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This chapter provides the main empirical conclusions, together with alternative analytical approaches, lessons from implementation challenges and the prospects for EU low-carbon research and innovation. The first key lesson from ten years’ experience with the SET-Plan concerns the mismatch between responsibility for governance and funding competence. Second, EU climate and energy market deployment ‘pull’ polices aligned only partly with the SET-Plan. The prospects for the revised SET-Plan are mixed. Its broader scope fits better with the diverse technology interests in Europe and may attract broader commitment, but may also pose new challenges as regards governance and funding. Alignment with future market-pull policies under EU’s new energy and climate policy framework for 2030 remains another major challenge.
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A new Energy Efficiency Directive was adopted in 2012.
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In 2011, China was the clear leader in energy storage R&D, followed by Japan, the EU and the United States . Solar and wind produce variable energy. Energy storage for geographically decoupling energy supply and demand has become a key emerging low-carbon technology. The focus is on reducing the costs of high-density storage and related development of thermo-chemical processes (JRC 2015).
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http://mission-innovation.net/. Accessed 13 June 2018.
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Eikeland, P.O., Skjærseth, J.B. (2020). Conclusions and Prospects. In: The Politics of Low-Carbon Innovation. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17913-7_6
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