Emerging Issues in Energy Studies: Remaking of Societies, Industries and the World Order?

Abstract

Energy transitions are not merely evolutionary processes, continuing longer trends They are processes of deep, structural change which occur thanks to innovation, breakthrough technologies and path creation. As such, they bring about impacts and hard to foresee consequences on different levels: societal, political, and economic. Papers in this panel map some of the challenges and emerging issues resulting from these transitions. These include rethinking political relations and the role of citizens in the energy system, as well as the relationship between different sectors of the economy. Transitions on such a scale require a more holistic and systemic thinking, which explores the mutual influence of different sectors and systems. However, the impact of energy transitions will also be visible on the international level. In a liberal world order established in the aftermath of World War II, interdependence was closely linked to the global flows of energy resources, most importantly to the oil market. However, the geopolitical reshuffling resulting from increased renewable energy deployment, as well as domestic pressures for more energy nationalism, independence and dominance, will both challenge that order in different ways.

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