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New articel on whole system change in the energy transition
A new article was published by Dierk Bauknecht in the journal Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. It examines the governance challenges of the energy transition and contributes to the new debate on whole system change. Specifically, it is about the further development of grid regulation, the case study examines Norway. Network regulation was developed to make the networks more efficient. What does it mean for this instrument if, in the course of the energy transition, not only renewable energies are expanded, but the power grids also have to be adapted accordingly?
Bauknecht, Dierk; Andersen, Allan Dahl; Dunne, Karoline Tornes (2020): Challenges for electricity network governance in whole system change: Insights from energy transition in Norway. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 37: 318-331; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2020.09.004
New Working Paper on Governance Experiments
Experiments are an important governance instrument to support niche development, promote niche-regime interaction, challenge existing regimes and manage transition pathways for sustainable development. However, policy and regulatory learning of experiments are under-explored in the transition experimentation literature. Thus, this paper examines the following research question: How is the up-take of regulatory experiments for sustainability transitions influenced by their design elements and what role do institutional dynamics play in their up-take? The paper uses comparative qualitative content analysis to examine 27 international cases of regulatory experiments. We analyze the up-take of experiment results towards the three dimensions of scalability, transferability and unintended consequences. The analysis demonstrates that the timeframe, timing, political support, regulatory context, geographical particularities, selection processes, evaluation procedures, test of different design options, heterogeneity of participants and communication processes are important influencing factors for the up-take of experiment results.
Daniel Feser, Simon Winkler-Portmann, Thore Sören Bischoff, Dierk Bauknecht, Kilian Bizer, Martin Führ, Dirk Arne Heyen, Till Proeger, Kaja von der Leyen, Moritz Vogel (2021): Institutional conditions for the up-take of governance experiments – A comparative case study. URL: https://www.ifh.wiwi.uni-goettingen.de/upload/veroeffentlichungen/WP/ifh_wp-28_2021.pdf