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Developing the industrial capacity for energy transitions: Resource formation for offshore wind in Europe

Abstract

As energy transitions progress from formative to growth or acceleration phases, issues related to resource formation increase in importance. In this paper we address a type of resource formation that has received scant attention in the sustainability transitions literature to date: developing the industrial capacity to manufacture and deliver key complementary assets (i.e. components and services) to large energy projects. Such supply chain elements constitute a significant share of investment, are crucial for the upscaling of low-carbon technologies, and offer important job and value creation opportunities for different regions and countries. Empirically we study the build-up of industrial capacity to supply key complementary assets to the European offshore wind power market in the 2000–2019 period through three phases (formative, take-off, growth) of development. We provide explanations to observed spatio-temporal patterns of industrial capacity development by considering 1) industry life-cycle dynamics, 2) pre-existing assets and industrial relatedness, and 3) home market opportunities.
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Category

Academic article

Language

English

Author(s)

Affiliation

  • SINTEF Digital / Technology Management
  • University of Oslo
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • NIFU Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education

Year

2024

Published in

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

ISSN

2210-4224

Volume

53

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