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2018 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

6. The International Reverberations of Germany’s Energiewende; Geoeconomics in the EU’s Geo-Energy Space

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Abstract

Germany’s Energiewende is an important example of a national policy to increase the share of renewables. Given the close proximity of European countries, this policy does not remain without implications on the European level. The European Union has been set up to balance political frictions where they arise. However, energy is an area where the leeway of the EU Member States to pursue national agendas is particularly wide. Despite the involvement of the European Union, the Energiewende, therefore, affects the bilateral relations between Germany and the other EU Member States. To capture these and similar effects, this chapter analyses the technical and economic reverberations of Germany’s Energiewende in the EU’s geo-energy space, that is the entanglement of energy systems across Europe; further, it discusses the geoeconomic implications for European energy politics.

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Vorheriges Kapitel The Geopolitical Implications of a Clean Energy Future from the Perspective of the United States
Nächstes Kapitel China and Renewables: The Priority of Economics over Geopolitics
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1
For the meaning of the word Energiewende, see also Sect. 6.4.1.
 
2
A great deal of uncertainty actually remains about the prospects of renewables. It has to be noted that despite high growth rates in the renewable segment in Germany, renewables still account only for a relatively small fraction of the German energy mix. This is particularly true if their share in primary energy consumption (about 12% in 2016) instead of gross power generation (about 19% in 2016) is considered (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Energiebilanzen 2017, 8, 12). Given that the promotion of renewables yields high growth rates during their early phases, but soon reaches a point where adding new capacity encounters technological and economic barriers, this situation probably won’t see a fundamental change in the near future.
 
3
Article 194, 2 of the Lisbon Treaty (TFEU) defines, for example, relatively narrow barriers for stronger centralization of energy policy on the EU level.
 
4
Here, the term ‘systems’ encompasses a wider number of concepts such as organizations, institutions, and interactions (Joerges 1988, 19).
 
5
In contrast to Manñé-Estrada’s concept of a pan-European space, this chapter focusses on the territory of the European Union, understood as the sum of the energy systems on the territory of EU Member States without their overseas territories.
 
6
From the Latin ‘revolutio’, a ‘turn around’.
 
7
From the German ‘Wende’, a ‘turn’.
 
8
The Polish weekly news magazine ‘Najwyższy Czas!’ (‘High Times!’) Nr. 36-37, 2017, for example, headed ‘the Nazi roots of renewable energy’. According to the author, it is “impossible not to get the impression that the ideology of ecology born in Nazi Germany triumphs again”—to the detriment of the Polish coal industry.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
The International Reverberations of Germany’s Energiewende; Geoeconomics in the EU’s Geo-Energy Space
verfasst von
Thomas Sattich
Copyright-Jahr
2018
Buch
The Geopolitics of Renewables

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-67854-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-67855-9

Copyright-Jahr: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67855-9_6