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Renewable Energy Transformation or Fossil Fuel Backlash

Vested Interests in the Political Economy

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  • © 2015

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Part of the book series: Energy, Climate and the Environment (ECE)

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Renewable energy is rising within an energy system dominated by powerful vested energy interests in fossil fuels, nuclear and electric utilities. Analyzing renewables in six very different countries, the author argues that it is the extent to which states have controlled these vested interests that determines the success or failure of renewables.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

    Espen Moe

About the author

Espen Moe is Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. He received his doctorate in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He is the author of Governance, Growth and Global Leadership (2007) and editor of The Political Economy of Renewable Energy and Energy Security (with P. Midford, 2014).

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