Abstract
A Guide to EU Renewable Energy Policy: Comparing Europeanization and Domestic Policy Change in EU Member States
Highlights
The European Union’s (EU) renewable energy policy has been in the making for decades
It traces the tension between attempts to centralize renewable energy governance at the EU level and the preferences of several member states for a flexible framework that allows for a wide range of national support policies – these positions being to a large degree determined by different national political and economic contexts for renewable energy sources (RES) promotion
While the United Kingdom (UK) stands as a successful shaper of EU renewable energy policy, its implementation record and the achieving of its RES goals are rather weak
Summary
The European Union’s (EU) renewable energy policy has been in the making for decades. It is hard to speak about renewable energy sources (RES) in Spain without alluding to the role the European Union (EU) has played in its promotion at the national level, both in the case of RES for electricity (RES-E) and biofuels. Poland behaves generally as a laggard when it comes to the implementation of European Union (EU) renewable energy policy This label applies especially to the electricity sector, where close links between the government and state-owned energy enterprises hinder the development of RES for electricity (RES-E). The accession to the EU in 1986 allowed the flow of economic resources that came to strengthen the incipient Spanish policy renewable energy policy This context facilitated a favorable starting point to Spain concerning RES promotion in comparison with other European countries By 1990 the Spanish share of RES in gross inland consumption was already a 6.7 percent, the seventh of the EU-15
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