Handbook of Energy Governance in Europe

Michele Knodt is Full professor (since 2005) and Jean Monnet Professor (since 2011) in Political Science, specialised in EU Governance, and principle investigator and active member of the TU Darmstadt Energy Center. She coordinates several international, interdisciplinary research projects on Energy Transition ("System Integration and Networks for the Energy Supply", funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research"); EU External Energy Governance towards the emerging powers (VW Foundation, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and Compagnia de San Paolo) with 11 partners in EU and emerging powers; an EU Project on 'Images of the EU as a global energy actor' (Co-Leader), and on the transnational dimension of innovations in local climate and energy policy (funded by the German Research Foundation DFG). Joerg Kemmerzell is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Political Science at the Technische Universitat Darmstadt in Germany. He is affiliated to the research project "System Integration and Networks for the Energy Supply", funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research. Prior to that, he conducted two research projects on local climate policy ("Municipal networks, city competition, and local policy learning in times of climate change"; "Trans-local action and local innovations in climate change. A comparative analysis of major German cities"). His research is on comparative politics in general, with a particular interest in energy and climate policy in multilevel settings. He is a member of the TU Darmstadt research cluster on Future Energy Systems.

1. Introduction: Energy Governance in Europe.- 2. Energy Governance Research: Theories, Issues, and Problems.- Energy research in the social sciences: history and developments .- The Politics of Green Transformations.- Instruments of renewable energy promotion .- Energy Justice.- Energy poverty .- Transition of energy systems: patterns of stability and change.- Steering and Monitoring in Energy Policy.- Extending energy policy: the challenge of sector integration .- Participation in energy transitions.- 3. Global Energy Governance.- Global Energy Challenge. Environment, Development and Security.- Politics and Institutions of Global energy governance.- Fragmentation in international energy institution.- Global Energy Dilemmas.- 4. European Governance.- European Union Energy Governance.- Energy policies in the EU - a fiscal federalism perspective.- An emerging EU strategic energy narrative? Twitter communication during the EU's sustainable energy week.- EU Energy Cooperation with the "BICS" Countries.- EU-Russian Energy cooperation.- EU-US Energy cooperation.- EU-Canada Energy cooperation .- Energy matters in the EU Eastern Partnership.- Energy matters in the EU Southern Partnership.- Regional Energy Cooperation in Central and South East Europe.- Making sense of the EU's external energy governance in the Caspian Sea: Energy security and pipeline politics.- Third countries adoption of European Energy Regulations.- The Politics of Nuclear Energy in the European Union.- The Politics of fossil fuels in the European Union.- The Politics of Renewable Energy in the European Union.- European Energy Charter Treaty.- European Transmission Network Regulation.- Regional cooperation within the EU.- The EU and the local level in Energy Policy.- Energy Policy through transnational Cooperation: the Covenant of Mayors.- 5. Country Studies.- Introduction: National Energy Governance. Building Blocks of a Framework for Analysis.- Energy Governance in Albania.- Energy Governance in Armenia.- Energy Governance in Austria.- Energy Governance in Azerbaijan.- Energy Governance in Belgium.- Energy Governance in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the small states on the Western Balkans.- Energy Governance in Croatia.- Energy Governance in the Czech Republic.- Energy Governance in Denmark.- Energy Governance in Estonia.- Energy Governance in Finland.- Energy Governance in France.- Energy Governance in Georgia.- Energy Governance in Germany.- Energy Governance in Greece.- Energy Governance in Hungary.- Energy Governance in Ireland.- Energy Governance in Iceland.- Energy Governance in Italy.- Energy Governance in Latvia.- Energy Governance in Lithuania.- Energy Governance in Luxembourg.- Energy Governance in Malta.- Energy Governance in Moldavia.- Energy Governance in Netherlands.- Energy Governance in Norway.- Energy Governance in Poland.- Energy Governance in Portugal.- Energy Governance in Romania.- Energy Governance in Russia.- Energy Governance in Serbia.- Energy Governance in Slovakia.- Energy Governance in Slovenia.- Energy Governance in Spain.- Energy Governance in Sweden.- Energy Governance in Switzerland.- Energy Governance in Turkey.- Energy Governance in the.- Energy Governance in the United Kingdom.- 6. Comparison and conclusion.