The ideational impacts of Indonesia's renewable energy project failures

IF 4.4 2区 工程技术 Q2 ENERGY & FUELS
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Transitioning to a sustainable future involves a comprehensive shift into a new technical configuration and set of institutional arrangements. Despite global efforts to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs), many energy projects have failed due to technical and institutional problems and misunderstandings. Failure leads to uncertainty at the end of long-term transformative change, but discussion of failure in socio-technical transitions has been limited as the current body of knowledge focuses primarily on highlighting ‘winning’ innovations and their historical path. Exploring project failure can potentially reveal the misalignments in socio-technological configurations that lead to stagnation in progression of transition trajectories. Failures have discursive implications as they can result in a period of instability and so trigger actors to revisit their commitment towards transition visions and effectiveness of trajectories. This article contributes to debates around project failures by tracing their impact on overarching ideas of transition. The case of Sumba Iconic Island (SII), as one of the strategic efforts of Indonesia's energy transition, is selected for an in-depth exploration. Our analysis found that the ideational power of SII, which is embedded in the overarching discourse of Indonesia's energy transition, is relatively stable despite numerous technical and managerial failures. However, people's trust in renewable energy ambition has been diminished as centralised diesel-generated electricity offers better reliability.
印度尼西亚可再生能源项目失败对意识形态的影响
向可持续未来过渡涉及到向新的技术结构和一系列制度安排的全面转变。尽管全球都在努力实现可持续发展目标(SDGs),但由于技术和制度问题以及误解,许多能源项目都以失败告终。失败导致长期转型变革结束时的不确定性,但由于当前的知识体系主要侧重于强调 "成功 "的创新及其历史路径,因此对社会技术转型失败的讨论一直很有限。对项目失败的探讨有可能揭示社会-技术配置中导致转型轨迹停滞不前的错位。失败具有话语意义,因为它可能导致一段不稳定时期,从而引发参与者重新审视他们对转型愿景的承诺和转型轨迹的有效性。本文通过追溯项目失败对转型总体思路的影响,为有关项目失败的讨论做出贡献。本文选择了印尼能源转型的战略努力之一--松巴标志性岛屿(SII)的案例进行深入探讨。我们的分析发现,尽管在技术和管理方面屡遭失败,但印尼能源转型总体话语中蕴含的松巴标志性岛屿的意识形态力量相对稳定。然而,由于集中式柴油发电具有更好的可靠性,人们对可再生能源雄心的信任度已经降低。
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Energy for Sustainable Development
Energy for Sustainable Development ENERGY & FUELS-ENERGY & FUELS
CiteScore
8.10
自引率
9.10%
发文量
187
审稿时长
6-12 weeks
期刊介绍: Published on behalf of the International Energy Initiative, Energy for Sustainable Development is the journal for decision makers, managers, consultants, policy makers, planners and researchers in both government and non-government organizations. It publishes original research and reviews about energy in developing countries, sustainable development, energy resources, technologies, policies and interactions.
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