Local Authorities and Sustainable Energy Innovations: Decentralisation, Institutional Capacity and Civic Participation

地方当局和可持续能源创新：权力下放、机构能力和公民参与

• 批准号: ES/N017765/1
• 负责人: Caroline Kuzemko
• 金额: $ 11.61万
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 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=ES%2FN017765%2F1
• 关键词: Local; Authorities; Sustainable; Energy; Innovations

Both energy and political landscapes are changing in the UK, but so far no analysis has considered how these movements towards greater decentralisation relate to one another. Indeed, local authorities are becoming increasingly involved in enabling and providing sustainable energy programmes whilst, at the same time, many are applying for and securing devolution deals. Some scholars and policy analysts have argued that decentralising energy will be vital in securing popular buy-in to sustainable energy transitions through greater civic participation whilst others are point towards the power of the local in delivering better-attuned services. This research project will reveal the details of how these two decentralisation movements interact with one another in practice by exploring and mapping five local authority sustainable energy programmes and critically examining their relationships with central government. This research is timely and innovative. It is timely because according to the Climate Change Committee (CCC), whose job it is to monitor the UK's progress on climate mitigation, the UK is at risk of missing its Fourth Carbon Budget and because central government support for solar and wind generation has also recently been cut (Energy Spectrum 2015). At the same time, however, local authorities have been emerging as one area of innovation with regard to sustainable energy, partly by creating new energy companies that operate according to non-traditional business models and partly by offering supply services focused on affordability. The project is innovative in that it combines conceptual insights from socio-technical transitions, political science and human geography to reveal the emerging role of local authorities in sustainable transitions whilst also exploring these changes within the context of political decentralisation. This project has been designed with input from Ofgem, the Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE) and two local government personnel. It aims to engage on a regular basis with practitioners and stakeholders at the local authority level with the intention of on-going knowledge exchange and co-production about this fast changing area. The project is also designed so that local authorities will have the opportunity to engage with one-another through a targeted, practitioners' workshop. Towards the end of the project findings about how local authorities and central government work together in practice, in particular with regard constraints and opportunities for improvement, will be shared with Ofgem, the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and local authority networks such as the Local Government Association. The findings from this research project should be relevant not only to academics working on local government and local energy in the UK, but also to scholars interested in questions of scale and of civic participation in sustainable energy transitions. By undertaking and completing this project the PI will be given a valuable opportunity to develop and further improve her research skills, create new networks, produce groundbreaking research and to continue on her trajectory to becoming a world leader in the field of climate and energy governance.

英国的能源和政治格局都在发生变化，但到目前为止，还没有任何分析考虑这些走向更大权力下放的运动相互之间的关系。事实上，地方当局越来越多地参与支持和提供可持续能源方案，与此同时，许多地方当局正在申请和确保权力下放协议。一些学者和政策分析师认为，分散能源对于通过更多的公民参与确保民众接受向可持续能源过渡至关重要，而另一些人则指出，地方政府在提供更协调的服务方面具有力量。这项研究项目将通过探索和绘制五个地方当局可持续能源计划并批判性地检查它们与中央政府的关系，揭示这两个权力下放运动在实践中如何相互作用的细节。这一研究具有时效性和创新性。这是及时的，因为气候变化委员会(CCC)的工作是监督英国在气候缓解方面的进展，英国面临着错过第四个碳预算的风险，而且中央政府对太阳能和风能发电的支持最近也被削减(Energy Spectrum 2015)。然而，与此同时，地方当局已经成为可持续能源方面的一个创新领域，部分是通过创建按照非传统商业模式运营的新能源公司，部分是通过提供注重可负担性的供应服务。该项目的创新之处在于，它结合了社会技术转型、政治学和人文地理学的概念见解，揭示了地方当局在可持续转型中的新角色，同时也在政治权力下放的背景下探索这些变化。该项目的设计得到了Ofgem、可持续能源中心(CSE)和两名地方政府人员的支持。它旨在与地方当局一级的从业人员和利益攸关方定期接触，目的是就这一快速变化的领域不断交流知识和共同制作。该项目的设计也是为了使地方当局有机会通过有针对性的从业人员讲习班相互接触。在项目接近尾声时，将与Ofgem、能源和气候变化部(DECC)和地方政府协会等地方当局网络分享关于地方当局和中央政府在实践中如何合作的调查结果，特别是关于制约因素和改进机会的结论。这一研究项目的发现不仅应该与致力于英国地方政府和当地能源的学者相关，也应该与对规模问题和公民参与可持续能源过渡感兴趣的学者相关。通过承担和完成这一项目，国际和平研究所将获得一个宝贵的机会来发展和进一步提高她的研究技能，创建新的网络，进行开创性的研究，并继续在她成为气候和能源治理领域的世界领导者的道路上前进。

项目成果

Re-scaling IPE: local government, sustainable energy and change

重新调整 IPE：地方政府、可持续能源和变革

• DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2018.1527239
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Review of International Political Economy
• 影响因子: 4.3
• 作者: Kuzemko C

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

New directions in the international political economy of energy

国际能源政治经济新方向

• DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2018.1553796
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Review of International Political Economy
• 影响因子: 4.3
• 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.