พลังงานหมุนเวียนและความคลุมเครือของการเปลี่ยนผ่านพลังงาน

Prasert Rangkla

Authors

Prasert Rangkla Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University.

Keywords:

Renewable energy, Energy transition, Clean energy, Extractivism

Abstract

This article investigates the ideological history of employing renewable energy (RE) to achieve energy transition goals in Germany as well as practices to introduce feed-in tariff (FIT) measures to encourage renewable energy projects in other case studies. Qualitative data was gathered by documentary research and analyzed. Results were that the original energy transition and energy democratization models are due to coherence of technology, energy management systems, social structure, and political culture. In other case studies, renewable energy production and power purchasing provide different consequences. These renewable energy projects are developed within the framework of capitalist ecologies, extractive economy, and unequal political relations. They are opposed by local communities because of negative social and environmental impacts. Therefore, clean power status is inevitably entangled in ambiguities. Availability of new energy sources to increase total power usage amounts to more of an energy accumulation than energy transition.

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