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来源类型 | Article |
规范类型 | 其他 |
DOI | 10.1016/j.erss.2015.11.004 |
ISBN | 2214-6296 |
Financing the civic energy sector: How financial institutions affect ownership models in Germany and the United Kingdom. | |
Hall, Stephen; Foxon, Timothy J; Bolton, Ronan | |
发表日期 | 2016-02-01 |
出处 | Energy Research & Social Science |
出版者 | Elsevier |
出版年 | 2016 |
页码 | 5-15 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | This paper examines the relations between financing institutions and more local ownership structures for energy provision. This research defines municipal and civil society structures involved in energy provision as the ‘Civic Energy Sector’. It argues that the financial institutions of nations are key enabling institutions for this sector to contribute to a low carbon energy transition. The path of development of these financial institutions helps to shape the ownership structures and technology choices of energy systems and futures in different nations. This paper presents findings from case analysis comparing the United Kingdom’s latent civic energy sector, with the expansion of this sector in Germany. Using an institutional economics framing, the paper demonstrates the importance of the German local banking sector in facilitating civic ownership structures in that country. In contrast, the neo-liberal, market-led financial institutions in the UK, reinforce energy pathways less reliant on civic ownership models. Hence, the forms of low carbon energy transition being pursued in these countries are constrained by path dependence of institutions both within and beyond the energy sector. |
特色分类 | H Social Sciences (General)$HG4501 Investment, capital formation, speculation |
关键词 | Civic energy sector, institutional economics , energy transitions, energy ownership |
URL | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/59254/ |
来源智库 | Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/468638 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Hall, Stephen,Foxon, Timothy J,Bolton, Ronan. Financing the civic energy sector: How financial institutions affect ownership models in Germany and the United Kingdom.. 2016. |
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