Energy Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Energy Democracy write by Craig Morris. This book was released on 2016-09-09. Energy Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book outlines how Germans convinced their politicians to pass laws allowing citizens to make their own energy, even when it hurt utility companies to do so. It traces the origins of the Energiewende movement in Germany from the Power Rebels of Schönau to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s shutdown of eight nuclear power plants following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. The authors explore how, by taking ownership of energy efficiency at a local level, community groups are key actors in the bottom-up fight against climate change. Individually, citizens might install solar panels on their roofs, but citizen groups can do much more: community wind farms, local heat supply, walkable cities and more. This book offers evidence that the transition to renewables is a one-time opportunity to strengthen communities and democratize the energy sector – in Germany and around the world.
Germany's Energy Transition
Germany's Energy Transition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Germany's Energy Transition write by Carol Hager. This book was released on 2016-09-26. Germany's Energy Transition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyzes Germany's path-breaking Energiewende, the country's transition from an energy system based on fossil and nuclear fuels to a sustainable energy system based on renewables. The authors explain Germany's commitment to a renewable energy transition on multiple levels of governance, from the local to the European, focusing on the sources of institutional change that made the transition possible. They then place the German case in international context through comparative case studies of energy transitions in the USA, China, and Japan. These chapters highlight the multifaceted challenges, and the enormous potential, in different paths to a sustainable energy future. Taken together, they tell the story of one of the most important political, economic, and social undertakings of our time.
Drivers of Energy Transition
Drivers of Energy Transition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Drivers of Energy Transition write by Wolfgang Gründinger. This book was released on 2017-03-16. Drivers of Energy Transition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wolfgang Gründinger explores how interest groups, veto opportunities, and electoral pressure formed the German energy transition: nuclear exit, renewables, coal (CCS), and emissions trading. His findings provide evidence that logics of political competition in new German politics have fundamentally changed over the last two decades with respect to five distinct mechanisms: the end of ’fossil-nuclear’ corporatism, the new importance of trust in lobbying, ’green ’ path dependence, the emergence of a ’Green Grand Coalition’, and intra-party fights over energy politics.
The European Dimension of Germany’s Energy Transition
The European Dimension of Germany’s Energy Transition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The European Dimension of Germany’s Energy Transition write by Erik Gawel. This book was released on 2019-02-07. The European Dimension of Germany’s Energy Transition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses the interactions between Germany’s energy transition and the EU’s energy policy framework. It seeks to analyze the manifold connections between the prospects of the proclaimed “Energy Union” and the future of Germany’s energy transition, and identifies relevant lessons for the transformation at the EU level that can be learned from the case of Germany, as a first-mover of transforming energy systems towards renewables. The various repercussions (political, economic and systemic) from the national transition are explored within the EU context as it responds to the German transition, taking into account both existing frictions and potential synergies between predominantly national sustainability policies and the EU’s push towards harmonized policies within a common market. The book’s overall aim is to identify the most critical issues, in order to avoid pitfalls and capitalize on opportunities.
The German Energy Transition
The German Energy Transition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The German Energy Transition write by Thomas Unnerstall. This book was released on 2017-05-26. The German Energy Transition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book presents a comprehensive and systematic account of the concept, the current status and the costs of the German energy transition: the Energiewende. Written by an insider who has been working in the German energy industry for over 20 years, it follows a strictly non-political, neutral approach and clearly outlines the most relevant facts and figures. In particular, it describes the main impacts of the Energiewende on the German power system and Germany’s national economy. Furthermore, it addresses questions that are of global interest with respect to energy transitions, such as the cost to the national economy, the financial burden on private households and companies and the actual effects on CO2 emissions. The book also discusses what could have been done better in terms of planning and implementing the Energiewende, and identifies important lessons for other countries that are considering a similar energy transition.
