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In this chapter, we compare this book with what in many ways was its predecessor, The Political Economy of Renewable Energy and Energy Security (Moe and Midford (eds.) The Political Economy of Renewable Energy and Energy Security: Common Challenges and National Responses in Japan, China and Northern Europe. Houndsmill, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2014). This volume looks at challenges that were still in the future back in 2014. Then, renewable energy policy was primarily about support systems, such as FITs, and about rapidly phasing in renewable energy from a very low base. The present book instead recognizes that as ever more renewable energy was phased into the grid, grid systems and the lack of energy storage became the next obstacles to a renewable energy transition, not government support systems for rapid installation. And yet, while the challenges are changing, the countries we looked at in 2014 are in many ways still distinctly recognizable. Their policy challenges are in many ways similar, as are the ways in which they deal with them. Thus, for policymakers, the renewable energy transition to a major extent still consists of muddling through, pragmatically solving problems as they arise, as much as it consists of gazing far ahead into the future.
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Moe, E. (2021). Conclusions. In: Midford, P., Moe, E. (eds) New Challenges and Solutions for Renewable Energy. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54514-7_15
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