The Geopolitics of Renewables

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Scholten, Daniel (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Energy, 61
• Subjects: Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Energy security.; International relations.; Natural resources.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Energy Security.; International Relations.; Natural Resource and Energy Economics.

Renewable energy represents a game changer for interstate energy relations. The abundant and intermittent nature of sources, possibilities for decentral generation and use of rare earth materials, and generally electric nature of distribution make renewable energy systems very different from those o...

Table of Contents:

• The Geopolitics of renewables - an introduction and a framework
• renewable energy game and its potential impact upon global power relations
• Frontrunners and laggers: great power rivalry, receptiveness to renewables, and industrial leadership
• Battling for a shrinking market: OPEC, the renewables revolution, and the risk of stranded assets
• US' energy foreign policy and the energy transition
• Germany's Energiewende in its European context - impact on energy flows, generation capacity allocation and Europe's industrial fabric
• China's energy foreign policy and the energy transition.