IGov: Innovation and Governance for Future Energy Systems

IGov：未来能源系统的创新与治理

• 批准号: EP/N014170/1
• 负责人: Catherine Mitchell
• 金额: $ 142.14万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FN014170%2F1
• 关键词: IGov; Innovation; Governance; Future; Energy

Catherine Mitchell's Established Career Fellowship (ECF) has shown/is showing that GB's energy governance is slow at changing, including with respect to the demand side, and that GB is following a somewhat different low carbon technological path than other European countries, especially those which are most determined to meet their low carbon targets (i.e. Germany and Denmark). Energy system practice change is happening more quickly in some countries and US States with respect to technology use, new entrants, business models, customer engagement and ownership, and this system change appears to be speeding up and becoming increasingly decentralised. Through the ECF, seven issues have emerged about the scale, speed and scope of changes in energy practices by new actors around the world. These are: (1) that there are increasingly rapid changes in many other countries, as explained above; (2) that there appears to be a social, technical, and economic tipping point in favour of a new energy trajectory, even while energy systems remain dominated by fossil fuels; (3) the nature of change appears to be leading to an increasingly co-ordinated but increasingly decentralised energy system; and some changes appears to have their own momentum - like a group of birds 'flocking' or a starling's 'murmuration'. This pattern of change raises (4) concerns about possible disruption, either physical or economic; and whether Britain could 'manage' the transition process; (5) questions about the nature of the future energy system; (6) whether the form that change is taking and the types of energy governance responses in different countries are related to their differing political economy institutions; and finally (7) concerns that the current fossil fuel disinvestment campaign will have an unexpectedly rapid impact on energy systems, with implications for governance.The Fellowship Extension (FE) will explore these issues, and their implications for GB energy governance. Research into, examination of, and subsequent dissemination of these issues to inform British policy and institutions are essential because: (1) policy makers need to know what is happening elsewhere in the globe to understand the potential impacts and opportunities of similar changes here; (2) it seems likely that co-ordinated decentralisation enabled by ICT is a change in energy systems of a scale and nature that is unprecedented, having rapid, large impacts on infrastructure, ownership, business models, and social preferences, and together the impacts from which are not fully understood or necessarily controllable; (3) co-ordinated decentralisation may be a successful way to connect individuals thereby facilitating a quicker move to a smarter, more efficient, demand focused system; (4) technological pathways in co-ordinated decentralisation might better reduce potential negative impacts of disruption or further enable a better 'management' of disruption. These issues lead to three phases of analysis: the nature of change; what are the responses to change; and contextualising change. The answers will have important implications for governance of the GB energy system, especially in relation to how it can develop policies and institutions that provide greater flexibility, adaptability and responsiveness. The key questions of the FE are set out in detail in the Diagrammatic Work-Plan. There would also be two phases of dissemination. This is discussed in detail in the Pathways to Impact and is made up of: firstly, a conclusions and recommendations phase which would summarise key outcomes for different audiences. And secondly, in addition to standard academic aims of journal publication etc, a principal dissemination goal of the FE would be to become a web hub to further engage in debates on energy system change with further blogging, a more active presence on twitter, working towards the publication of a MOOC; with webinars, workshops, and greater international links.

凯瑟琳·米切尔的既定职业奖学金（ECF）已经表明/正在表明，英国的能源治理变化缓慢，包括在需求方面，并且英国正在走一条与其他欧洲国家有所不同的低碳技术道路，特别是那些最有决心实现低碳目标的国家（即德国和丹麦）。在一些国家和美国，在技术使用、新进入者、商业模式、客户参与和所有权方面，能源系统实践变革正在更快地发生，而且这种系统变革似乎正在加速，并且变得越来越分散。通过 ECF，世界各地的新参与者提出了关于能源实践变革的规模、速度和范围的七个问题。它们是：(1) 如上所述，许多其他国家的变化越来越快； (2) 尽管能源系统仍然以化石燃料为主，但似乎存在一个有利于新能源发展轨迹的社会、技术和经济转折点； (3) 变化的本质似乎正在导致能源系统日益协调但日益分散；有些变化似乎有其自身的动力——比如一群鸟儿“聚集”或一只椋鸟的“低语”。这种变化模式引起了 (4) 对可能发生的物理或经济破坏的担忧；以及英国能否“掌控”过渡进程； （5）有关未来能源系统性质的问题； （6）不同国家的变革形式和能源治理应对类型是否与其不同的政治经济制度有关；最后（7）担心当前的化石燃料投资运动将对能源系统产生意想不到的快速影响，并对治理产生影响。奖学金扩展（FE）将探讨这些问题及其对英国能源治理的影响。对这些问题进行研究、审查和随后的传播，为英国政策和机构提供信息是至关重要的，因为：（1）政策制定者需要了解全球其他地方正在发生的事情，以了解这里类似变化的潜在影响和机遇； (2) 信息通信技术促成的协调分散化似乎是能源系统中规模和性质前所未有的变化，对基础设施、所有权、商业模式和社会偏好产生快速、巨大的影响，而且这些影响无法被完全理解或不一定可控； (3) 协调的权力下放可能是连接个人的成功方式，从而促进更快地转向更智能、更高效、以需求为中心的系统； (4) 协调分权的技术途径可能会更好地减少破坏的潜在负面影响，或进一步实现更好的破坏“管理”。这些问题导致分析的三个阶段：变化的本质；对变化的反应是什么？和情境化变革。这些答案将对英国能源系统的治理产生重要影响，特别是在如何制定提供更大灵活性、适应性和响应能力的政策和机构方面。图解工作计划中详细列出了有限元的关键问题。传播也将分为两个阶段。这在影响之路中进行了详细讨论，由以下部分组成：首先，结论和建议阶段，总结针对不同受众的关键成果。其次，除了期刊出版等标准学术目标之外，FE 的主要传播目标是成为一个网络中心，通过进一步的博客、在 Twitter 上更积极的存在、致力于 MOOC 的出版，进一步参与有关能源系统变革的辩论；通过网络研讨会、研讨会和更广泛的国际联系。

项目成果

'ReCosting Energy - Powering for the future report'

“重新计算能源成本——为未来报告提供动力”

• 发表时间: 2020
• 作者: Laura Sandys

Policy, politics and materiality across scales: A framework for understanding local government sustainable energy capacity applied in England

跨尺度的政策、政治和实质性：了解英格兰地方政府可持续能源能力的框架

• DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2019.101367
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Energy Research & Social Science
• 影响因子: 6.7
• 作者: Kuzemko C

Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy and Natural Resources

国际能源和自然资源政治经济学手册

• 发表时间: 2018
• 作者: Baker, L.

The centre cannot (always) hold: Examining pathways towards energy system de-centralisation

• DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2019.109499
• 发表时间: 2020-02
• 期刊: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
• 影响因子: 15.9
• 作者: E. Judson;Oscar Fitch-Roy;T. Pownall;R. Bray;H. Poulter;I. Soutar;R. Lowes;P. Connor;J. Britton;B. Woodman;C. Mitchell

GOVERNING FOR A DECENTRALISED AND DECARBONISED ENERGY SYSTEM

治理分散和脱碳的能源系统

• 发表时间: 2018
• 作者: Britton J