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Paradigm shift in Danish wind power: the (un)sustainable transformation of a sector
Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning ( IF 3.977 ) Pub Date : 2020-08-05 , DOI: 10.1080/1523908x.2020.1799769
Julia Kirch Kirkegaard 1 , Tom Cronin 1 , Sophie Nyborg 2 , Peter Karnøe 3
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ABSTRACT

The Danish wind power sector grew out of a combination of small and medium-sized entrepreneurial firms and local pioneers forming small-scale wind farm cooperatives. This paper studies the initial organisation and subsequent transformation of the socio-technical assemblage or ‘agencement’ around wind power in Denmark, focusing on the changing roles and agency of electricity producers. We propose a conceptual model for mapping the transformation over time, following five entangled dimensions: capitalisation instruments, turbine technology, capital investment, regulation of finance and ownership modes. We show how changes in all five socio-material dimensions have produced a ‘paradigm shift’, reconfiguring wind power from a distributed power source to critical infrastructure. This shift has marginalised local players and mobilised new types of producers and ownership forms. Using the conceptual model, we map the controversy resulting from the paradigm shift. Our relational lens of market studies within Science & Technology Studies captures how wind power’s ‘sustainability’ has become contested, and how this cannot be understood as a matter of ‘community acceptance’ dissociated from material factors. Proposing our conceptual model for future studies, we contribute not only to the extant social acceptance literature, but also to critical energy debates on the governance of climate change and sustainability.



中文翻译:

丹麦风电的范式转变:部门的(不可持续的)转型

摘要

丹麦的风电部门是由中小型企业家企业和当地的先驱者组成的小型风电场合作社共同发展而来的。本文研究了围绕丹麦风力发电的社会技术组合或“机构”的最初组织及其随后的转变,重点是发电商的角色和代理机构的变化。我们提出了一个概念模型,用于绘制随时间变化的变换,遵循以下五个纠缠维度:资本化工具,涡轮技术,资本投资,金融监管和所有权模式。我们展示了这五个社会物质维度的变化如何产生了“范式转变”,从而将风力从分布式电源重新配置为关键基础设施。这种转变使边缘化的地方企业边缘化,动员了新型的生产者和所有权形式。使用概念模型,我们可以绘制出范式转换所引起的争议。我们在《科学与技术研究》中的市场研究关系镜头捕捉到了风力发电的“可持续性”是如何受到争议的,以及如何将其理解为与物质因素无关的“社区接受度”问题。为未来的研究提出我们的概念模型,我们不仅为现有的社会认可文献做出了贡献,而且为有关气候变化和可持续性治理的重要能源辩论做出了贡献。技术研究记录了风能的“可持续性”是如何引起争议的,以及如何将其理解为与物质因素无关的“社区接受”问题。为未来的研究提出我们的概念模型,我们不仅为现有的社会认可文献做出了贡献,而且为有关气候变化和可持续性治理的重要能源辩论做出了贡献。技术研究记录了风能的“可持续性”是如何引起争议的,以及如何将其理解为与物质因素无关的“社区接受”问题。为未来的研究提出我们的概念模型,我们不仅为现有的社会认可文献做出了贡献,而且为有关气候变化和可持续性治理的重要能源辩论做出了贡献。

更新日期:2020-08-05
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