Proceedings 2007

Transforming the Energy System: The Role of Institutions, Interests & Ideas

Diffusion of Biodiesel and Natural Gas in Brazil: An Analysis from the Standpoint of Economy of Technology and Sociology of Technology
Adalberto Mantovani Martiniano de Azevedo, Newton Müller Pereira

The technological entrenchment could be dangerous. A case of a conflictive sitting plant in the Basque Country.
Gloria Baigorrotegui B.

Fuelling Chained Expectations in Hydrogen Communities
Sjoerd Bakker, Harro van Lente

Facing the dynamics of institutional change – An analysis of socio-technical transformations of municipal utilities
Sven Barnekow

Energy-related policy tensions, prescribed sustainability and the ‘everyday politics’ of transition in the Paris city-region
Olivier Coutard, Jonathan Rutherford

The Utilities in Transition: Gazing through the IT window
Tracey Crosbie

Empirical Study of the Formation Processes of Energy Scenarios
Christian Dieckhoff

Locating Community in Community Energy Planning
Nichole Dusyk

Sustainability, foresight and contested futures: exploring visions and pathways in the transition to a hydrogen economy
Malcolm Eames, William McDowall

Exploring Future Transition Pathways. The Socio-Technical Scenario approach
Boelie Elzen, Peter Hofman

Overcoming lock-in for the transition to distributed energy production systems: the case of micro-cogeneration at households
Albert Faber, Koen Frenken, Marco Valente, Peter Janssen

The Transition to Bio Fuels in Public Transportation – Interests, Actors and Co-operation in a Swedish Municipal Context
Magdalena Fallde

Creating Societal Acceptance by Negotiating Ideas
C.F.J. (Ynke) Feenstra

A Critique of Geels’ Multi-level Perspective of Technological Transition
Audley Genus, Anne-Marie Coles

New power generation plants and investors’ location choices: some evidence from the Italian case
Angelamaria Groppi

Sustainable Development as a challenge for transforming the energy system
Armin Grunwald, Jürgen Kopfmüller

Beyond the Rhetoric: Distributed Technologies and Political Engagement
Steven M. Hoffman, Angela High-Pippert

The German Energy Sector under Liberalization Pressure –Sector Structure, Chances for the Diffusion of Energy Efficiency Technologies and Services, and Sector Persistency
Dorothea Jansen

Infrastructure and the Energy System: Historical Perspectives on the Tide-Water Pipeline
Christopher Jones

The Construction of the Energy System. The Political Debate in Sweden
Ann-Sofie Kall

Investigating applicability of innovation system concept[s] in transforming the energy system
Shahzad A. Khan, Jaco Quist

Managing Uncertainty: Patterns of Decision Making in the Field of Power Generation and of Power Engineering
Hermann Kocyba

Competing Values, Institutionalizing Policies: U.S. Energy Policy since World War II
Frank N. Laird

An analysis of the influence of social preferences on the multicriteria evaluation of energy scenarios
Ines Omann, Katharina Kowalski, Lisa Bohunovsky, Reinhard Madlener, Sigrid Stagl

Researching Innovation and Transformation Dynamics in the Electricity System: The Example of Micropower in Germany
Barbara Praetorius

Unintended effects of the energy markets liberalisation: a neoinstitutional approach of the liberalisation process
Thomas Reverdy

Participatory technology development and assessment: In search of a sustainable use of fuel cell technology at the municipal level
Anna Schreuer, Michael Ornetzeder, Harald Rohracher

The transitions discourse in Dutch energy policy: reinvigorating ecological modernisation?
Adrian Smith, Florian Kern

‘Energy Regions’ in Austria and the normative dimension of transition dynamics
Philipp Späth

The Formation of a Biofuels Innovation System: Lessons from The Netherlands
Roald Suurs, Marko Hekkert

Facing the Problem of Climate Change – Technology Shaping New Energy Policy Discourse
Tuula Teräväinen

Actor oriented analysis of innovation systems: Exploring micro-meso level linkages in the case of stationary fuel cells
Jochen Markard, Bernhard Truffer

Design and dynamics in the governance of energy systems: the development of policy instruments
Jan-Peter Voß

Policymaking for the niche: successes and failures in recent UK marine energy policy
Mark Winskel

IGC Cologne 2012 - DOWN TO EARTH

Session: Transition of energy systems and green industry development
Chairs: Britta Klagge & Harald Rohracher

More information: http://igc2012.org