Why is Chinese Taiwan's Energy Transition Sluggish?A Perspective of Transformation for Social-Technical System
Although Chinese Taiwan pays more attention to promoting energy transition,it has made slow progress compared to the global process of energy transition.The existing research lacks an integrated explanatory framework on this topic based on a long period of time.Based on the theory of social-technical system,a dynamic analysis framework for energy transition in Taiwan can be constructed from three levels:Security requirements,Actor alliance and Carbon lock-in.This framework can then be used to explain the delayed energy transformation.The study found that the specific reasons for the sluggishness of energy transition in Chinese Taiwan include:firstly,the electrical power shortage is more urgent than the pressure brought by climate and environmental changes on Chinese Taiwan,and energy policies reflect social security more;secondly,due to the Cumulative social division structure and the winner takes all political system,it is more difficult for Chinese Taiwan to form a coalition of stakeholders to promote energy transition;thirdly,the path dependence effect of a carbon lock-in society makes it difficult for Chinese Taiwan society to shift away from the production and living mode of high-carbon and low-priced electricity.Theoretically,although the study focuses on the Taiwan region,the aforementioned framework possesses a certain level of universality and proposes a hypothesis regarding actor alliances.Practically,as political polarization increases,the divergence in energy policies in the West is bound to deepen.Additionally,exploring the energy transition in Taiwan also facilitates the integrated economic and social development across the Taiwan Strait.
Energy TransitionSocial-technical SystemEnergy PolicyChinese Taiwan
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