| Title |
The challenges of greening energy: policy/industry dissonance at the Mongstad refinery, Norway |
| ID_Doc |
32224 |
| Authors |
Haarstad, H; Rusten, G |
| Title |
The challenges of greening energy: policy/industry dissonance at the Mongstad refinery, Norway |
| Year |
2016 |
| Published |
Environment And Planning C-Government And Policy, 34, 2 |
| DOI |
10.1177/0263774X15614660 |
| Abstract |
The interaction between policy making and industry is a key to understanding he conditions for 'reening' contemporary energy systems. This article uses efforts toward greening the Mongstad oil refinery in Norway as a case to analyse the challenges involved in politically stimulated shifts towards increased sustainability in the energy sector. A technology test centre and a full-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at Mongstad were the centrepiece of the Stoltenberg government's (2005-2013) climate strategy. However, the project suffered delays and cost overruns until the full-scale carbon capture and storage project was eventually stopped. It is argued that interactions between the policy-making and industrial innovation arenas involved in this case are challenging because they operate according to different internal logics. We conceptualize this divergence as 'policy/industry dissonance' and suggest that this concept is a useful complement to literatures on regional innovation systems (RIS) and the multilevel perspective on sustainability transitions (MLP). |
| Author Keywords |
energy; policy; innovation; carbon capture and storage; dissonance |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) |
| EID |
WOS:000371303300008 |
| WoS Category |
Environmental Studies; Public Administration |
| Research Area |
Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Public Administration |
| PDF |
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0263774X15614660
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