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Political Challenges in Managing Transitions of Energy Systems Beyond Pure Energy-Economic Modelling

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The political model of the social planner, or benevolent dictator, upon which economic energy system modelling is based, is greatly simplified. Real situations are much more complex. The various administrative levels with their different legislative expertise or the plurality of regions and nations involved in decisions about the future energy supply are not sufficiently examined in techno-economic analyses of the energy sector as outlined in the previous chapters.

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    The lead study (Leitstudie) 2008 for the Federal Ministry of Environment (Nitsch 2008) forecasted a total installed capacity of PV cells of about 12 GW for the year 2015. Actually, more than 32 GW had already been installed by the end of 2012 (BMWi 2013).

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  1. EA European Academy of Technology and Innovation Assessment GmbH, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany

    Bert Droste-Franke

  2. Philosophy, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

    Martin Carrier

  3. Svt, University of Bergen, Mons, Norway

    Matthias Kaiser

  4. Research Centre for Environmental Policy, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Miranda Schreurs

  5. Chair for Energy, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

    Christoph Weber

  6. Department of Economics and UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Thomas Ziesemer

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Droste-Franke, B., Carrier, M., Kaiser, M., Schreurs, M., Weber, C., Ziesemer, T. (2015). Political Challenges in Managing Transitions of Energy Systems Beyond Pure Energy-Economic Modelling. In: Improving Energy Decisions. Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment, vol 42. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11346-3_7

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