15.01.2020 - New publication: Storylines in energy transition
A new article from Simon Funcke and Chantal Ruppert-Winkel has been published in the high-impact Journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. It delves into the question of who supports a centralised or decentralised pathway for the energy transition in Germany and which arguments or storylines are propagated by these discourse coalitions.
Three discourse coalitions address the technical infrastructure dimensions in different focus. The coalition "economic efficiency“ especially supports centralised solutions, while the second coalition "renewables first“ supports centralised as well as decentralised options. Both coalitions are well-established on the national level. On the other hand, the third coalition "citizen energy“ that supports the decentralised approach, is comparatively less established.
- Funcke, S., Ruppert-Winkel, C. (2020): Storylines of (de)centralisation: Exploring infrastructure dimensions in the German electricity system. In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 121, 109652. ----- Click here to view the article.