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What are the regionally specific institutions that matter for renewable energy deployment and how can they be identified? Some insights from Italian regions

De Laurentis, Carla

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Carla De Laurentis



Abstract

While energy transition processes are embedded in locally and regionally specific institutions, infrastructures and natural environments challenges remain in identifying the institutions that matter for renewable energy deployment, how they work and how they influence energy transition at the regional level. The paper discusses the institutional configurations, discernible by looking at the influence that the socio-material forms of energy exert on energy infrastructure, and its governance. It is argued that the socio-material dimensions of renewable energy are useful to emphasise the institutions that matter for renewable energy deployment and can shed light on the capacity of regional governments to steer renewable energy transitions. By adopting a comparative case study approach, the paper stresses the way in which the normative and cultural contexts of the regions under-consideration have influenced and modulated the effects of national regulatory schemes on renewable energy deployment. While similar institutional settings have worked in different ways across the regions investigated, the approach adopted is helpful in emphasising the relational and multi-scalar character of institutions and their effect on the regional capacity, and capability, to act in renewable energy deployment.

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De Laurentis, C. (2021). What are the regionally specific institutions that matter for renewable energy deployment and how can they be identified? Some insights from Italian regions. Local Environment, 26(5), 632-649. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2021.1904859

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 12, 2021
Online Publication Date Mar 25, 2021
Publication Date 2021-03
Deposit Date Jun 13, 2022
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Local Environment
Print ISSN 1354-9839
Electronic ISSN 1469-6711
Publisher Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 26
Issue 5
Pages 632-649
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2021.1904859
Keywords Institutions; renewable energy; regional development; socio-materialities of energy
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9642293
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2021.1904859
Additional Information Supplemental data for this article can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2021.1904859

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