Table 2 Key features that influenced RE deployment in the regions investigated
From: Policy-relevant insights for regional renewable energy deployment
Socio-material dimensions of RE | Institutions | Governance and policy-making | Infrastructure issues |
|---|---|---|---|
Renewable energy sources as potentially deployable sources of energy that interact with current land-based resource use | Spatial planning and land-use Facilitation of consenting processes Apulia: XXX Wales Scotland Tuscany and Sardinia: X Land ownership and availability (e.g. ‘land reservoir’) Apulia and Scotland: XXX Wales Tuscany and Sardinia: X | Regional agency and spatial planning Distribution of power in planning Scotland: XXX Apulia, Tuscany and Sardinia: XX Wales (up to 2018?): X Facilitating coordination at lower level Scotland and Tuscany XXX Wales, Apulia and Sardinia: X | Transmission and Distribution infrastructure renewal Current infrastructure endowments Tuscany and Scotland: XX Wales, Apulia and Sardinia: X |
The nature and content of discourses, narratives and visions for renewable energy deployment | Shared visions and binding expectations Visions for RE Apulia, Scotland XXX Wales: XX Tuscany and Sardinia: X RE vis-Ã -vis alternative sources Apulia, Scotland: XXX Tuscany: XX Wales and Sardinia: X | Targets/aspiration settings and legitimisation Targets and resource availability as drivers for RE Apulia and Scotland: XXX Wales: XX Tuscany and Sardinia: X Political will for RE expansion and elite consensus Apulia and Scotland: XXX Wales Tuscany and Sardinia: X | Energy security and access How visions include grid capacity and renewal (limit/opportunities) Tuscany XXX Apulia, Scotland XX Wales and Sardinia: X |
The nature, extent, management, and regulation of built infrastructure requirements for RE delivery and the power to shape such infrastructure | Regulations and standards Regulatory power over infrastructure Apulia, Scotland Wales, Tuscany and Sardinia: X | Regional agency and economic development Political will for RE expansion and elite consensus Apulia and Scotland: XXX Wales Tuscany and Sardinia: X Sites for experimentation Apulia and Sardinia: XXX Scotland XX Wales: X | Local infrastructure development Participation and involvement in infrastructure renewal Apulia and Scotland: XXX Tuscany: XX Wales and Sardinia: X |