Promoting sustainable electricity in Europe challenging the path dependence of dominant energy systems /
This is a timely and comparative assessment of initiatives to promote renewable electricity sources (RES-E) in eight European countries. Carried out by the ProSus research programme at the University of Oslo in cooperation with leading research institutions in each country, the book focuses on the p...
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Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass. :
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : promoting green electricity in Europe : the challenge of integrating contextual factors / William M. Lafferty and Audun Ruud
- 2. The Netherlands : muddling through in the Dutch. delta / Maarten J. Arentsen
- 3. Denmark : path-creation dynamics and winds of change / Peter Karnøe and Adam Buchhorn
- 4. Ireland : putting the wind up the political system / Gerard Mullally and Jillian Murphy
- 5. Spain : greening electricity while growing the economy / Carmen Navarro
- 6. Finland : big is beautiful - promoting bioenergy in regional-industrial contexts / Paula Kivimaa
- 7. Austria : an 'incidental front-runner' faces new challenges / Barbara Pflüglmayer, Christian Nopp, Volkmar Lauber and Michael Narodoslawsky
- 8. Sweden : greening the power market in a context of liberalization and nuclear ambivalence / Yong Chen and Francis X. Johnson
- 9. Norway : trying to maintain maximal RES-E in a petroleum-driven economy / Jørgen Knudsen, Olav Mosvold Larsen and Audun Ruud
- 10. Conclusion : energy path dependence and the promotion of RES-E in Europe / William M. Lafferty and Audun Ruud.