Book contents
- In Search of Good Energy Policy
- In Search of Good Energy Policy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Multidisciplinary Perspectives
- Part II Cases and Multidisciplinary Responses
- 10 The Ethics of Nuclear Energy: Its Past, Present and Future1
- 11 Fukushima and German Energy Policy 2005–2015/2016
- 12 Rethinking the Environmental State: An Economic History of the Swedish Environmental Kuznets Curve for Carbon
- 13 Fossil Fuel Systems to 100 Per Cent Renewable Energy-Based Smart Energy Systems: Lessons from the Case of Denmark, 1973–2017
- 14 The Politics of Carbon Capture and Storage: How Interests Have Outstripped Economics in Shaping the Evolution of a Technology
- 15 Scaling Clean Energy for Data Centres: Trends, Problems, Solutions
- 16 Public Participation in the Context of Energy Activities: The Role of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee
- 17 Biofuel Energy, Ancestral Time and the Destruction of Borneo: An Ethical Perspective
- 18 From Inspiration to Implementation: Laudato Si’, Public Theology and the Demands of Energy Policy
- Part III Multidisciplinary Cases
- Index
13 - Fossil Fuel Systems to 100 Per Cent Renewable Energy-Based Smart Energy Systems: Lessons from the Case of Denmark, 1973–2017
from Part II - Cases and Multidisciplinary Responses
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 June 2019
- In Search of Good Energy Policy
- In Search of Good Energy Policy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Multidisciplinary Perspectives
- Part II Cases and Multidisciplinary Responses
- 10 The Ethics of Nuclear Energy: Its Past, Present and Future1
- 11 Fukushima and German Energy Policy 2005–2015/2016
- 12 Rethinking the Environmental State: An Economic History of the Swedish Environmental Kuznets Curve for Carbon
- 13 Fossil Fuel Systems to 100 Per Cent Renewable Energy-Based Smart Energy Systems: Lessons from the Case of Denmark, 1973–2017
- 14 The Politics of Carbon Capture and Storage: How Interests Have Outstripped Economics in Shaping the Evolution of a Technology
- 15 Scaling Clean Energy for Data Centres: Trends, Problems, Solutions
- 16 Public Participation in the Context of Energy Activities: The Role of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee
- 17 Biofuel Energy, Ancestral Time and the Destruction of Borneo: An Ethical Perspective
- 18 From Inspiration to Implementation: Laudato Si’, Public Theology and the Demands of Energy Policy
- Part III Multidisciplinary Cases
- Index
Summary
Danish energy policy has reached a phase where the effects of the paradigmatic change from stored fossil fuels to very large shares of fluctuating renewable energy requires fundamentally new technical, political and economic solutions. Two archetypal technical scenarios are the locally and regionally integrated Smart Energy System scenario and a centralized export/import transmission line scenario. In analyzing the competition between these scenarios we applied a social anthropological method of GOING CLOSE to the situation of the actors and the ecological, technological and institutional context. We concluded that a smart energy scenario that can integrate large amounts of fluctuating wind power is optimal, but that the transmission line scenario has the politically strongest supporters and consequently, an advantage for being implemented. With respect to institutional factors, our conclusion is that if a country should be able to change its path against the will of politically strong actors, it is a must to have innovative democracy where the parliament, educational institutions and other institutions are independent of these political actors. In the present phase of the transition to 100% renewable energy we recommend concrete and specific institutional changes both at the EU and national levels.
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- In Search of Good Energy Policy , pp. 165 - 186Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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