Normative Alignment, Institutional Resilience and Shifts in Legal Governance of the Energy Transition

Heldeweg, Michiel A.

doi:10.3390/su9071273

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“…The articles on GIs for renewable energy (Oteman, Kooij & Wiering [22], Warbroek and Hoppe [23], Saintier [25], Heldeweg [34]) revealed an image on emerging regulatory responses by decentral governments, in the absence of national government's regulatory response. Although most EU member states have feed-in-systems in place nowadays, national governments did not do much substantially in response to emergence of the GIs besides launching episodic instruments like the so-called 'Zipcode rose' (implemented in the Netherlands) and allowing for some degree of experimentation.…”

Section: Multiple Levels Of Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The emergence of these new actors also comes with new forms of (self-)governance and forms of enabling and networked forms of governance, while creating pressure on traditional modes of governance by authority. The question also emerges how to 'merge' or 'synergize' modes of self-governance with the more traditional forms of governance in the energy sector (see the articles by Oteman, Kooij & Wiering [22], Warbroek & Hoppe [23], Heldeweg [34], Saintier [25]). Second, multi-actor complexity was shown by the influential role NGOs and energy consumers representative organisations had on the implementation process of the GO system (Hufen [19]).…”

Section: Multi-actor Complexitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Whereas some focus on typical top down (assumingly harmonized) implementation of policy from the EU to the national level (i.e., the GO system reported in Hufen [19]), other focus more on the regulatory responses to technical and social innovations that emerge in a bottom-up fashion. The latter address energy communities, GIs for renewable energy, community energy services, shareholder projects and the like (Oteman, Kooij & Wiering [22], Warbroek & Hoppe [23], Saintier [25], Heldeweg [34]). In these approaches, governance not only concerns (modes of) public governance but also conveys (modes of) societal self-governance.…”

Section: Different Ways To Respond To Energy Innovationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sectoral regulations have a vast impact on decentralized governance, causing many civil servants to act as 'wounded lions,' clinging to strict interpretation and hence implementation of permit systems and other regulatory necessities, causing institutional inertia and a lack of adaptive capacity to cope with emerging social innovations in the energy sector. Lammers & Diestelmeier [24], Warbroek & Hoppe [23] and Heldeweg [34] address legal practices and instruments under which experiments with renewable energy innovations take place. They observe vast restrictions that impede good use of the experiments regarding institutional learning and adaptation and call for reflexive meta-governance and creation of designing absorptive and resistant institutional settings, while meanwhile allowing for self-regulation within instantiations of legal institutions, to organize (governance) experiments.…”

Section: New Policy Instruments?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A third type of regulatory response addressed in the contributions concerns experimentation. It addresses current flaws in experimentation legislation and addresses the institutional and legal conditions under which experiments with energy innovations can prosper and evoke adaptation of regulatory frameworks (Lammers & Diestelmeier [24], Heldeweg [34], Warbroek & Hoppe [23]). …”

Section: Different Ways To Respond To Energy Innovationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Transdisciplinary approaches for planning and managing sustainability transitions present an opportunity for embedding knowledge making as an integral design element.Collaboratively formulated energy transitions as one such transdisciplinary undertaking, can benefit from the plural integration of knowledge forms to maximize uptake and diffusion of material outcomes, and the principles and values underlying collaborative action. Moreover, reflexive knowledge practices can identify safeguards that prevent disproportionate distribution of benefits, consequences, and lower participation barriers for diverse stakeholders. This article presents a knowledge making research agenda for co-creation of sustainable energy transitions and proposes the deconstruction-reconstruction knowledge making framework to enable systemic social learning among stakeholders. The theoretical framework is operationalized through a knowledge architecture, designed to facilitate a multi-stakeholder sustainable energy transition project in Sierra Leone. Findings indicate that an embedded knowledge architecture can lower epistemological and methodological barriers to co-creation, while enhancing the ability to adaptively manage emergent information and conflicts.

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Normative Alignment, Institutional Resilience and Shifts in Legal Governance of the Energy Transition

Cited by 33 publications

References 43 publications

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Innovation in the European Energy Sector and Regulatory Responses to It: Guest Editorial Note

Deconstructing knowledge and reconstructing understanding: Designing a knowledge architecture for transdisciplinary co‐creation of energy futures

How to make climate policy more effective? The search for high leverage points by the multidisciplinary Dutch expert team ‘Energy System 2050’

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