Lecture 9: A governance perspective on planning the energy transition / Tennet Flashcards

Question

What are Agency-oriented institutional theories?

Answer 1

She looked at how actors change institutions (endogeneous insititutional change).

Answer 2

Internal: what is our role? External: talking to the other people.

Answer 3

improving alignment and coordination between competing or alternative frameworks across sectors and scales. We don't know how the transition can be done, experiments should be done. Not always say incremental change is bad. Can also lead to progression

Answer 4

Distribution injustice: Costs and burdens distribution uneven allocation of benefits and impacts over time and space. Recognition injustice: How well people can still live in this area where it's happening. How much impact it has on social networks of these people. not recognizing parts of society that suffer from the impacts of energy systems in the sphere of law, status order and ability to build loving relationships. Procedural injustice: Are people involved? Lack of equal access to decision-making processes and full disclosure of info.

Answer 5

Factor 1: ‘ The sharing solution’ * further growth of geothermal energy, where geographical concentration is inevitable. But involving local people. Factor 2 ‘There is no solution’ * there is no room for further development of geothermal energy in the regions that have experienced most growth so far. Factor 3 ’The technocratic solution’ * pride in the quick development of the geothermal sector and considers it a big success. Factor 4 ‘ The regulatory solution’ * high potential of geothermal energy in Turkey, but considers the regulatory system underdeveloped.

Answer 6

F1 sharing solution: further growth geogthermal energy. Relates to distribution justice: investors need to be held accountable F2: There is not solution relates to recognition injustice: actors in the area feel like they are not taken seriously. Plants can make environmental massacres. F3: Technocratic solution - no call for justice F4 regulatory soluiton relates to procedural justice: correct rules it will be fine.

Answer 7

Formal: clear and direct. Legal framework Informal: more vague. how people interact among parties, how they act along organizational cultures and how people can interact.

Answer 8

 supply-oriented policy instruments: stimulate the supply side of innovation, for example by providing subsidies to private firms to support their R&D activities  demand-oriented policy instruments: stimulate the market for innovative products and services, for example by public procurement or mandatory standards

Answer 9

Delivery capacity: an authority’s capability to make things happen; it consists of the resources that governments use to perform their primary tasks at the policy frontline (Lodge and Wegrich, 2014). → relates to its treasure; it includes for example grants and loans and, in modern times, research funding - Analytical capacity: based on the information that authorities have at their disposal and use to make policy choices; it is the knowledge that informs decision making. It addresses demands on forecasting and intelligence that informs policy making under conditions of uncertainty (Lodge and Wegrich, 2014) → relates to the governing resource nodality and stems for example from the state’s access to networks of expertise - Coordination capacity: the capacity to ‘bring the necessary actors together to achieve problem-solving (Lodge and Wegrich, 2014). Besides being one of the participants in collaborative governance, government can act as the organizer or facilitator of the process, bringing participants together and aligning organisations from different backgrounds under often tricky conditions - Regulatory capacity: the modern state’s capacity to prohibit or permit and refers to the government’s power to constrain economic and social activities. It is based on the governing resource, authority; associated policy instruments are regulations and licences, and in modern states, labelling, treaties and political agreements → governments can stimulate innovation by using their regulatory capacity to abolish or adjust rules or draft new ones

Answer 10

* results show that institutional barriers experienced by various actors are often interrelated. * internal harmonization within the respective policy domainsisacrucial firststep * Agency component is crucial for succesful harmonization because actors are dealing with a lack of knowledge and experience here. * institutional harmonization becomes dependent on organizational cultures and individual characteristics.

Lecture 9: A governance perspective on planning the energy transition / Tennet Flashcards

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