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Developing pathways for energy storage in the UK using a coevol / Taylor, Peter G; Bolton, Ronan; Stone, Dave; Upham, Paul

Upham, Paul	Journal Article
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2013.

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A number of recent techno-economic studies have shown that energy storage could offer significant benefits to a low-carbon UK energy system as it faces increased challenges in matching supply and demand. However, the majority of this work has not investigated the real-world issues affecting the widespread deployment of storage. This paper is designed to address this gap by drawing on the systems innovation and socio-technical transitions literature to identify some of the most important contextual factors which are likely to influence storage deployment. Specifically it uses a coevolutionary framework to examine how changes in ecosystems, user practices, business strategies, institutions and technologies are creating a new selection environment and potentially opening up the energy system to new variations of storage for both electricity and heat. The analysis shows how these different dimensions of the energy regime can coevolve in mutually reinforcing ways to create alternative pathways for the energy system which in turn have different flexibility requirements and imply different roles for storage technologies. Using this framework three pathways are developed - user led, decentralised and centralised - which illustrate potential long-term trajectories for energy storage technologies in a low-carbon energy system.

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Energy Storage ; Socio - Technical Transitions ; Low - Carbon Energy System

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Regime destabilisation as the flipside of energy transitions: lessons from the history of the British coal industry (1913-1997) / Turnheim, Bruno; Geels, Frank W

Turnheim, Bruno	Journal Article
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2012.

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This paper investigates a neglected aspect of the transitions literature: the destabilisation of existing regimes and industries. It presents an analytical perspective that integrates four existing views on destabilisation and conceptualizes the process as a multi-dimensional and enacted phenomenon involving technical, economic, political, and cultural processes. This perspective is illustrated with two historical cases of the British coal industry (1913-1967, 1967-1997). These cases are also used to articulate five lessons regarding the overall destabilisation process and five lessons regarding the economic and socio-political environments of industries. The conclusion section translates the historical lessons into insights with relevance for the contemporary challenge of climate change and transitions to low-carbon energy systems.

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Coal ; Industry Destabilisation ; Socio - Technical Transitions

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