A local perspective on renewable energy development in the Russian Arctic
Many Arctic communities are exposed to energy security risks. Remote settlements rely largely on diesel for energy production, which results in higher consumer prices, negative impacts on the environment and public health. In the past few years, pilot projects for switching remote villages from dies...
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ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/340873 2024-01-07T09:40:28+01:00 A local perspective on renewable energy development in the Russian Arctic Gritsenko, Daria Salonen, Hilma Aleksanteri Institute - Finnish Centre for Russian and East European Studies Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS) 2022-02-23T17:27:04Z 13 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10138/340873 eng eng UNIV CALIFORNIA PRESS 10.1525/elementa.441 This research has been supported by the Academy of Finland grants # 285959 and # 309723, Fulbright Finland – Fulbright Arctic Initiative Programme 2018–19. Gritsenko , D & Salonen , H 2021 , ' A local perspective on renewable energy development in the Russian Arctic ' , Elementa , vol. 8 , no. 1 , 45 . https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.441 ORCID: /0000-0003-3577-0470/work/108868247 ORCID: /0000-0001-8285-4832/work/108868513 85117894592 87de55a3-6d6f-423b-880b-665517a0a9d9 http://hdl.handle.net/10138/340873 cc_by openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 5171 Political Science 1172 Environmental sciences Article publishedVersion 2022 ftunivhelsihelda 2023-12-14T00:09:11Z Many Arctic communities are exposed to energy security risks. Remote settlements rely largely on diesel for energy production, which results in higher consumer prices, negative impacts on the environment and public health. In the past few years, pilot projects for switching remote villages from diesel-generated to wind- and solar-diesel hybrid power plants were realized across the Arctic. Renewable energy projects have a major potential to alleviate energy security risks, promote public health and better environment. Yet, renewable energy does not take hold easily in the Arctic region. Especially in Russia, significant subsidies for fossil fuel present a major disincentive, as well as perpetuate vested interests of national oil companies. Despite the Russian Arctic being a ‘hard case’ for renewables development, there has been both interest in and progress towards the uptake of renewable energy across the Russian Arctic regions. This article contributes to the ‘local turn’ in sustainable energy policy studies by exploring two intertwined questions: which factors contribute to renewable energy development in the Russian Arctic and how do these factors characterise differences between individual Arctic communities? Using a combination of exploratory factor analysis and correspondence analysis in application to the local level (municipal) data, we update the existing models of the factors contributing to renewable energy uptake and put forward four distinct community-level models that describe renewables uptake. We conclude by emphasizing the importance of the local perspective on sustainable energy as a key to explaining differences in observed policy outcomes. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository Arctic Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 8 1 |
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Many Arctic communities are exposed to energy security risks. Remote settlements rely largely on diesel for energy production, which results in higher consumer prices, negative impacts on the environment and public health. In the past few years, pilot projects for switching remote villages from diesel-generated to wind- and solar-diesel hybrid power plants were realized across the Arctic. Renewable energy projects have a major potential to alleviate energy security risks, promote public health and better environment. Yet, renewable energy does not take hold easily in the Arctic region. Especially in Russia, significant subsidies for fossil fuel present a major disincentive, as well as perpetuate vested interests of national oil companies. Despite the Russian Arctic being a ‘hard case’ for renewables development, there has been both interest in and progress towards the uptake of renewable energy across the Russian Arctic regions. This article contributes to the ‘local turn’ in sustainable energy policy studies by exploring two intertwined questions: which factors contribute to renewable energy development in the Russian Arctic and how do these factors characterise differences between individual Arctic communities? Using a combination of exploratory factor analysis and correspondence analysis in application to the local level (municipal) data, we update the existing models of the factors contributing to renewable energy uptake and put forward four distinct community-level models that describe renewables uptake. We conclude by emphasizing the importance of the local perspective on sustainable energy as a key to explaining differences in observed policy outcomes. Peer reviewed |
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Aleksanteri Institute - Finnish Centre for Russian and East European Studies Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS) |
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A local perspective on renewable energy development in the Russian Arctic |
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A local perspective on renewable energy development in the Russian Arctic |
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10.1525/elementa.441 This research has been supported by the Academy of Finland grants # 285959 and # 309723, Fulbright Finland – Fulbright Arctic Initiative Programme 2018–19. Gritsenko , D & Salonen , H 2021 , ' A local perspective on renewable energy development in the Russian Arctic ' , Elementa , vol. 8 , no. 1 , 45 . https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.441 ORCID: /0000-0003-3577-0470/work/108868247 ORCID: /0000-0001-8285-4832/work/108868513 85117894592 87de55a3-6d6f-423b-880b-665517a0a9d9 http://hdl.handle.net/10138/340873 |
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