Making the Energiewende Happen Dr Making the Energiewende Happen Dr. Anna Pechan University of Oldenburg, Germany UBC Conference : Managing Decarbonization: The Cases of Canada and Germany Looking Forward: Innovations and Climate Change

Making the Energiewende Happen - Who and How. Dr Making the Energiewende Happen - Who and How? Dr. Anna Pechan University of Oldenburg, Germany UBC Conference : Managing Decarbonization: The Cases of Canada and Germany Looking Forward: Innovations and Climate Change

6 Theses on the Energiewende The Energiewende also needs to be understood as a societal process. Dr. Anna Pechan University of Oldenburg

6 Theses on the Energiewende The Energiewende also needs to be understood as a societal process. In the past actors new to the electricity system pushed the Energiewende. Dr. Anna Pechan University of Oldenburg

6 Theses on the Energiewende Installed capacity of renewable energy supply according to ownership in Germany in 2012 Public utilities Institutional and strategic investors Citizen participation (wider sense) trend research, Leuphana Universität (2013) Dr. Anna Pechan University of Oldenburg

6 Theses on the Energiewende Schmid et al. (2016a) Dr. Anna Pechan University of Oldenburg

6 Theses on the Energiewende The Energiewende also needs to be understood as a societal process. In the past actors new to the electricity system pushed the Energiewende. The preferred structural transformations of the energy system come with different principles, values and worldviews. Dr. Anna Pechan University of Oldenburg

6 Theses on the Energiewende Incumbents Challengers German electricity system Centralized/ large scale Decentralized/ small scale Schmid et al. (2016b) Dr. Anna Pechan University of Oldenburg

6 Theses on the Energiewende Example for centralized/ large scale vision Example for decentralized /small scale vision Abundant sustainable electricity Low-cost secure electricity Democratisation of energy Independence Lilliestam and Hanger (2016) Dr. Anna Pechan University of Oldenburg

6 Theses on the Energiewende The Energiewende also needs to be understood as a societal process. In the past actors new to the electricity system pushed the Energiewende. The preferred structural transformations of the energy system come with different principles, values and worldviews. The key factors towards centralized or decentralized transformation of the energy system will be decided in the political arena. Dr. Anna Pechan University of Oldenburg

6 Theses on the Energiewende The Energiewende also needs to be understood as a societal process. In the past actors new to the electricity system pushed the Energiewende. The preferred structural transformations of the energy system come with different principles, values and worldviews. The key factors towards centralized or decentralized transformation of the energy system will be decided in the political arena. Hence institutions matter. Dr. Anna Pechan University of Oldenburg

6 Theses on the Energiewende Market design and subsidy scheme influence spatial distribution of wind power plants Pechan (2016) Dr. Anna Pechan University of Oldenburg

6 Theses on the Energiewende The Energiewende also needs to be understood as a societal process. In the past actors new to the electricity system pushed the Energiewende. The preferred structural transformations of the energy system come with different principles, values and worldviews. The key factors towards centralized or decentralized transformation of the energy system will be decided in the political arena. Hence institutions matter. There are (currently) no clear camps visible; the industry and particularly the incumbents are still in an orientation phase. Dr. Anna Pechan University of Oldenburg

6 Theses on the Energiewende Incumbents Challengers Schmid et al. (2016b) Dr. Anna Pechan University of Oldenburg

Summing up A lot remains to be done before transition is completed Public approval of the Energiewende is still high “The Energiewende is our moon landing“ (Peter Altmaier, former Minister of the Environment, 2012) Non-Germans may think we are crazy… … but maybe we only show sensible societal risk-management (Jasanoff and Kim, 2013) Dr. Anna Pechan University of Oldenburg

Thank you! Contact details: anna.pechan@uni-oldenburg.de https://www.uni-oldenburg.de/en/wire/vwl/environment-and-development-economics/team/anna-pechan/ Project homepage: www.de-zentral.de/en Dr. Anna Pechan University of Oldenburg

References Altmaier, P. (2012): „Die Energiewende war unsere Mondlandung“, in: Die Welt, https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article110381084/Die-Energiewende-war-unsere- Mondlandung.html Jasanoff, S., S.-H. Kim (2013): Sociotechnical Imaginaries and National Energy Policies, in: Science as Culture, 22, 189-196 Lilliestam, J., S. Hanger (2016): Shades of green: Centralisation, decentralisation and controversy among European renewable electricity visions, in: Energy Research & Social Science, 17, 20-29 Pechan, A. (2016): Where do all the windmills go? Influences on spatial distribution of renewable energy installation, under review Schmid, E., B. Knopf, A. Pechan (2016a): Putting an energy system transformation into practice: The case of the German Energiewende, in: Energy Research & Social Science, 11, 263-275 Schmid, E., A. Pechan, M. Mehnert, K. Eisenack (2016b): Imagine all these futures: On heterogeneous preferences and mental models in the German energy transition, under review Trend research, Leuphana Universität (2013): Definition und Marktanalyse von Bürgerenergie in Deutschland Dr. Anna Pechan University of Oldenburg