The Political Economy of Renewable Energy and Energy Security

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Espen Moe

      Pages 1-18

3. Energy Security

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. What is Strategic about Energy? De-simplifying Energy Security

      • Gunnar Fermann

      Pages 21-45

   3. The Energy Security of Japan after Fukushima 3/11

      • Frank Umbach

      Pages 46-66

   4. The Impact of 3–11 on Japanese Public Opinion and Policy Toward Energy Security

      • Paul Midford

      Pages 67-96

   5. China’s Energy Security

      • Øystein Tunsjø

      Pages 97-115

   6. The Norwegian Energy Security Debate: Domestic and International Dimensions

      • Jakub M. Godzimirski

      Pages 116-136

4. Renewable Technologies and Politics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. Technologies for Electricity Generation in Wind Turbines

      • Bogi Bech Jensen, Tore Undeland

      Pages 139-156

   3. Early Promoter of Solar Photovoltaics: Forty Years of Development of Policy and Technology in Japan

      • Kenji Asano

      Pages 157-174

   4. Smart, but is It Sustainable? The Importance of Reconciling Non-Technical Concerns in Grid-Development Policies

      • Ole Andreas Brekke, Hogne Leroy Sataoen

      Pages 175-193

5. Energy and Politics: Solutions and Policy Frameworks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195

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   2. A Review of Renewable Energy Legislation and Policies in China

      • Yu Wang

      Pages 197-220

   3. From ‘Worn’ to ‘Green’ China Model? Energy in the 12th Five-Year Plan in an Environmental and Climate-Change Perspective

      • Jørgen Delman, Ole Odgaard

      Pages 221-240

   4. Enabling China’s Low-Carbon Transition: The 12th Five-Year Plan and the Future Climate Regime

      • Jiangwen Guo, Eric Zusman, Espen Moe

      Pages 241-257

   5. The German Policy Support Mechanism for Photovoltaics: The Road to Grid Parity

      • Karolina Jankowska

      Pages 258-275

   6. Vested Interests, Energy Policy and Renewables in Japan, China, Norway and Denmark

      • Espen Moe

      Pages 276-317

6. Conclusions

   1. Conclusions

      • Paul Midford

      Pages 318-324

7. Back Matter

   Pages 325-333

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Bringing together renewable energy and energy security, this book covers both the politics and political economy of renewables and energy security and analyzes renewable technologies in diverse and highly topical countries: Japan, China and Northern Europe.

• climate change
• development
• electricity
• energy
• energy policy
• environment
• Europe
• photovoltaics
• political economy
• renewable energy
• transition
• wind

• Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

  Espen Moe, Paul Midford

Kenji Asano, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan Jørgen Delman, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Gunnar Fermann, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway Jakub M. Godzimirski, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Norway Jiangwen Guo, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan Karolina Jankowska, Fraunhofer Centre for Central and Eastern Europe MOEZ, Germany Bogi Bech Jensen, University of the Faroe Islands, Faroe Islands Ole Odgaard, Danish Energy Agency, Denmark Audun Ruud, SINTEF Energy Research Øystein Tunsjø, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, Norway Frank Umbach, King's College London, UK Tore Undeland, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway Yu Wang Tsinghua University, China Eric Zusman, Institute for Global Environmental Studies, Japan

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