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Transition to a resource efficient and climate neutral electricity system (EL-TRAN)

Tampere University of Applied Sciences
1.5.2015–31.10.2021

The main objective of the project is to develop a roadmap for Finland’s transition to a more resource-efficient and climate-neutral electricity system.

Goal

The consortium will help to resolve policy problems involved in the transition to a resource-efficient, climate-neutral electricity system. The initial phase of such a transition is currently underway in Finland. We welcome this initial vision. However, we suggest that Finland lacks a full comprehension of what resource efficiency entails in the context of this transition, what complex policy problems such a society-wide energy transition will involve and generate, and how to respond to them. To overcome the problems, we will examine energy policy actors, their interests and cognitive frames, trends and structures influencing Finland's electricity system, different renewable energy solutions and prospects of optimising the electricity system to realise the actors' interests. We will outline requirements for Finnish energy policy actors to implement the transition and a roadmap for the public sector to support the process.
Electrification: Accelerating the Energy Transition (edited by Pami Aalto; Elsevier / Academic Press) is available here https://www.elsevier.com/books/electrification/aalto/978-0-12-822143-3.

Funding source

Suomen Akatemia

Contact persons

Pirkko Harsia
pirkko.harsia [at] tuni.fi