Are Low-Carbon Futures Decentralised?

Edited by Siddharth Sareen, Per Ove Eikeland and Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg, the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway

‘The words “governance” and “decentralisation” appear frequently in discussions of energy transitions and energy and climate policy but are often deployed unreflectively and carelessly. This book masterfully brings together more than 30 world-leading scholars to explore both topics with unmatched depth of insight coupled with a rich breadth of topics, from the quantum level all the way to how people envision collective global futures. Seminal reading for students and decision makers alike.’

• Contents1 Are low-carbon futures decentralised? Directional flows inthe changing governance of collective electricity systems 1Siddharth Sareen, Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg and PerOve Eikeland PART I CONCEPTUAL AND ANALYTICAL APPROACHES 262 Designing institutional technologies for decentralised energygovernance 27Viktor Bukovszki and Michael Mrissa 3 Quantum transformation of electrical systems: the potentialfor decentralisation of infrastructures, governance, andorganisational structures 38Boris Kantsepolsky 4 Transition tensions: transmission lines in visions of EuropeanUnion decentralisation 50Daniel Wuebben 5 The concept of building a structurally variable power system 61Sergii Saukh 6 How distributed energy will affect the existing power system 76Fereidoon Sioshansi 7 Weather, shifting demands and conflict: analysing electricoutages across the European Union and Ukraine 86Thomas Ptak and Julie Brooks 8 Regional energy hubs with integrated hydrogen in theNetherlands: an exploratory design perspective 96Mahshid Hasankhani 9 Scale, governance and net zero: decentralisation versuscentralisation in electricity 107Michael Pollitt 10 Transformation to a polycentric grid with distributed energysystems 122Maarten Wolsink PART II NATIONAL AND SUB-NATIONAL CASE STUDIES 13311 Citizen participation in the electricity system: a reflection onenergy democracy in Swedish energy communities 134Jenny Palm 12 Energy infrastructure planning for positive energy citydistricts: the sector-coupling pathways for the new city districtof Dietenbach in Freiburg, Germany 145Arian Mahzouni 13 Decentralised energy management in households throughevent-driven tariffs and smart meters: a German case study 156Claudius Kübler, Jiayin Fu and Matthias Grandel 14 Halfway to decentralisation? Understanding the energyparadigm shift in Italy 171Giada F.P. Coleandro 15 Designing a multi-level organisational model forimplementing sustainable energy communities in Colombia 181Georg Heinemann, Ana María Ramírez Tovar and Pasha Alidadi 16 Building back better? Reviewing scenarios of a decentralisedpost-war electricity system in Ukraine 194Nadiya Kostyuchenko, Cristian Pons-Seres de Brauwer,Adrian Rinscheid and Rolf Wüstenhagen 17 Centralisation and decentralisation of Norwegian utilities 211Kjersti Aarrestad and Jørgen Bjørndalen 18 ‘Future-gazing’: how floating offshore wind can revitaliseEuropean large energy-intensive industries 224Julian Gregory 19 Electric futures in Türkiye: decentralisation, regulatorytrends, and carbon tax implications 235Mine Sertsöz 20 Conclusion: three overarching themes for understandingdecentralisation in future low-carbon electricity systems 244Per Ove Eikeland, Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg andSiddharth Sareen