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Understanding essential energy through functionings: A comparative study across six energy poverty trials in Europe 通过功能了解基本能源：欧洲六项能源贫困试验的比较研究

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2024-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103834

Nicola Willand , Lucie Middlemiss , Milena Büchs , Pepa Ambrosio Albala

Universal access to essential energy is a derived human right, however the term “essential energy” is not well defined and can be subject to interpretation. Diverse understandings of the concept can lead to uncertainties in the identification of energy poor households and misguided interventions. Building on literature on energy poverty, capabilities and health promotion, this article proposes that essential energy should be understood in terms energy functionings, which are the realisations of capabilities.

To clarify the essential energy concept in terms of functionings, this study aimed to reveal how essential energy was perceived and shaped across diverse contexts of six energy poverty trials. The study took place in Jelgava (Latvia), Obuda (Hungary), Edirne (Turkiye), Valencia (Spain), Leeds (England) and Heerlen (The Netherlands) and involved focus groups and urban tours with 29 energy poverty experts in 2023.

Conceptions of essential energy converged on a set of non-compensatory and context-independent contemporary functionings: spatial warmth, coolness, hygiene, good indoor air quality, clean laundry, cooked food, food safety and security, electronic entertainment and others. The fair and equitable distribution of these essential energy outcomes for low carbon living and health depended on the constellation of energy features such as energy carriers, services and appliances. We also extracted a list of conditions that shaped these energy features, influenced capabilities and impacted outcomes, while promoting the achievement of energy functionings and staying within the limits of sufficiency. Energy poverty assessments using this functionings framework should also consider a dwelling's structural integrity and secure supply of energy.

普遍获得基本能源是一项衍生的人权，但 "基本能源 "一词并没有明确的定义，可能会有不同的解释。对这一概念的不同理解会导致能源贫困家庭识别的不确定性和干预措施的误导。为了从功能的角度阐明基本能源的概念，本研究旨在揭示基本能源是如何在六个能源贫困试验的不同背景下被认识和形成的。这项研究分别在耶尔加瓦（拉脱维亚）、奥布达（匈牙利）、埃迪尔内（土耳其）、巴伦西亚（西班牙）、利兹（英国）和海尔伦（荷兰）进行，并在 2023 年与 29 位能源贫困问题专家进行了焦点小组讨论和城市参观。低碳生活和健康所需的这些基本能源成果的公平和公正分配取决于能源载体、服务和电器等能源特征的组合。我们还提取了一系列形成这些能源特征、影响能力和结果的条件，同时促进能源功能的实现并保持在充足的限度内。使用此功能框架进行能源贫困评估时，还应考虑住宅的结构完整性和能源的安全供应。

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The challenge of community acceptance of small nuclear reactors 社区接受小型核反应堆的挑战

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2024-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103831

Seth P. Tuler , Thomas Webler

Nuclear power is being promoted as a safe and reliable energy source that can contribute to the decarbonization goals of nations and states. A great deal of recent attention is on the role of small modular reactors and micro-reactors for providing heat and electricity. To be impactful, many hundreds of these small capacity reactors would have to be deployed rapidly. Consequently, hundreds of communities in a wide variety of settings would need to host reactors. This is a formidable challenge. Multiple criticisms have been leveled against proponents' claims that this challenge will be met, including economic factors. A review of the literature about small modular reactors and micro-reactors found that both advocates and critics largely ignore the challenge of community acceptance. Drawing upon the literature into the siting of other kinds of controversial facilities, this review identified obstacles and opportunities for decision processes that seek community acceptance. It explores the relevance of those insights to the siting of small capacity reactors. While some communities are likely to embrace the opportunity to host reactors, experiences across a range of facility siting efforts reinforces the conclusion that site-specific community opposition is likely to be another major obstacle to large-scale deployment of small capacity nuclear reactors thereby jeopardizing their potential contribution to decarbonization.

核能是一种安全可靠的能源，有助于实现国家和民族的去碳化目标。小型模块化反应堆和微型反应堆在提供热能和电能方面的作用最近备受关注。为了产生影响，必须迅速部署数百个这种小容量反应堆。因此，需要在各种环境中的数百个社区安装反应堆。这是一项艰巨的挑战。对于支持者声称可以应对这一挑战的说法，人们提出了多种批评意见，其中包括经济因素。对有关小型模块化反应堆和微型反应堆的文献进行回顾后发现，支持者和批评者在很大程度上都忽视了社区接受度这一挑战。本综述借鉴了有关其他类型有争议设施选址的文献，指出了寻求社区认可的决策过程所面临的障碍和机遇。它探讨了这些见解与小容量反应堆选址的相关性。虽然一些社区可能会接受接纳反应堆的机会，但一系列设施选址工作的经验加强了这一结论，即具体选址社区的反对意见可能会成为大规模部署小容量核反应堆的另一个主要障碍，从而危及其对去碳化的潜在贡献。

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Trading cozy old homes for chilly new ones: How experiences and beliefs guide housing modernization in Northern Pakistan 用舒适的旧房换取寒冷的新房：经验和信仰如何引导巴基斯坦北部的住房现代化

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2024-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103814

Yumna Imtiaz , Alexandra R. Rempel

In developing regions worldwide, building materials such as concrete, steel, and glass are replacing traditional earth, stone, and plant fibers in housing construction; likewise, new dwelling configurations are abandoning traditional forms. Together, these changes are reducing the thermal shelter provided, exposing occupants with limited energy resources to intense heat and/or cold stress. Revival of traditional methods has been suggested, but residents have rejected this approach as contrary to their desires for durability, privacy, and aesthetics. Instead, they are pursuing other actions to provide thermal survivability within their modern buildings, in roles that have previously been neglected. The purpose of this work is therefore to understand the unexplored, potentially vital human role in adapting to contemporary building methods in developing regions. Focusing on a cold climate, we first investigated twenty-three dwellings representing the 100-year housing transition in Northern Pakistan, providing extensive new field documentation. We then interviewed and observed their owner-builders to understand their thermal experiences, beliefs, and practices. Results showed that occupants actively managed their housing transitions, adopting modern elements incrementally and responding with architectural or behavioral interventions to alleviate their adverse thermal effects. Intriguingly, interventions were both guided by, and limited by, owners' concepts of underlying thermal processes. These concepts originated in sensations and observations that highlighted certain heat loss pathways, such as air leakage, but obscured others, such as conduction. This work therefore reveals, unexpectedly, that expanding owners' understanding of their buildings' thermal behaviors should be central to future efforts to address thermal stress resulting from housing modernization.

在世界各地的发展中地区，混凝土、钢材和玻璃等建筑材料正在取代传统的泥土、石材和植物纤维来建造房屋；同样，新的住宅结构也放弃了传统的形式。这些变化共同减少了所提供的热庇护，使能源资源有限的居住者面临酷热和/或严寒的压力。有人建议恢复传统方法，但居民拒绝接受这种方法，认为这违背了他们对耐用性、私密性和美观的追求。相反，他们正在采取其他行动，在现代建筑中提供热生存能力，发挥以前被忽视的作用。因此，这项工作的目的是了解人类在适应发展中地区现代建筑方法方面所扮演的尚未开发的、潜在的重要角色。我们以寒冷气候为重点，首先调查了巴基斯坦北部代表百年住房转型的 23 处住宅，提供了大量新的实地文献资料。然后，我们采访并观察了这些住宅的业主--建筑商，以了解他们的热能经验、理念和做法。结果表明，居住者积极管理住房过渡，逐步采用现代元素，并通过建筑或行为干预来减轻其不利的热影响。耐人寻味的是，干预措施既受业主对基本热过程概念的指导，也受其限制。这些概念源于感觉和观察，这些感觉和观察突出了某些热损失途径，如漏风，但却掩盖了其他途径，如传导。因此，这项工作出人意料地揭示出，扩大业主对其建筑物热行为的理解，应成为未来解决住房现代化带来的热应力问题的核心。

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Data governance and open science in energy planning: A case study of the Kenyan ecosystem 能源规划中的数据治理和开放科学：肯尼亚生态系统案例研究

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2024-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103821

Agnese Beltramo , Alycia Leonard , Julia Tomei , Will Usher

There is growing recognition of the need for openness in the governance and management of long-term energy systems planning, including improving data accessibility to inform the planning process. Open data principles offer a way to manage and govern this process more collaboratively and transparently, but they are challenging to implement particularly in resource-constrained and decentralised planning contexts like low- and middle-income countries. For this reason, this paper assesses the viability of open data practices for enhancing transparency and collaboration in energy planning, using Kenya as a case study. Through qualitative analysis of policy documents and stakeholder interviews, this study evaluates the alignment and divergence between internationally accepted values and principles of open science and open data and Kenya's energy planning needs. What emerges is a contrasting picture. The results show that, while open approaches to energy data are theoretically promising for addressing current energy data challenges in Kenya, stakeholders show limited agreement or understanding of practical implementation pathways. These findings aim to support Kenyan stakeholders and decision-makers involved in the ongoing long-term planning process under the Integrated National Energy Plan.

越来越多的人认识到，长期能源系统规划的治理和管理需要开放性，包括提高数据的可获取性，为规划过程提供信息。开放数据原则为以更加协作和透明的方式管理和治理这一过程提供了一种方法，但在中低收入国家等资源有限、规划分散的情况下，实施这些原则尤其具有挑战性。为此，本文以肯尼亚为例，评估了开放数据实践在提高能源规划透明度和协作性方面的可行性。通过对政策文件和利益相关者访谈的定性分析，本研究评估了国际公认的开放科学和开放数据的价值观和原则与肯尼亚能源规划需求之间的一致性和分歧。结果发现，两者之间的情况截然不同。结果表明，虽然能源数据开放方法在理论上有望解决肯尼亚当前的能源数据挑战，但利益相关者对实际实施路径的认同或理解有限。这些研究结果旨在为肯尼亚利益相关者和决策者提供支持，使其参与到正在进行的国家综合能源计划长期规划过程中。

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Prefiguring energy futures: Hybrid energy initiatives and just transitions in fossil fuel regions 预设能源未来：化石燃料地区的混合能源倡议和公正过渡

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103830

Megan Egler , Lindsay Barbieri

Energy transition, as both a material process and a process of reimagining energy futures, offers fertile grounds for broad societal transformation. However, the current state of power and politics in the historical fossil fuel regions of North America presents unique challenges. This paper explores initiatives that leverage former fossil fuels sites, infrastructure, and labor for renewable energy projects, and examines their position in prefiguring alternative energy futures in fossil fuel regions. These initiatives, which we introduce as hybrid energy initiatives (HEIs), can alleviate material, political, and cultural barriers to energy transitions by accounting for present contexts in regions of historical fossil fuel extraction, developing partnerships between renewable energy advocates and traditional fossil fuel stakeholders, and building legitimacy through discourses of equity and justice. However, discourses and technologies do not guarantee the operationalization of the just transition narratives HEIs often draw upon. We illustrate this in two case studies of initiatives, one in Appalachia, USA, and the other in Alberta, Canada, that position themselves as innovative endeavors in the utilization of former fossil fuel sites and infrastructures for new solar energy projects. Contributing to just transition scholarship we demonstrate an approach for considering the prefiguring potential of energy innovations and how elements of energy justice can be rendered acceptable within a political climate unfavorable to climate and just transition policies.

能源转型既是一个物质过程，也是一个重新构想能源未来的过程，它为广泛的社会变革提供了肥沃的土壤。然而，北美历史化石燃料地区的权力和政治现状带来了独特的挑战。本文探讨了利用前化石燃料场地、基础设施和劳动力开展可再生能源项目的倡议，并研究了它们在化石燃料地区预设替代能源未来中的地位。我们将这些倡议称为混合能源倡议（HEIs），通过考虑历史上化石燃料开采地区的现状，发展可再生能源倡导者与传统化石燃料利益相关者之间的合作关系，以及通过公平和正义的论述建立合法性，这些倡议可以缓解能源转型的物质、政治和文化障碍。然而，论述和技术并不能保证高等院校经常借鉴的公正转型论述的可操作性。我们通过两个案例研究说明了这一点，一个在美国阿巴拉契亚，另一个在加拿大艾伯塔省，这两个地方都将自己定位为利用前化石燃料场地和基础设施开展新太阳能项目的创新努力。我们展示了一种考虑能源创新预示潜力的方法，以及如何在不利于气候和公正转型政策的政治环境中使能源公正的要素得到接受，从而为公正转型学术研究做出贡献。

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Policy stagnation or reevaluation? Exploring the regulatory dimensions of carbon capture, utilisation and storage in Finland and the Baltic countries 政策停滞还是重新评估？探讨芬兰和波罗的海国家碳捕集、利用和封存的监管问题

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103825

Katariina Buure , Laura Kainiemi , Jarkko Levänen , Julija Gusca

Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) technologies are increasingly viewed as essential tools in the global effort to mitigate climate change by rapidly reducing carbon emissions. Within the European Union (EU) regulatory framework, these technologies are positioned as critical components in the transition to an industrial climate-neutral future, as they hold significant potential to reduce carbon emissions and help meet long-term climate goals. Yet, despite this potential, the large-scale deployment of CCUS technologies continues to face challenges. This study explores the specific regulatory and policy challenges hindering the implementation of CCUS in Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The policy cycle approach used in the analysis highlights the importance of continuous evaluation and adaptation to ensure policies remain effective and responsive to both technological advancements and societal needs. Through interviews with high-level decision-makers and industry representatives and a comparative analysis of national policies and their alignment with EU-level regulations, the research identifies a significant disconnect between EU ambitions and national execution. Scepticism from decision-makers towards CCUS technologies, coupled with a lack of trust in regulatory bodies from the industry, has further intensified these challenges and made it difficult for CCUS technologies to gain momentum. To address these issues, we recommend clearer, more harmonised regulations and increased collaboration between decision-makers, industries and researchers. The successful implementation of CCUS technologies could significantly contribute to achieving shared climate goals.

碳捕集、利用和封存（CCUS）技术越来越被视为全球通过快速减少碳排放来减缓气候变化的重要工具。在欧盟（EU）的监管框架内，这些技术被定位为向未来工业气候中和过渡的关键组成部分，因为它们在减少碳排放和帮助实现长期气候目标方面具有巨大潜力。然而，尽管潜力巨大，CCUS 技术的大规模部署仍然面临挑战。本研究探讨了阻碍 CCUS 在芬兰、爱沙尼亚、拉脱维亚和立陶宛实施的具体监管和政策挑战。分析中采用的政策周期方法强调了持续评估和调整的重要性，以确保政策始终有效，并对技术进步和社会需求做出响应。通过对高层决策者和行业代表的访谈，以及对国家政策及其与欧盟法规一致性的比较分析，研究发现欧盟的雄心壮志与国家执行之间存在严重脱节。决策者对 CCUS 技术持怀疑态度，加上业界对监管机构缺乏信任，进一步加剧了这些挑战，使 CCUS 技术难以获得发展动力。为解决这些问题，我们建议制定更明确、更统一的法规，并加强决策者、行业和研究人员之间的合作。CCUS 技术的成功实施将极大地促进共同气候目标的实现。

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A political economy analysis of the electricity sector in Côte d'Ivoire 科特迪瓦电力部门的政治经济分析

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103833

Wondia Mireille Yeo

The Ivorian electricity sector is undergoing significant changes due to new entrants, increased investments in generation projects, and the development of new policies and initiatives. Using a political economy perspective and a qualitative research method, this paper analyses the dynamics shaping this sector's transformation. Empirically, the study contributes to the understanding of power relations in the energy sector in Côte d'Ivoire. It adds to the growing research on changes in the energy sector in West African countries. Theoretically, the paper contributes to the literature on the political economy of the electricity sector in Sub-Saharan Africa by highlighting neo-colonial relations. The study identifies the actors and institutions involved in the Ivorian electricity sector as well as their interests, and examines the instrumental and structural power of key actors. The findings reveal that, first a three-party institutional structure consisting of the President of the Republic, the Ministry of Energy, and the public agency Ci-Energies all play decisive roles in the decision-making processes at the national level and apply a top-down approach. This institutional trio exerts instrumental power and is able to influence the inclusion and exclusion of stakeholders which has implications for the inclusivity of the sector. Second, there are complex power interrelations among actors, and the sector heavily relies on international finance and has been shaped by vested interests from international actors including French companies. The paper argues that uneven power relations allow the prevalence of foreign interests and impede the development of the domestic electricity industry.

由于新企业的加入、发电项目投资的增加以及新政策和新举措的制定，科特迪瓦电力行业正在经历重大变革。本文采用政治经济学视角和定性研究方法，分析了该行业转型的动力。从经验角度看，本研究有助于理解科特迪瓦能源行业的权力关系。该研究为有关西非国家能源行业变化的日益增多的研究增添了新的内容。从理论上讲，本文通过强调新殖民主义关系，为有关撒哈拉以南非洲电力部门政治经济学的文献做出了贡献。研究确定了参与科特迪瓦电力部门的参与者和机构及其利益，并考察了主要参与者的工具性和结构性权力。研究结果表明，首先，由共和国总统、能源部和公共机构 Ci-Energies 组成的三方体制结构在国家层面的决策过程中发挥着决定性作用，并采用自上而下的方式。这三个机构发挥着工具性力量，能够影响利益相关者的融入和排斥，从而对该部门的包容性产生影响。其次，参与者之间存在复杂的权力关系，该部门严重依赖国际资金，并受到包括法国公司在内的国际参与者既得利益的影响。本文认为，不平衡的权力关系使得外国利益盛行，阻碍了国内电力行业的发展。

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Making space for environmental justice in renewable energy planning 在可再生能源规划中为环境正义留出空间

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103806

Leire Urkidi Azkarraga, Mikel Gurrutxaga

Against the backdrop of the energy transition, the development of renewable energies implies risks and imbalances that could be mitigated by taking proper spatial planning approaches. The Territorial Sectoral Plan for Renewable Energies of the Basque Country (Spain) aims to organize the deployment of large-scale projects for multiple energy sources, on rural, non-developable land and on a regional scale. Plans of this kind are scarce in Europe and almost nonexistent in Spain. In the article, we analyze the drafting process of the Territorial Sectoral Plan using a combination of methods, in order to identify the perceived injustices of the plan and to discuss them within the multi-dimensional environmental justice framework. In this case, the key perceived injustices are linked to: (1) the misrecognition of rural communities and mountain areas as a key axis of inequality—related to disrupted attachment to place; (2) the corporate and mercantilist nature of the current energy system; (3) the conflict between mitigation objectives and adaptation functions/capabilities; and (4) the absence of multi-scalar decision-making processes and the limited scope of participation. Furthermore, this article provides a series of normative proposals regarding spatial planning for renewable energies in similar contexts. The study concludes that the intersection between spatial energy planning and environmental justice could constitute a fertile research field in the quest for fair energy transitions.

在能源转型的背景下，可再生能源的发展意味着风险和不平衡，而采取适当的空间规划方法可以缓解这些风险和不平衡。巴斯克地区（西班牙）的 "可再生能源地区部门计划 "旨在组织在农村、不可开发土地和地区范围内部署多种能源的大型项目。此类计划在欧洲很少，在西班牙几乎不存在。在这篇文章中，我们采用多种方法分析了 "国土部门计划 "的起草过程，以确定该计划中存在的不公正现象，并在多维环境正义框架内对其进行讨论。在这种情况下，主要的不公正现象与以下方面有关：(1) 农村社区和山区被误认为是不平等的关键轴心，这与对地方的依恋遭到破坏有关；(2) 当前能源系统的企业和重商主义性质；(3) 减缓目标与适应功能/能力之间的冲突；(4) 缺乏多尺度决策过程以及参与范围有限。此外，本文还就类似情况下的可再生能源空间规划提出了一系列规范性建议。研究得出结论，空间能源规划与环境正义之间的交叉可以成为寻求公平能源过渡的一个肥沃的研究领域。

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Large inequalities in climate mitigation scenarios are not supported by theories of distributive justice 分配公平理论不支持气候减缓情景中的巨大不平等

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103813

Joel Millward-Hopkins , Yamina Saheb , Jason Hickel

Existing global climate mitigation scenarios perpetuate large inequalities in energy and income between countries and regions for the rest of the century, and modellers have recently begun to assess these dynamics in light of distributive justice theories. However, these theories are intended to describe inequalities within nations and cannot straightforwardly be applied to inequalities between nations or world regions. Indeed, an analysis of key distributive justice theories suggests that, in contexts of international or interregional inequalities, moral justifications for inequality cannot be sustained, while arguments in favour of egalitarianism become stronger.

在本世纪余下的时间里，现有的全球气候减缓方案将使国家和地区之间在能源和收入方面的巨大不平等永久化。然而，这些理论旨在描述国家内部的不平等，不能直接应用于国家或世界地区之间的不平等。事实上，对主要分配正义理论的分析表明，在国际或地区间不平等的情况下，不平等的道德理由是站不住脚的，而支持平等主义的论点则变得更加有力。

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Policy mixes for net-zero energy transitions: Insights from energy sector integration in Germany 能源净零过渡的政策组合：德国能源行业一体化的启示

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2024-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103822

Sarah Olbrich , Dierk Bauknecht , Philipp Späth

Energy sector integration is one key strategy in the German net-zero energy transition to decarbonise the energy-consuming sectors mobility, heating and industry. Energy sector integration describes connecting power, heat, mobility and industrial processes as well as their infrastructure through either the use of renewable power (direct electrification) or the use of low carbon hydrogen and its derivates (indirect electrification).

In this contribution, we evaluate the comprehensiveness of the German policy mix for energy sector integration using the policy intervention points framework. To do so, we mapped the policy mix and discussed it with experts in energy policy and energy sector integration.

We show that next to diffusing low-carbon technologies, taking an overarching system perspective across the sectors and addressing systemic problems in the emerging system are major challenges. Furthermore, the policy mix should be better coordinated as, due to the current sectoral silo thinking, it is often unclear how sectoral and energy carrier-specific policy elements relate to each other. As well, mistrust in the credibility of the policy mix leads to uncertainty, fear of sunk investments and planning insecurity.

Based on the empirical analysis, we propose to add system building as additional policy intervention point. System building aims to take an overarching system perspective on the new and contested system configuration, which allows to coordinate transition processes with regard to a systemic goal like the net-zero goal and to identify and address systemic problems that emerge during the transition.

能源部门一体化是德国能源净零过渡的一项关键战略，旨在实现交通、供热和工业等能源消耗部门的去碳化。能源部门一体化是指通过使用可再生能源（直接电气化）或使用低碳氢气及其衍生物（间接电气化），将电力、供热、交通和工业流程及其基础设施连接起来。在本报告中，我们利用政策干预点框架评估了德国能源部门一体化政策组合的全面性。为此，我们绘制了政策组合图，并与能源政策和能源行业整合方面的专家进行了讨论。我们的研究表明，除了推广低碳技术之外，从总体系统的角度来看待各行业以及解决新兴系统中的系统性问题也是一大挑战。此外，还应更好地协调政策组合，因为由于目前的部门孤岛思维，部门和能源载体特定政策要素之间的关系往往并不明确。此外，对政策组合可信度的不信任也会导致不确定性、对沉没投资的恐惧以及规划的不安全性。系统建设旨在从总体系统的角度来看待新的、有争议的系统配置，从而协调与净零目标等系统目标有关的过渡进程，并识别和解决过渡期间出现的系统问题。

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