This article explores one of the most critical challenges for public and private actors attempting to achieve deep decarbonisation: how to develop and decide on decarbonisation solutions in the face of deep uncertainty and significant coordination difficulties. Through the lens of experimentation, the article presents the case of Australia and its efforts to reconfigure its national electricity grid, focussing on the roles and governance approach adopted for a key institution, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, and its Accelerator Lab, which are at the leading edge of experimentation. The article demonstrates how experimentation can be governed by a combination of institutional, regulatory and funding tools to generate new knowledge and decarbonisation solutions in a context where no one entity has all of the answers or can deliver all of the required outcomes. It shows that in the context of experimentation, the role of law and governance is transformed from a direct regulatory role to one that constructs and implements a protected arena designed to incentivise, identify, coordinate, protect and disseminate innovation. The article then provides key insights regarding the governance framework needed to conduct various forms of experimentation, a concept and practice that is politically challenging and constantly evolving.

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电力部门脱碳治理实验

本文探讨了试图实现深度脱碳的公共和私人参与者面临的最关键挑战之一：面对高度不确定性和重大协调困难，如何制定和决定脱碳解决方案。本文通过实验的视角，介绍了澳大利亚的案例及其重新配置国家电网的努力，重点介绍了澳大利亚可再生能源局及其加速器实验室这一关键机构的角色和治理方法。实验的前沿。本文展示了如何通过制度、监管和融资工具的结合来管理实验，以在没有任何一个实体拥有所有答案或能够提供所有所需结果的情况下产生新知识和脱碳解决方案。它表明，在实验的背景下，法律和治理的作用从直接监管作用转变为构建和实施旨在激励、识别、协调、保护和传播创新的受保护领域。然后，本文提供了有关进行各种形式的实验所需的治理框架的关键见解，这是一个在政治上具有挑战性且不断发展的概念和实践。