Established Career Fellowship for Professor Catherine Mitchell

创新，治理和负担能力的可持续和安全的经济应对气候变化，同时确保能源安全和负担能力是英国和国际能源系统面临的关键问题。迈向更可持续的低碳经济的目标意味着需要在能源供应和使用方式上进行根本性的转变。这种变化不仅与所开发和部署的技术有关，而且与它们所嵌入或与之相连的更广泛的政治、社会和经济机构和基础设施有关，包括其中的所有行为体。这是一个动态和复杂的过程，所有这些因素之间的相互作用以及能源系统内不同行为者（如政策制定者、大公司、新进入者、投资者、最终用户等）的选择都将影响变革发生的方式，即能源治理。这项研究将侧重于创新，治理，能源需求和负担能力之间的关系。它将通过探索能源系统内部相互作用的方式及其对碳目标、技术部署、投资、新实践、客户参与、能源效率和客户能源总成本等创新的影响来实现这一目标。具体而言，研究将考虑机构、政策设计（如天然气和电力系统（市场和基础设施）内的规则和激励措施）、行业结构、现有和新进入公司战略和决策过程以及消费者做法之间的关系。它将主要通过遵循政治和制度经济学理论提出的相对简单的因果关系来做到这一点。更复杂的创新理论（多层次视角和变革的共同进化理论）确实考虑了治理，但不是很详细。阐明这些更复杂的理论的整体方法将增加我们的分析的严谨性，也使在MLP和共同进化创新理论的治理的讨论的扩展。该计划将在四年内在四个具有非常不同的创新历史的国家开展这项工作。特别是，它将分析不同的创新和治理关系对减少能源需求的成功与否和负担能力问题的影响。最后，它将分析能源系统的长期战略创新的研究结果的影响，建立在，并有助于，文献和分析的社会技术转型，共同进化分析，制度经济学和政策范式。这些成果将使人们更好地了解如何向可持续的低碳能源系统过渡。该研究小组由埃克塞特大学能源政策部门的凯瑟琳·米切尔领导，并得到了一个高级别专家小组的支持。这包括从事转型理论研究的英国和国际学者，来自大型和小型能源公司的代表，英国能源监管机构，以及来自更广泛的能源社区的从业人员，他们与能源行业的一系列利益相关者合作。研究将针对英国能源系统进行，并在丹麦、德国、加州和得克萨斯进行国际比较分析。

Innovation, Governance and Affordability for a Sustainable and Secure EconomyTackling climate change, whilst ensuring energy security and affordability are key issues facing energy the system within the UK and internationally. The goal of moving towards a more sustainable, low carbon economy implies the need for a radical transition in the way that energy is both supplied and used. Such a change not only links to the technologies that are developed and deployed, but also the wider political, social, and economic institutions and infrastructures in which they are embedded or with which they are connected, including all of the actors within them. This is a dynamic and complex process and the interactions between all these factors and the choices made by the different actors within the energy system, such as policy makers, large firms, new entrants, investors, end users, etc will all influence that way the change occurs - i.e. energy governance. This research will focus on the relationships between innovation, governance, energy demand and affordability. It will do this by exploring the means by which interactions take place within the energy systems and their implications for innovation in respect to carbon targets, technology deployment, investment, new practices, customer involvement, energy efficiency, and the total cost of energy for customers. Specifically the research will consider the relationships between institutions, policy design (such as rules and incentives within the gas and electricity systems (markets and infrastructure), industry structure, incumbent and new entrant company strategies and decision-making processes and consumer practices. It will do this by primarily following the relatively simple causal relationships put forward by political and institutional economic theory. More complex theories of innovation (the multi level perspective and the coevolutionary theory of change) do consider governance but not in great detail. Incorporating the overall methodologies of these more complex theories will add rigour to our analyses, and also enable an expansion of the discussion of governance in both the MLP and co-evolutionary innovation theories. The programme will do this over four years in four countries with very different innovation histories. In particular, it will analyse the implications of different innovation and governance relationships on the success or otherwise of energy demand reduction and issues of affordability. Finally, it will analyse the implications of the findings on long term strategic innovation in energy systems, building upon, and contributing to, the literature and analysis of socio-technical transitions, coevolutionary analysis, institutional economics and policy paradigms. The outcomes will lead to a better understanding of how the transition to a sustainable, low carbon energy system, can occur. The research team is being lead by Catherine Mitchell from the Energy Policy at Exeter University and is supported by a high level expert panel. This includes UK and international academics working on transition theory, representatives from large and small energy companies, the UK energy regulator, as well as practitioners from the wider energy community who work with a range of stakeholders from across the energy sector. The research will be carried out in respect to the UK energy system and with international comparative analysis within Denmark, Germany, California and Texas.