The political economy of energy transitions in Mozambique and South Africa: The role of the Rising Powers
By M. Power, P. Newell, Lucy Baker, H. Bulkeley, Joshua Kirshner, Adrian Smith. 2016
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In a world in which rising powers are reconfiguring global development trajectories with significant implications for their sustainability, it becomes increasingly important to understand whether and how low carbon energy transitions might be enabled or frustrated by this new global geography of power. Towards this end, this paper makes the case for bringing together insights from three broad sets of literature on: (1) socio-technical transitions; (2) the rising powers as (re)emerging development donors and; (3) energy geographies. In building bridges between these three bodies of scholarship we seek to develop an alternative analytical framework that attends more effectively to the global and domestic political economy of transitions and whose value is illustrated empirically in relation to the growing involvement of Brazil, India and China in the energy systems of Mozambique and South Africa. We argue that this alternative framework provides a better understanding of how the rising powers are influencing the changing relationships between low carbon and fossil-fuel based energy pathways and of the multiple roles they are playing in the development and transformation of energy systems, through the development of ‘niches’ where innovation can emerge, or in reinforcing or challenging existing ‘regimes’ or dominant ways of providing energy services.
Subfields: Development, Global and Planetary Change, Pollution
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- New energy spaces: Towards a geographical political economy of energy transition (2020, background): “…(such as those informed by Geels’ (2005) multi-level perspective (MLP)) by paying more attention to its socially contested and power-laden character (Baker et al., 2014; Geels, 2014; Lawhon and Murphy, 2012; Newell and Mulvaney, 2013; Stirling 2014; Scoones et al. 2015; Power et al., 2016).”
- The political economy of technological capabilities and global production networks in South Africa’s wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) industries (2017, unknown): “Chinese solar PV manufacturers supplying to projects under RE IPPPP include Suntech, 7 Yingli Solar, Trina Solar, Jinko solar, Build Your Own Dreams and Renesola (Power et al., 2016).”