Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Life of a Vision: Power and Energy Justice in the Mediterranean Region

该项目将研究沙漠技术工业倡议(DII)，这是一家独特的德国公司，拥有56家股东和合作伙伴公司，设想在北非建设40座大型太阳能和风能发电厂，这些发电厂将连接到地中海地区的综合传输网络，为欧洲和北非提供可持续和负担得起的电力。沙漠技术中心的规模和雄心巨大，它本身以及作为其他区域类似企业的榜样都需要受到关注。这项研究将分析利益相关者如何设想和设计一个区域可持续能源系统。该项目使用混合领域方法来分析时间和背景内的话语和社会变化及其潜在的权力动态。这项研究将追溯这一愿景？S从一开始的演变，从关于地中海能源一体化的更广泛的论述；从它随着迪拜国际和平研究所的成立而制度化；到它现在在摩洛哥开始建设时的概念验证。方法包括在德国和摩洛哥的实地考察、访谈和文件分析。沙漠技术基金会？S的更广泛的愿景是为世界上90%的人口提供沙漠中的可再生能源。地中海地区强大的公司和决策者正在动员这一愿景，需要进行系统研究。该项目将提供关于能源正义的跨文化视角，并在北非这一未得到充分研究和充满活力的地区阐述能源话语。其次，它将使DII能够预见到其设计和设计过程中出现的不公正，而这些不公正仍然是可塑的。第三，它将为欧洲清洁能源发展的最佳实践提供经验教训，为美国的可再生能源创新计划做出贡献。结果将通过与美国和地中海政策制定者和DII成员的会议、为沙漠技术知识平台撰写的分析以及提交给联合国人人享有可持续能源倡议的能源正义备忘录来传播。

This project will study the Desertec Industrial Initiative (Dii), a unique German corporation with 56 shareholder and partner companies, which envisions building 40 large-scale solar and wind power plants in North Africa that will be connected to an integrated transmission network in the Mediterranean region to provide sustainable and affordable electricity for Europe and North Africa. Desertec is immense in scale and ambition, demanding attention both in its own right and as a model for similar enterprises in other regions. This research will analyze how stakeholders envision and design a regional sustainable energy system. The project employs mixed field methods to analyze discursive and social changes within time and context and their underlying power dynamics. The research will trace the vision?s evolution from its inception, couched in terms of a broader discourse on Mediterranean energy integration; through its institutionalization with Dii's founding; to its present proof-of-concept as construction begins in Morocco. Methods include fieldwork in Germany and Morocco, interviews, and document analysis.The Desertec Foundation?s broader vision seeks to provide 90% of the world's population with renewable energy from deserts. This vision, which is being mobilized in the Mediterranean by powerful companies and decision-makers, demands systematic study. This project will offer cross-cultural perspectives on energy justice and articulate energy discourses in North Africa, an understudied and dynamic region. Second, it will enable Dii to anticipate injustices arising from its design and design process while they are still malleable. Third, it will offer lessons for best practices from European clean energy development to contribute to U.S. plans for renewable energy innovation. Results will be disseminated through meetings with U.S. and Mediterranean policymakers and Dii members, analysis written for the Desertec Knowledge Platform, and an energy justice memo to the U.N. Sustainable Energy for All Initiative.