Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Reports |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/76875 |
| Document | publication document |
| Title (Primary) | The German energy transition as a regime shift |
| Author | Strunz, S. |
| Journal | UFZ Discussion Papers |
| Year | 2013 |
| Department | OEKON |
| Volume | 10/2013 |
| Page To | 18 |
| Language | englisch |
| Keywords | energy system; energy transition; regime shift; renewable energy sources; resilience |
| Abstract | In this paper, I use the resilience framework to interpret the project of transforming the German energy system into a renewable energy sources (RES)-based system, the so-called Energiewende, as a regime shift. This regime shift comprises several transformations, which are currently altering the technological, political and economic system structure. To build my argument, I first sketch how technological, political and economic developments reduced the resilience of the conventional fossil-nuclear energy regime and created a new RES-regime. Second, I depict recent changes in German public discourse and energy policy as the shift to the RES-regime. Third, I highlight challenges involved with increasing the resilience of the RES-regime. In particular, sufficient resilience of the electricity transmission grid appears to be crucial for facilitating the transformation of the whole energy system. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=13819 |
| Strunz, S. (2013): The German energy transition as a regime shift UFZ Discussion Papers 10/2013 Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Leipzig, 18 pp. |
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