Journal
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Volume 128, Issue -, Pages 97-104Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.03.078
Keywords
Low carbon transition; Local electricity experiments; Incumbent-challenger interactions; Germany; Strategic action fields; Interactions; Germany
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A characterizing feature of the German electricity transition is that it started as a movement arising from the civil society. Initially the movement was directed against nuclear energy and later on turned into a movement favoring decentralized forms of energy production and distribution as well as local control over energy questions. Once these demands found official recognition and regulatory support, a dynamic development ensued in which a host of new actors with new ideas and strategies became involved in the field of electricity generation. Regions, cities and villages experimenting with socio-technical innovations and aiming to implement new concepts developed governance structures under high uncertainty. These governance structures mirror space-specific social, political, technological and economic constellations. Once the old incumbent actors in the field began to falter, both government and electricity providers started to stem the tide of decentralized initiatives, whose dynamic in fact has recently been seriously weakened. In order to help us better understand these developments in a more generic context, the theory of strategic action fields will be applied. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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