Energy transitions and uncertainty: Creating low carbon investment opportunities in the UK electricity sector
Energy transitions and uncertainty: Creating low carbon investment opportunities in the UK electricity sector
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能源转型和不确定性：在英国电力行业创造低碳投资机会
DOI：
10.1177/0263774x15619628
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2016
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S. Hall
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作者：
Ronan Bolton;T. Foxon;S. Hall
本文研究了英国电力部门的参与者如何试图在低碳发电方面进行投资。低碳技术由于其相对不成熟、资本密集和低运营成本，不容易适应现有的电力市场和为化石燃料能源设计的投资模板。我们分析了英国主要的电力市场和基础设施政策，并强调了这些政策是如何通过减少不确定性、管理投资风险和在电力社会技术“制度”中重新定位参与者，使低碳技术“可投资”的。我们认为，我们的研究可以为当代关于可持续转型的政治和治理的辩论提供信息，方法是在面对不确定性时对现任政权行动者的代理进行实证调查，并就市场和金融在塑造社会技术变革中的作用提供关键见解。
This paper examines how actors in the UK electricity sector are attempting to deliver investment in low carbon generation. Low carbon technologies, because of their relative immaturity, capital intensity and low operational costs, do not readily fit with existing electricity markets and investment templates which were designed for fossil fuel based energy. We analyse key electricity market and infrastructure policies in the UK and highlight how these are aimed at making low carbon technologies ‘investable’ by reducing uncertainty, managing investment risks and repositioning actors within the electricity socio-technical ‘regime’. We argue that our study can inform contemporary debates on the politics and governance of sustainability transitions by empirically investigating the agency of incumbent regime actors in the face of uncertainty and by offering critical insights on the role of markets and finance in shaping socio-technical change.