Examining energy transitions: A dozen insights based on performance

By V. Smil. 2016

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Contestation, contingency, and justice in the Nordic low-carbon energy transition (2017, background): “…include the temporal dynamics or speed at which a transition can take place (Sovacool, 2016) as well as historical trends (Grubler et al., 2016; Smil, 2016; Fouquet, 2016a, 2016b), politics and governance (Kern and Rogge, 2016), and even cost and sectoral dimensions (Sovacool and Geels, 2016).”
Historical energy transitions: Speed, prices and system transformation ☆ (2016, background): “As a result, there has been a tendency towards very slow full or aggregated energy transitions (for a more detailed discussion of the complexities of transforming energy systems, see Grübler et al 2016, Smil 2016).”
Ten essentials for action-oriented and second order energy transitions, transformations and climate change research (2018, background): “Thus, while there is extensive debate about whether transformative change can be achieved sufficiently quickly to mitigate and adapt to climate change [19,20], the challenge of finding ways to create the necessary shifts in the systems, structures, assumptions and worldviews underpinning climate cha”