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From exports to exercise: how non-energy policies affect energy systems

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posted on 2023-06-09, 18:04 authored by Emily Cox, Sarah Royston, Jan Selby
Because of existing policy silos, energy policy tends to be addressed from a narrowly energy-centric basis; yet energy systems are clearly also affected by a wide range of policies emanating from other sectors. This article explores the impacts of policies associated with various ‘non-energy sectors’ on energy supply and demand, using a systematic and wide-ranging review of academic, policy and grey literatures. We discuss six policy sectors where these impacts are, in our assessment, not sufficiently recognised by policymakers or researchers but have significant energy implications. Overall, we find that there is little acknowledgement or analysis of this issue, especially of the full causal chain from ‘non-energy policies’ through to energy system impacts; for whatever reason, consideration of the reverse links (e.g. of the health impacts of energy policies) is far more common. The upshot is that non-energy policy impacts on energy systems are not sufficiently visible within either research or policy. We argue that this serves as a barrier to change, and that increasing the visibility of these complex and multi-faceted connections is thus a vital task for researchers and policymakers alike.

Funding

DEMAND: Dynamics of Energy, Mobility and Demand; G1222; EPSRC-ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL; EP/K011723/1

EDF

Leverhulme; RC-2015-029

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Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Accepted version

Journal

Energy Research and Social Science

ISSN

2214-6296

Publisher

Elsevier

Volume

55

Page range

179-188

Department affiliated with

  • International Relations Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2019-06-14

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2020-06-03

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2019-06-13

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