Turning Wind into Power

Renewable energy has an important role to play as they provide solutions to pressing environmental and developmental challenges particularly in developing countries. Taking spatial variations in the case of the Indian wind sector as research puzzle, this book explores the conditions under which wind energy projects are successfully deployed in Indian states. Comparing the concrete cases of wind energy governance in Tamil Nadu to Kerala aims to understand what successful deployment requires and derives at the relevance of local stakeholder networks. The objective is to map and to examine contextual requirements for effective renewable energy governance in a developing countries setting. In this sense, the stakeholder network concept constitutes the analytical and conceptual approach to explore mechanisms and dynamics of multilevel actors’ relations. As central research result, the characteristics and dynamics of emerging local governance arrangements are a key factor explaining mechanisms and effects of renewable energy governance in the selected states.

Gudrun Elisabeth Benecke holds a Master’s Degree in International Relation from the University of Potsdam, the Free University and the Humboldt University of Berlin and a B.Sc. Degree in Geography with Applied Economics from the University of Plymouth (UK). From 2006 to 2010 she was a research fellow at Potsdam University and worked for the project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Contents: Spatial variations in renewable energy deployment – Governance failure or market failure? – Interdisciplinary perspectives on renewable energy deployment in developing countries – Drivers of renewable energy deployment in India - Empirical analysis – Explaining renewable energy governance in the framework of sociological perspectives – Conditions for wind energy development in Tamil Nadu and in Kerala - Empirical exploration – The role of stakeholder net-works for effective renewable energy governance in developing countries. Inhaltsverzeichnis