

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The purpose of this study is to determine appropriate innovative strategies for the renewable energy investments. For this purpose, a hybrid multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) model is proposed based on interval type-2 (IT2) fuzzy sets and alpha cut levels. Within this context, hesitant IT2 fuzzy DEMATEL-Based Analytic Network Process (DANP) with alpha cut levels is applied for weighting the customer requirements. Moreover, hesitant IT2 fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) with alpha cut levels is used for ranking the TRIZ-based strategies priorities of renewable energy investments based on house of quality technique. These strategies are also ranked with hesitant IT2 fuzzy Vise Kriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR) approach to make a comparative evaluation. The results illustrate that ease of access and security are among the most prominent factors of customer requirements for renewable energy investments. It is also identified that innovative technical requirement entitled cushion in advance has the best choice for the sustainable renewable energy projects. Furthermore, the results of proposed model using hesitant IT2 fuzzy DANP and hesitant IT2 fuzzy TOPSIS are identical for the different levels of alpha cut. In addition, it is also defined that the results of hesitant IT2 fuzzy TOPSIS and hesitant IT2 fuzzy VIKOR are quite coherent. This is a clear evidence that the proposed model is coherent and could provide comprehensive results for the future studies. It is strongly recommended that a detailed analysis is required to identify the risks in renewable energy investment projects. Hence, necessary actions can be taken appropriately so that it can be possible to prevent problems before they grow.

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Exnovating for a renewable energy transition

Cited by 204 publications

References 9 publications

Germany’s decision to phase out coal by 2038 lags behind citizens’ timing preferences

Germany’s decision to phase out coal by 2038 lags behind citizens’ timing preferences

Diagnosing Barriers and Enablers for the Flemish Energy Transition

Analyzing the Investments Strategies for Renewable Energies Based on Multi-Criteria Decision Model

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