The Sun Also Rises in Portugal
Ambitions of Just Solar Energy Transitions
Seiten
2024
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-4210-2 (ISBN)
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-4210-2 (ISBN)
Portugal has recently achieved a five-fold increase in solar capacity and its National Energy and Climate Plan has set an ambitious future target. This book considers whether this ambition will bear out in practice, and how social justice might be addressed, in a one-stop resource for policy makers, practitioners and scholars.
This book addresses how a country with Europe’s best solar irradiation potential yet very low installed solar capacity of less than 0.5 gigawatt (GW) in 2017, went on to become the darling of Europe’s solar scene. By 2023, installed capacity has exceeded 2.5 GW, a five-fold increase within six years, but even more striking is the latest target of 20.4 GW by 2030 in Portugal’s National Energy and Climate Plan, up from the earlier target of 9 GW by 2027. These are large ambitions, and policymakers, practitioners, and scholars alike wonder: will these targets bear out in practice?
Drawing on long-term, multi-sited and multi-scalar ethnographic fieldwork, this book aims to address this concern. There is no comparable existing work that tells this story of Portugal, a case that has global significance as a laggard rather than a frontrunner and that is rapidly in the ascendancy.
This book addresses how a country with Europe’s best solar irradiation potential yet very low installed solar capacity of less than 0.5 gigawatt (GW) in 2017, went on to become the darling of Europe’s solar scene. By 2023, installed capacity has exceeded 2.5 GW, a five-fold increase within six years, but even more striking is the latest target of 20.4 GW by 2030 in Portugal’s National Energy and Climate Plan, up from the earlier target of 9 GW by 2027. These are large ambitions, and policymakers, practitioners, and scholars alike wonder: will these targets bear out in practice?
Drawing on long-term, multi-sited and multi-scalar ethnographic fieldwork, this book aims to address this concern. There is no comparable existing work that tells this story of Portugal, a case that has global significance as a laggard rather than a frontrunner and that is rapidly in the ascendancy.
Siddharth Sareen is a human geographer, development researcher and political ecologist. He is Professor in Energy and Environment at the University of Stavanger, and Professor II at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation at the University of Bergen.
one Introduction
two Methodology
three Solar Portugal 2017
four Solar Portugal 2018–2019
five Solar Portugal 2020–2021
six Solar Portugal 2022
seven Solar Portugal 2023
eight Conclusion
Erscheinungsdatum | 04.07.2024 |
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Zusatzinfo | 1 Tables, black and white; 18 Illustrations, black and white |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 127 x 203 mm |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5292-4210-X / 152924210X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5292-4210-2 / 9781529242102 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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