Governing Green Energy Trade: Challenges and Opportunities

Abstract

The current energy crisis has dramatically increased pressures to accelerate the transition of energy systems away from fossil fuels towards renewable sources. The transition has high salience for the fight against climate change and requires the decarbonization of sec-tors with considerable fossil fuel consumption. Moreover, for many countries, the Russian war against Ukraine has severely limited the option of using natural gas as a bridging technology to compensate for the volatility of renewables in the transition process. In this urgent situation, green energy trade, i.e. the storage, transport, and on-demand release of energy produced from renewable sources, is coming into focus. What are the opportu-nities and challenges in developing and governing green energy trade? How can emerging technologies, policies, and governance approaches address the trilemma of cost effective-ness, security, and sustainability? This panel brings together scholars who work on the societal, economic, and political features of green energy trade and its underlying tech-nologies such as hydrogen or reactive metals. It encourages research on the complex in-terdependencies arising in the context of green energy trade from different countries and world regions as well as from different disciplinary and methodological backgrounds. We welcome original research articles and reviews in areas such as (but not limited to): ▪️ Politics, policies, and governance of green energy trade and sustainable energy transitions ▪️ Cost effectiveness, security, and sustainability in green energy trade ▪️ Geopolitics, external dimensions, and political economy of green energy trade ▪️ Societal discourses, public opinion and acceptance of green energy trade ▪️ Policies and governance of hydrogen production and trade across global, regional, na-tional, and local levels.

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