Renewable Energy Transformation or Fossil Fuel Backlash [electronic resource] : Vested Interests in the Political Economy /
Moe, Espen.author.
Renewable energy is rising within an energy system dominated by powerful vested energy interests in fossil fuels, nuclear and electric utilities. Analyzing renewables in six very different countries, the author argues that it is the extent to which states have controlled these vested interests that determines the success or failure of renewables.
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Renewable energy is rising within an energy system dominated by powerful vested energy interests in fossil fuels, nuclear and electric utilities. Analyzing renewables in six very different countries, the author argues that it is the extent to which states have controlled these vested interests that determines the success or failure of renewables.
Environmental policy.
Sustainable development.
Environmental economics.
Energy policy.
Energy and state.
Political economy.
Environmental Politics.
Sustainable Development.
Environmental Economics.
Energy Policy, Economics and Management.
International Political Economy.
Energy Policy, Economics and Management.