Socio-technical and political economy perspectives in the Chinese energy transition
Socio-technical and political economy perspectives in the Chinese energy transition
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DOI：
10.1016/j.erss.2017.10.043
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发表时间：
2017-11
影响因子：
6.7
通讯作者：
A. Mori
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作者：
A. Mori
电力系统是如此强烈的路径依赖和深深植根于社会，垂直整合的垄断或寡头垄断供应是合理的。然而，对能力投资的过度激励、对化石燃料的过度依赖、供应效率低下以及缺乏定制服务、问责制和参与，引起了对现行制度的不满，促使制度转型。鉴于可再生能源在打破锁定和产生正反馈效应方面的巨大潜力，本文以中国为例，探讨利基创新者和在位者如何利用其资源和权力，创造、增强或削弱现行电力供应系统的政治路径依赖和锁定，从而前景未来的能源转型。主要调查结果如下：（a）可再生能源在中国产生了反馈效应;（B）政权行为者利用其资源和权力组织联盟，以符合政府的政策取向，同时阻碍能源转型的体制改革;及（c）它们的资源和权力来自垄断或寡头垄断的电力供应系统及政府的价格管制，为了能源安全和经济稳定，这两者都是合理的。
Electricity systems are so strongly path dependent and deeply embedded in society that vertically integrated monopolistic or oligopolistic supply are justified. However, over-incentivize for capacity investment, excess dependency on fossil fuel, inefficient supply, and lack of customized services, accountability and participation raise dissatisfaction with the prevailing system, urging system transition. Given high potential of renewable energy in breaking the lock-in and generating positive feedback effects, this paper aims to explore how niche innovators and incumbents capitalize on their resources and power to create, augment or weaken prevailing political path-dependencies and lock-in of the prevailing electricity supply system to prospect a future energy transition, taking China as a case. Main findings are: (a) renewable energy has generated feedback effects in China; (b) regime actors have capitalized on their resources and power to organize alliances to be consistent with the government policy orientation while blocking institutional reforms for energy transition; and (c) their resources and power are derived from the monopolistic or oligopolistic electricity supply system and the government price control, both of which are justified for the sake of energy security and economic stabilization.