Local Energy Governance: A Case of Residential Photovoltaic Systems in Tainan
Date Issued
2016
Date
2016
Author(s)
Tu, Jing-Yun
Abstract
By using renewable energy to reduce fossil energy usage and dependence, can not only mitigate climate warming, but also enhance energy security. In the past, countries are considered to be key stakeholders in promoting renewable energy, but the role of local government in promoting of renewable energy policy is getting more important. Since the Renewable Energy Development Act was approved in 2009, Tainan City government have actively started to promote the installation of photovoltaic systems on residential roofs and in communities. To promote the installation amount of residential and community PV systems, the local government takes different measures like the dissemination of information, provision of equipment grants and to simplify administrative procedures, hope to promote solar photovoltaic systems installed set amount. But after nearly five years of development, the amount of solar photovoltaic system in the city is still a minority, extensive diffusion effect has not yet formed. Taking the “Tainan Residential and Community Solar Program” as the case study, the thesis proposes “Social awareness and acceptance”, “financial”, “the capacity of local energy governance”, and “the energy governance institutional structure” to analyze the local energy governance in Tainan City. Based on the analysis, the thesis’s findings are as follows: first, the local government starts to promote renewable energy policy based on multiple motives, including climate change, urban development; secondly, the promotion policues that local government adopted are confined within the competence of local government; third, due to the current financing system is not friendly for small communities and residential photovoltaic solar systmes, affect citizen’s installation willings; fourth, in the respect of the institutional framework that affecting local governemnt’s energy management, the central government still takes top-down governance model, restricts local governance space on renewable energy governance; and finally, there is still a lack of civil society participation of the local renewable energy policies. As a result, the thesis suggests that the central government should open up centralized energy policy and energy market structure, to strengthening the capacity of local governance in the future. Local government should improve internal renewable energy affairs integration, as same time introducing the capacity of civil society to assist local governments to promote renewable energy governance.
Subjects
Solar Community
Local Energy Governance
Tainan
Renewable Energy
PV
Type
thesis
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