Handbook of Energy Governance in Europe

1. Cities in European Energy and Climate Governance

   • Jörg Kemmerzell

2. Clean Energy in the European Green Deal: Perspectives of European Stakeholders

   • Nils Bruch, Marc Ringel, Michèle Knodt

3. Energy Democracy and Participation in Energy Transitions

   • Cornelia Fraune

4. Energy Governance in Armenia

   • Shushanik Minasyan

5. Energy Governance in Austria

   • Niclas Wenz

6. Energy Governance in Azerbaijan

   • Murad Nasibov

7. Energy Governance in Belgium

   • Thijs Van de Graaf, Erik Laes, Aviel Verbruggen

8. Energy Governance in Croatia

   • Ana-Maria Boromisa

9. Energy Governance in Denmark

   • Helene Dyrhauge

10. Energy Governance in Europe: Country Comparison and Conclusion

    • Jörg Kemmerzell, Nils Bruch, Michèle Knodt

11. Energy Governance in Europe: Introduction

    • Michèle Knodt, Jörg Kemmerzell

12. Energy Governance in Finland

    • Mikael Hildén, Paula Kivimaa

13. Energy Governance in France

    • Pierre Bocquillon, Aurélien Evrard

14. Energy Governance in Germany

    • Jörg Kemmerzell

15. Energy Governance in Greece

    • Marula Tsagkari

16. Energy Governance in Hungary

    • John Szabo, Csaba Weiner, András Deák

17. Energy Governance in Ireland

    • Diarmuid Torney

18. Energy Governance in Italy

    • Maria Rosaria Di Nucci, Daniele Russolillo

19. Energy Governance in Latvia

    • Sigita Urdze

20. Energy Governance in Lithuania

    • Šarūnas Liekis

This Handbook provides the most comprehensive account of energy governance in Europe, examining both energy governance at the European level and the development of energy policy in 30 European countries. Authored by leading scholars, the first part of the book offers a broad overview of the topics of energy research, including theories of energy transitions, strategies and norms of energy policy, governance instruments in the field, and challenges of energy governance. In the second part, it examines the internal and external dimensions of energy governance in the European Union. The third part presents in-depth country studies, which investigate national trajectories of energy policy, including an analysis of the policy instruments and coordination mechanisms for energy transitions. It closes with a comparative analysis of national energy governance. This book is a definitive resource for scholars in energy and climate research as well as decision makers in national governments and EU institutions.

• Energy policy
• European energy governance
• Energy transition
• Renewable energy
• Energy security
• Sustainablity
• Comparative policy
• EU governance
• Future energy systems
• Climate policy

• Institute of Political Science, Technical University of Darmstadt Institute of Political Science, Darmstadt, Germany

  Michèle Knodt, Jörg Kemmerzell

Michèle Knodt is Professor of Political Science, Jean Monnet Chair (ad personam) and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence ‘EU in Global Dialogue’ (CEDI), Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence ‘EU@School’, Chair of the COST Network ENTER (EU Foreign Policy Facing New Realities), Co-leader of the Loewe-Excellence Centre ‘emergenCITY’, Co-leader of the DFG Research Training Group ‘Critical Infrastructures’, PI in the Kopernikus Project ‘Ariadne – Evidence-Based Assessment for the Design of the German Energy System Transformation’, and leader of smaller cooperative and interdisciplinary projects. She has published widely on the EU, is especially interested in energy and climate governance and has received research grants from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), the German Research Council (DFG), the Volkswagen Foundation and the European Commission.

Jörg Kemmerzell received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, in 2007. His research interests include energy and climate policy in multilevel systems, comparative politics and methods, and applied theory of democracy. He has published over 50 journal articles, books, and book chapters mostly on energy and climate policy and related topics. After finishing his Ph.D., Jörg Kemmerzell worked as a researcher and lecturer in Political Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Hildesheim (Germany). Since 2012, he was a senior researcher in four research projects of the German Research Council (DFG) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), focusing on climate policy of cities and the assessment of the German energy transition. He worked also as a consultant for research communication. Since 2021, he is a senior lecturer in Political Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt and a research associate in the Kopernikus project ’Ariadne – Evidence-Based Assessment for the Design of the German Energy System Transformation’.

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