Facing the Energy Transition: An Introduction

To reconcile sustainable economic growth and climate change mitigation, it is necessary to re-think the current energy model. The commitments of the Paris Climate Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals will not be achieved unless energy systems around the world are fundamentally transformed. The energy architecture of the future requires an appropriate framework to cope with different strategies of how this transformation might be approached. The special issue aims to shed light on the role of markets and networks for the energy transition and analyses the appropriate economic, regulatory and policy framework to enable highly integrated, flexible, clean, and efficient energy systems. It is related to the VI International Academic Symposium “Facing the Energy Transition: Markets and Networks” organized in February 2018 by the Chair of Energy Sustainability at the University of Barcelona