Local Energy Governance

Magali Dreyfus is a Researcher at CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research). She is based at CERAPS (Center for European Research on Administration, Politics and Society) – Lille University in France. Formerly, she was a Visiting Fellow at GRIPS (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies) and a Research Fellow at United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), in Tokyo, Japan. Aki Suwa is a Professor at the Faculty of Contemporary Society, Kyoto Women’s University (KWU), and an Instructor at the College of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University. Her main responsibility at these institutions is to conduct research on environment and sustainable policy and approach, based on community and regional analysis in Japan and in Asia. Prior to her appointment she was a Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS). Her research focuses on how environmental understanding facilitate policy formulation, and how this subsequently influences the degree of the policy implementation on ground. Prior to working in UNU-IAS, she completed a doctorate from the University College London, the University of London. She also holds a MSc degree in the Environmental Technology and Policy from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine.

Table of contents

Introduction

Magali Dreyfus and Aki Suwa

PART 1: NATIONAL FRAMEWORK OF ENERGY GOVERNANCE

Chapter 1 Searching for alternatives to fossil and fission based energy sources in France

Guillaume Dezobry and Magali Dreyfus

Chapter 2 Energy transition in Japan: The political landscape and civil society’s contribution

Masayoshi Iyoda

PART 2: LOCAL GOVERNMENT POWERS IN THE ENERGY SECTOR
Chapter 3 Local authorities and energy in France. Increasing duties, limited means of action

François-Mathieu Poupeau

Chapter 4 Local energy governance: The Japanese context, development and typology

Aki Suwa

Chapter 5 Barriers to renewable energy. A case analysis of the Garorim Bay tidal plant project in South Korea

Bomi Kim and Youhyun Lee

Part 3: LOCAL PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF RENEWABLE ENERGY AT THE LOCAL LEVEL: CITIZENS, COMMUNITIES AND COMPANIES

Chapter 6 Local public companies, local authority shareholders and electricity: rarely one, never two, always three

Marie-Anne Vanneaux

Chapter 7 Analysis of the value added to local economies by municipal power suppliers in Japan

Kenji Inagaki and Takuo Nakayama

PART 4: 100% RENEWABLE ENERGY TERRITORIES WITH 100% RENEWABLE ENERGY
Chapter 8 The voluntary initiatives, "positive energy territory" and "positive energy territory for green growth", first steps towards a decentralization of the French energy system?

Blanche Lormeteau

Chapter 9 The feasibility of a 100% renewable energy scenario at the village level in Japan from an economic standpoint

Takuo Nakayama

Chapter 10 Actors, motives and social implications of 100% renewable energy territories in Austria and Germany

Laure Dobigny

PART 5: TECHNOLOGICAL ISSUES IN ENERGY TRANSITION: MARKET, GRIDS AND SMART CITIES

Chapter 11 Digital and energy transition in French cities: limits and asymptote effects

Raphaël Languillon-Aussel

Chapter 12 Analysis of supply-demand balances in the western Japan grids in 2030: Integrating large-scale photovoltaic and wind energies: Challenges in cross-regional interconnections

Asami Takehama and Manabu Utagawa

Chapter 13 A glimpse into smart cities: opportunities for the development of energy cooperatives for citizens and businesses in Mexico

Luis Román Arciniega Gil

Conclusion and avenues for further research

Magali Dreyfus and Aki Suwa