Heat and the City Community: The institutional roots of Danish energy conversion efficiency
From: Matthew Lockwood
To: University of Edinburgh, September 2015
Outline
- The two faces of Danish energy efficiency
- DH shares in residential heating
- Share of CHP in electricity generation
- Conventional story – the 1970s oil crisis as trigger
- Historical institutionalism
- Total heat demand
- The 1970s oil shocks as ‘critical juncture’
- Policy response
- Politics of the 1970s ‘critical juncture’
- Expansion of DH 1981-2013
- Evolution – the return of decentralised CHP, the introduction of renewable fuels and new opportunities for balancing
- Conclusions and implications for UK
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