Wind Power in China: Ambiguous Winds of Change in China's Energy Market

ISBN-13: 9780367583156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 346 str.

Julia Kirch Kirkegaard

Opis

This book explores the interplay in China between economic growth, new sustainable energy, the import of foreign technology, the political decision making process including grassroots consultation, and the economics of energy pricing and its impact. Although the book focuses on wind power, the analysis has much wider implications.

Spis treści

PART I: Setting the context for the controversy study of Chinese ‘greening’ through accelerated wind power development

Prologue: The algorithmic universe of wind power – mapping controversies over China’s ‘wind power miracle’

Chapter One: Upgrading in software algorithms at the core of Chinese wind power development

Chapter Two: Introducing a unique analytical strategy – the Anthropology of Markets

Chapter Three: Setting the scene – empirical background to prise open the blackbox of Chinese wind power development

PART II: Controversy study - mapping five sites of controversy over Chinese wind power development

Chapter Four: Qualification struggle in Chinese wind power – marketisation by advancing towards the brink of collapse?

Chapter Five: Controversy over access to the grid – making space for wind in the Chinese Kingdom of Coal

Chapter Six: Controversy over access to money in China’s spider’s web – diving into the ‘system problem’ of Chinese wind power development

Chapter Seven: Controversy over access to intellectual property rights for software algorithms

Chapter Eight: Controversy over access to standards and certificates

PART III: Conclusions and broader perspectives

Chapter Nine: Conclusions and reflections on Chinese marketisation of wind power development

Chapter Ten: Broadening out perspectives and looking ahead

O autorze

Julia Kirch Kirkegaard is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, as well as at Copenhagen Business School and the Technical University of Denmark