The role of renewable energy policies for carbon neutrality in Helsinki Metropolitan area
By Karna Dahal, S. Juhola, J. Niemelä. Sustainable cities and society, 2018
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Abstract Renewable energy policies are necessary for achieving carbon neutrality which is the main goal for climate change mitigation. The cities in the Helsinki Metropolitan area have committed themselves to significantly reducing carbon emissions through various climate measures including some measures for renewable energy utilization. We use multilevel perspective (MLP) and renewable energy frameworks to examine the role of renewable energy policies to carbon neutrality in the Helsinki Metropolitan area and base our analysis on various policy documents and semi-structured interviews. Our findings show that current renewable energy policies in the Helsinki Metropolitan area are weak and many challenges exist. Nevertheless, many options are available for improving existing policies. The cities have many opportunities to adopt various energy policy measures, including small-scale renewable energy production in building premises, renewable energy integration to district heating, demand-side solutions for energy utilization, and increasing budgets and subsidies to renewable energy production and enhancement of the social acceptance of renewable energy. Such additional policies are needed to reach carbon neutrality in the Helsinki Metropolitan area.
Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science
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- 100% clean and renewable Wind, Water, and Sunlight (WWS) all-sector energy roadmaps for 53 towns and cities in North America (2018, background): “Several previous studies have analyzed or reviewed some of the components necessary to transition cities or islands to clean, renewable energy (e.g., Agar and Renner, 2016; Calvillo et al., 2016; Park and Kwon, 2016; Bibri and Krogstie, 2017; Noorollahi et al., 2017; Newman, 2017; Dahal et al., 2018”