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dc.contributor.authorSzulecki, Kacper
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-09T09:16:49Z
dc.date.available2017-05-09T09:16:49Z
dc.date.issued2017nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn0504-452Xnb_NO
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2441994nb_NO
dc.description.abstractPoland’s energy mix is dominated by indigenous coal, and since the country joined the European Union in 2004 it has been clear that it will do much to safeguard its domestic coal sector and resist pressures for ambitious harmonized decarbonization efforts. At the same time, Poland is meeting its renewable energy targets and its onshore wind capacity is growing at a significant pace. In 2015 and 2016, a new renewable energy policy mix has been put in place, relying on tenders for renewable energy volume in large scale RES and a micro-installations support scheme. In parallel, a capacity mechanism is still on the table, though its details are only being worked out. What explains this particular choice of instruments? In this article I focus on four explanatory factors: the influence of the European environment; domestic political and organizational fields and the material and structural constraints of the energy system and resource endowment. I provide a historical overview of renewable energy policy in Poland since the early 1990s, showing how policy evolved, new actors and coalitions emerged, and how the influence of the EU changed overtime. The preliminary findings suggest that the European environment has been crucial in pushing for stronger RES support policies, while the inherently instable domestic political field explains the soap opera of renewable energy policy legislation: drafts, new plans, amendments and legal instability. On the other hand, the choice of particular instruments, within the confines of options acceptable by the EU, is best explained by the stable and segmented organizational field, dominated by a professional logic of the centralized, engineer-lead coal sector, which in turn is linked to the importance of the country’s resource endowment. In these conditions, the current renewable energy policy mix seems optimal for the actors dominating the organizational field, and a deep paradigm shift and overturning the political economy of the energy sector would be needed to change that.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherCICERO Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslonb_NO
dc.relation.ispartofCICERO Working Papernb_NO
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCICERO Working paper;2017:01nb_NO
dc.subjectPolandnb_NO
dc.subjectrenewable energy policynb_NO
dc.subjectEuropenizationnb_NO
dc.subjectCarbon lock-innb_NO
dc.subjectUtilitiesnb_NO
dc.subjectClimate policynb_NO
dc.subjectHarmonizationnb_NO
dc.titlePoland’s renewable energy policy mix: European influence and domestic soap operanb_NO
dc.typeWorking papernb_NO
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Social science: 200nb_NO
dc.identifier.cristin1469122


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