Power Through Pressure
How Interconnection Became Part of the EU's Overarching Climate and Energy Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10069425 |
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| Authors | Inga Margrete Ydersbond (0000-0002-9246-5133, Department of Economics The Institute of Transport Economics Oslo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 624-644 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-07 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9886 • E-ISSN: 1468-5965 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jcms.13642 |
| OpenAlex | W4400427210 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
Interconnection is important to attain several important EU climate and energy targets. Drawing on data from 56 stakeholder interviews, stakeholder event participation and document studies, this study enquires as to why electricity interconnection became a part of the EU's overarching climate and energy policy in 2014. The theoretical approaches liberal intergovernmentalism (LI) and the advocacy coalition framework (ACF) are tested complementarily. LI received support: member states, particularly Portugal and Spain, were essential for the outcome. These successfully played the veto card in the high‐level negotiations for the 2030 Climate and Energy Policy Framework, leading to the first inclusion of concrete interconnection targets in it and interconnection becoming a European Commission priority. ACF received partial support: a ‘green’ long‐term, multi‐level advocacy coalition consisting of the renewables industry, environmental organisations and others promoted a binding target for electricity interconnection. This ‘green’ advocacy coalition was instrumental in aiding Portugal and Spain
Business · Climate change · Climate policy · Economics · Energy (signal processing · Environmental economics · Interconnection · Physics · Political science · Power (physics · Telecommunications · Thermodynamics · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Computer Science · European Union Policy and Governance · Global Energy Security and Policy
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Process Tracing
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Power through Collaboration
Elite Ethnographies
An advocacy coalition framework of policy change and the role of policy-oriented learning therein
The Governance of Competition
Pushing administrative EU integration
The advocacy coalition framework
Preferences and Power in the European Community
The Third Internal Energy Market Package
Policy Learning in Embedded Negotiations
Integrating Institutions
Reflections on Ethnographic Work in Political Science
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