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Ecological Modernisation and renewables

Ecological Modernisation and renewables. David Toke, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy, University of Birmingham. Electricity regime – niche market?. Ecological modernisation. Mainstream technology-market focus (Mol, Huber, Janicke etc)

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Ecological Modernisation and renewables

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  1. Ecological Modernisation and renewables David Toke, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy, University of Birmingham

  2. Electricity regime – niche market?

  3. Ecological modernisation • Mainstream technology-market focus (Mol, Huber, Janicke etc) • Critical social movement deliberative focus (Hajer, Christoff)

  4. social movement activity in Renewable Energy • Idealism as an initial substitute for economic rationality (bridge to EM) • Cosmology, technology, organisation (Jamison)

  5. Cosmology

  6. German Biogas Association http://www.biogas.org/

  7. Danish ‘bricolage’ (Karnoe) • Energy crisis, anti-nuclear ideals • Danish rural co-op tradition • Sharing knowledge for common good

  8. Marine Current Turbines

  9. Intermediate technology (Schumacher)

  10. Power from below • ‘co-evolution’ of technology (Geels 2004) • Uses as renewable energy producers

  11. Pelamis Wave Power http://www.pelamiswave.com/galleryimages.php

  12. Explanations for outcomes Ross (1997) Watt (1998) Winskel (2007)

  13. Conventional industry • Industrial based design • Maximised economic return • Patent based knowledge protection

  14. Implications for policy • R&D support for in-situ machines • Regime access with initial generous support • Start small, evolve bigger (Schumpeter) • ‘Bottom up’/non-regime actors are very important

  15. Implications for theory • EM involves social movements in developing technology (van der Poel) • Idealism as a institution • Importance of users as generators • EM has stages of development

  16. Renewable as mainstream • ‘We need to bring about a revolution in the way energy is produced …..Imagine you are pin-striped revolutionaries in the spirit of Che Guevara on the Sierra Madre’ • Mike O’Brien, Minister for Energy 29/03/09

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