Organisation of energy regulation - with focus on companies and authorities mutual conditions
The purpoe of the project was to gather information on the experience of companies that are regulated by two regulatory instruments: Energy agreements and environmental approvals.
The goal of the project is to throw some light on the Danish energy actor's relations to industrial energy policy, taking as a starting point a comparison of Danish energy and environmental policies. The Danish energy actors in industrial energy policy are first and foremost national energy authorities, production industries and consultants. The ambition of the project is to investigate the importance of organisation among the energy policy instruments. The project will compare energy and environmental actors' roles. Furthermore, the project examines organisational demands created through individual policy instruments, including accumulation of knowledge among the different actors. A key point in the comparison is a discussion of decentralized and centralized organisation of energy and environment policy. The approah of the project is interdiciplinary. The projects two parallel analyses consisting of an economic analysis (principal agent) and an organisational analysis (social constructivism). The methodical starting point in case studies of relations among environmental and energy authorities, production industries and consultants
The project concentrated on three aspects: firstly, the knowledge contributed by the players' roles in the regulatory process, with a description particularly of the regulatory authorities' role between control and advice; secondly, the effects of the two regulatory instruments as experienced by the companies; and, thirdly, the interaction between the instruments. The case studies idicate that companies, consulants and, for that matter, also local government case officers see no reason for dealing with the two areas separately. On the contary! However, integration of the two regulatory instruments in their present form does not seem particularly appropriate. That is partly because of the institutional inertia in the approval system and partly because the energy agreements are an integral element of the CO2 taxes and therefore cannot be directly to cover the whole environmental area. A better prospect would be to initiate energy and environmental management systems or environmental certification systems in which the requirements concerning energy are equal to the requirements from the Danish Energy Agency
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Nyropsgade 37
DK-1602 København V, Denmark
Kræmer, Trine Pipi (forskningsass.); Projektleder: Rieper, Olaf , 33145949,
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