The slow search for solutions: lessons from historical energy transitions by sector and service

By R. Fouquet. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Regime destabilisation as the flipside of energy transitions: Lessons from the history of the British coal industry (1913–1997) (2012, background): “This paper contributes to the debate on socio-technical transitions to sustainability (Geels, 2002; Smith et al., 2005; Geels and Schot, 2007; Fouquet, 2010).”
Future capacity growth of energy technologies: are scenarios consistent with historical evidence? (2013, background): “Historically, growth in energy conversion capacity has been driven by energy service demands met by technologies with ever-improving market performance and ever-falling relative costs (Fouquet 2010).”
Trasformismo or transformation? The global political economy of energy transitions (2018, background): “…to recall that previous dramatic re-organizations of production and technology in the energy sector aimed at securing a new round of accumulation have explicitly sought to increase levels of consumption by making energy easier to access and distribute, and cheaper to consume (Fouquet, 2010).”
A low carbon industrial revolution? Insights and challenges from past technological and economic transformations (2012, background): “Third, the time scale for achieving a low carbon transition of the order needed to meet challenging carbon emission reduction targets by 2050 would be significantly shorter than previous comparable industrial transformations (Fouquet, 2010; Smil, 2010).”
Applying institutional theory to the low-carbon energy transition (2016, positive): “As a consequence some socio-technical transitions can take as long as 100 years, though 50 years may be a more reasonable estimate for the current energy transition given the nature of modern communication and political collaboration [30-33].”
Historical energy price shocks and their changing effects on the economy (2017, background): “For instance, many have focussed on energy transitions and the diffusion of technologies (Ray, 1983, Grübler et al., 1999; Gales et al., 2007, Batoletto and Rubio, 2008, Fouquet, 2008, Fouquet, 2010, Rubio and Folchi, 2012, Kander et al., 2013, Grubler and Wilson, 2014, Fouquet, 2016).”
The coming sustainable energy transition: History, strategies, and outlook (2011, background): “Considered in this light, a major global energy transition in less than three decades appears daunting, if not impossible (Bashmakov, 2007; Fouquet, 2010; Smil, 2010).”
Up-scaling, formative phases, and learning in the historical diffusion of energy technologies (2012, background): “End-users in niche markets are generally less sensitive to the effective price of the energy service provided or have a higher willingness to pay for its performance advantages (Fouquet, 2010).”
Long-Run Demand for Energy Services: Income and Price Elasticities over Two Hundred Years (2014, methodology): “from the 1840s to the 1920s, and lighting during the nineteenth century, with Fouquet (2012a) and”
A Comparison of Energy Transition Governance in Germany, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom (2014, background): “), and this inevitably provokes resistance from groups that fear that their interests will be harmed;  Due to the inherent complexity of contemporary industrial societies and the rigidity of the systems in place, transitions are long-term processes [16], as witnessed also by historical evidence on ”
Trends in income and price elasticities of transport demand (1850–2010) (2012, background): “…to point-out that, within this framework, energy and related technological transitions have two ways to influence aggregate transport demand (Fouquet, 2010): first, by reducing the costs or prices of transport services, which did occur in past transitions, and can be represented by a slide…”
Fossil fuel depletion and socio-economic scenarios: An integrated approach (2014, background): “Moreover, the study of previous technological transitions shows that they are slow, in the order of decades (Fouquet, 2010).”
Adaptation, culture, and the energy transition in American coal country (2018, background): “While historic energy transitions have often taken up to a century to unfold [2,3], the current U.”