TY  - GEN
A1  - Thonig, Richard
A1  - Del Rio, Pablo
A1  - Kiefer, Christoph
A1  - Lazaro Touza, Lara
A1  - Escribano, Gonzalo
A1  - Lechon, Yolanda
A1  - Spaeth, Leonhard
A1  - Wolf, Ingo
A1  - Lilliestam, Johan
T1  - Does ideology influence the ambition level of climate and renewable energy policy?
BT  - Insights from four European countries
T2  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - We investigate whether political ideology has an observable effect on decarbonization ambition, renewable power aims, and preferences for power system balancing technologies in four European countries. Based on the Energy Logics framework, we identify ideologically different transition strategies (state-centered, market-centered, grassroots-centered) contained in government policies and opposition party programs valid in 2019. We compare these policies and programs with citizen poll data. We find that ideology has a small effect: governments and political parties across the spectrum have similar, and relatively ambitious, decarbonization and renewables targets. This mirrors citizens' strong support for ambitious action regardless of their ideological self-description. However, whereas political positions on phasing out fossil fuel power are clear across the policy space, positions on phasing in new flexibility options to balance intermittent renewables are vague or non-existent. As parties and citizens agree on strong climate and renewable power aims, the policy ambition is likely to remain high, even if governments change.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 161 
KW  - political ideology
KW  - climate policy
KW  - energy policy
KW  - europe
KW  - european
KW  - Union
KW  - renewable energy
KW  - flexibility
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-577981
SN  - 1867-5808
IS  - 1
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Tröndle, Tim
A1  - Lilliestam, Johan
A1  - Marelli, Stefano
A1  - Pfenninger, Stefan
T1  - Trade-offs between geographic scale, cost, and infrastructure requirements for fully renewable electricity in Europe
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - The European potential for renewable electricity is sufficient to enable fully renewable supply on different scales, from self-sufficient, subnational regions to an interconnected continent. We not only show that a continental-scale system is the cheapest, but also that systems on the national scale and below are possible at cost penalties of 20% or less. Transmission is key to low cost, but it is not necessary to vastly expand the transmission system. When electricity is transmitted only to balance fluctuations, the transmission grid size is comparable to today's, albeit with expanded cross-border capacities. The largest differences across scales concern land use and thus social acceptance: in the continental system, generation capacity is concentrated on the European periphery, where the best resources are. Regional systems, in contrast, have more dispersed generation. The key trade-off is therefore not between geographic scale and cost, but between scale and the spatial distribution of required generation and transmission infrastructure.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 146 
KW  - levelized cost
KW  - energy-system
KW  - power-system
KW  - storage
KW  - wind
KW  - reanalysis
KW  - decarbonization
KW  - transmission
KW  - integration
KW  - deployment
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-539611
IS  - 9
SP  - 1929
EP  - 1948
ER  -