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Wind Power and Power Politics
Author | : Peter Strachan,David Lal,David Toke |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2009-09-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781135898953 |
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The aim of the book is to analyse the factors that have influenced wind power outcomes in a range of countries which have featured significant wind power deployment programmes. A central theme is the relationship between patterns of ownership and the outcomes. These flow from different social environments, but they are associated with different types of planning outcome and deployment rates. Grass roots ownership is more widespread than is commonly thought, although it is not a panacea for effective wind power programmes. Financial policies used to promote wind power also have important influences of the rates of deployment. However, what seems to be most important for wind power deployment is a double coincidence of widespread social support for wind power deployment and effective financial support systems for wind power.
Wind Power Politics and Policy
Author | : Scott Victor Valentine |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2014-10-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780199862733 |
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The wind power development policy community faces a conundrum. On the one hand, as the most commercially viable form of utility-scale renewable energy, the wind power industry has experienced in excess of ten-fold growth in total installed capacity over the past decade. On the other hand, installed wind power capacity still accounts for less than 2% of global electricity-generation capacity, despite the prevalence of studies indicating that, in certain situations, wind power can be a cheaper form of electricity than most fossil fuel alternatives. Accordingly, the most puzzling aspect of wind power development policy can be summed up in the following manner: given the global imperative to facilitate an expedient transition away from CO2-intensive energy technologies and the commercial viability of wind power, what is stopping the wind power industry from capturing higher market shares around the world? In Wind Power Politics and Policy, Scott Valentine examines this question from two angles. First, it presents an analysis of social, technical, economic and political (STEP) barriers which research shows tends to stymie wind power development. Case studies which examine phlegmatic wind power development in Japan, Taiwan, Australia and Canada are presented in order to demonstrate to the reader how these barriers manifest themselves in practice. Second, the book presents an analysis of STEP catalysts which have been linked to successful growth of wind power capacity in select nations. Four more case studies that examine the successful development of wind power in Denmark, Germany, the USA and China are put forth as practical examples of how supportive factors conflate to produce conditions that are conducive to growth of wind power markets. By examining its impediments and catalysts, the book will provide policymakers with insight into the types of factors that must be effectively managed in order to maximize wind power development.
Social Movements against Wind Power in Canada and Germany
Author | : Andrea Bues |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2020-05-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781000078787 |
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Taking a comparative case study approach between Canada and Germany, this book investigates the contrasting response of governments to anti-wind movements. Environmental social movements have been critical players for encouraging the shift towards increased use of renewable energy. However, social movements mobilizing against the installation of wind turbines have now become a major obstacle to their increased deployment. Andrea Bues draws on a cross-Atlantic comparative analysis to investigate the different contexts of contentious energy policy. Focusing on two sub-national forerunner regions in installed wind power capacity – Brandenburg and Ontario – Bues draws on social movement theory to explore the concept of discursive energy space and propose explanations as to why governments respond differently to social movements. Overall, Social Movements against Wind Power in Canada and Germany offers a novel conceptualization of discursive-institutional contexts of contentious energy politics and helps better understand protest against renewable energy policy. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of renewable energy policy, sustainability and climate change politics, social movement studies and environmental sociology.
Learning from Wind Power
Author | : Joseph Szarka,Richard Cowell,Geraint Ellis,Peter A. Strachan,Charles Warren |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2012-06-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781137265272 |
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Bringing together contributions from leading researchers, this volume reflects on the political, institutional and social factors that have shaped the recent expansion of wind energy, and to consider what lessons this experience may provide for the future expansion of other renewable technologies.
Wind Power in Europe
Author | : J. Szarka |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2007-08-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780230286672 |
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At a time when humanity is challenged by fossil fuel depletion and climate change, this book explains the development of wind power as a major energy growth sector, stressing the interactions between political, economic and social dimensions as the key to understanding public acceptability and uptake.
Wind Power and Power Politics
Author | : Peter Strachan,David Lal,David Toke |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2009-09-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781135898960 |
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The aim of the book is to analyse the factors that have influenced wind power outcomes in a range of countries which have featured significant wind power deployment programmes. A central theme is the relationship between patterns of ownership and the outcomes. These flow from different social environments, but they are associated with different types of planning outcome and deployment rates. Grass roots ownership is more widespread than is commonly thought, although it is not a panacea for effective wind power programmes. Financial policies used to promote wind power also have important influences of the rates of deployment. However, what seems to be most important for wind power deployment is a double coincidence of widespread social support for wind power deployment and effective financial support systems for wind power.
Political Economies of Energy Transition
Author | : Kathryn Hochstetler |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2020-11-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781108843843 |
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Shows that economic concerns about jobs, costs, and consumption, rather than climate change, are likely to drive energy transition in developing countries.
Wind Energy Comes of Age
Author | : Paul Gipe |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 1995-04-14 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 047110924X |
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He cites improvements in the performance, reliability, and cost effectiveness of modern wind turbines to support his contention that wind energy has come of age as a commercial technology.