Anglo-Saxon and German approaches to neoliberalism and environmental policy: The case of financing renewable energy |
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| Authors: | David Toke Volkmar Lauber |
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| Institution: | a Department of Sociology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
b Department of Political Science, University of Salzburg, Rudolfskai 42, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria |
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| Abstract: | ‘Renewable electricity certificate’ trading systems that have been established to promote renewable energy in the UK are a form of neoliberal environmental governance introduced to assimilate environmental objectives with neoliberal hegemony. However, in this case, neoliberal ideological objectives have not been translated into practice since the British Renewable Obligation is not performing as efficiently as its proponents hoped. By contrast, so-called ‘Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff’ (REFIT) systems which involve the fixing of tariffs for renewable energy by governmental intervention, are regarded as producing more efficient outcomes. The use of the REFIT system in Germany is associated with an institutional tradition that places emphasis on giving competitive opportunities to new market entrants in order to break up concentrations of market power by incumbents. |
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| Keywords: | Neoliberal Environmental governance Ordoliberal Tradable green certificates REFIT Metaregulation Renewable energy |
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