Social movements and urban energy policy: Assessing contexts, agency and outcomes of remunicipalisation processes in Hamburg and Berlin

Becker, Sören; Blanchet, Thomas; Kunze, Conrad

doi:10.1016/j.jup.2016.02.001

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“…Our results are in line with this view, showing a considerable degree of innovative attention that subnational governments give to LLCEIs. However, this supportive attitude by a small selection of Dutch subnational governments is probably not representative, and results from other studies also revealed unproductive interactions between LLCEIs and local governments e.g., [180][181][182].…”

Section: Innovations In Governingmentioning

confidence: 81%

Modes of Governing and Policy of Local and Regional Governments Supporting Local Low-Carbon Energy Initiatives; Exploring the Cases of the Dutch Regions of Overijssel and Fryslân

Warbroek

Hoppe

2017

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Recent scholarly attention shows increasing involvement of local low-carbon energy initiatives (LLCEIs) in governance and policy, in particular in relation to innovations regarding low-carbon energy and energy efficiency. The future perspective of active citizenship in the production of locally generated low-carbon energy is largely dependent on the existing institutional and policy frameworks and settings. Subnational governments, in particular, can have a prominent role in this process by engaging in institutional adaptation and policy innovation. The central research question of this paper is: In what ways do local and regional governments innovate in governing to respond to the emergence of LLCEIs? The research question is answered by comparing two case studies: the Dutch regions of Overijssel and Fryslân. We have conceptualized a meta-governing approach of experimentation, characterizing the innovations in governing that emerge when governments respond to the emergence of LLCEIs. We specifically focus on two capacities that subnational governments can use to enhance their governing capacity vis-à-vis LLCEIs and which substantiate the experimental meta-governance mode: institutional adaptation and policy innovation. We then formulated hypotheses that specify the expected policy innovations and institutional adaptations employed vis-à-vis LLCEIs. Data collection involved in-depth interviews and use of secondary data. The results show that a balancing process of authoritative and enabling modes of governing particularly characterized the type of policy innovations that were developed and the institutional adaptations that took place. Both provinces govern LLCEIs at arm's length and issue significant capacity-building strategies that vary in terms of their conditions. Municipalities, however, incline towards impromptu and opportunistic responses, some of them having lasting effects by patching up existing institutional settings, others having more of an episodic character. The results will further the understanding of subnational low-carbon policy and governance innovation processes vis-à-vis the role of LLCEIs.

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Section: Innovations In Governingmentioning

confidence: 81%

Modes of Governing and Policy of Local and Regional Governments Supporting Local Low-Carbon Energy Initiatives; Exploring the Cases of the Dutch Regions of Overijssel and Fryslân

Warbroek

Hoppe

2017

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“…Häufig artikulierten städtische soziale Bewegungen die Unzufriedenheit mit den privaten Unternehmen im Energiesektor (Becker et al, 2016). Kampagnen wie "Unser Hamburg -Unser Netz" eröffnen einen Diskurs, der sich neben dem Ziel der öffentlichen Aneignung von Energieinfrastrukturen auf eine Lokalisierung der Energieversorgung bezieht.…”

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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“…This paper takes its point of departure in two international tendencies that are observed in the district heating sector. The first trend is the phasing out of (fossil fuel-based) cogeneration of heat and power (CHP) [3] and the second trend is the re-municipalisation of district heating systems [4][5][6][7].…”

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District Heating Tariffs, Economic Optimisation and Local Strategies during Radical Technological Change

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This paper addresses economic aspects of heat savings in the context of strategic heat planning. The analysis uses the city of Aalborg, Denmark, as a case where municipalisation through a recent acquisition of a coal-fired cogeneration of heat and power (CHP) plant has made an update of a municipal strategic energy plan necessary. Combining datasets on buildings and insulation techniques with economic methods, we investigate how the local district heating tariff can be adapted to improve the conditions for heat savings and support the transition to lower supply temperatures in line with the requirements of future fourth generation district heating systems. The paper concludes that implementing a fully variable heat tariff scheme improves the financial incentive for heat savings, while also making the system development less vulnerable to fluctuations and shortages in capital markets. The paper supplements existing literature on heat savings with novelty in its approach and in its systematic investigation of the interplay between tariff policies and interest rates.

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Social movements and urban energy policy: Assessing contexts, agency and outcomes of remunicipalisation processes in Hamburg and Berlin

Cited by 40 publications

References 32 publications

Modes of Governing and Policy of Local and Regional Governments Supporting Local Low-Carbon Energy Initiatives; Exploring the Cases of the Dutch Regions of Overijssel and Fryslân

Modes of Governing and Policy of Local and Regional Governments Supporting Local Low-Carbon Energy Initiatives; Exploring the Cases of the Dutch Regions of Overijssel and Fryslân

Rescaling Energy? Räumliche Neuordnungen in der deutschen Energiewende

District Heating Tariffs, Economic Optimisation and Local Strategies during Radical Technological Change

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