Towards improved policy processes for promoting innovation in renewable electricity technologies in the UK

Foxon, T. J. and Pearson, Peter J. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2447-406X 2007. Towards improved policy processes for promoting innovation in renewable electricity technologies in the UK. Energy Policy 35 (3) , pp. 1539-1550. 10.1016/j.enpol.2006.04.009

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Abstract

This paper analyses recent, current and potential future relations between policy processes and substantive outcomes in UK low carbon innovation policy, focussing on policies relating to renewable electricity generation technologies. It examines the development of policy processes relating to the adoption and implementation of the Renewables Obligation and how these may affect the current and likely future success of the Obligation in promoting low carbon innovation. It examines the new policy and institutional processes put in place in the 2003 Energy White Paper and argues that these are unlikely to provide the strategic long-term framework needed to realise the ambitious goals for UK energy policy set out in the White Paper. Finally, it outlines some suggestions for further development of policy processes to facilitate improved delivery of these goals, based on guiding principles for sustainable innovation policy processes, developed by the authors and their colleagues.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Architecture
Subjects:	T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Low carbon innovation policy; Renewables Obligation; Sustainable innovation policy processes
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0301-4215
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2022 08:06
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/27210

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