5 spunti per approfondire (32/2024)

La rubrica settimanale con i consigli di lettura di RivistaEnergia.it, dall’Europa e dal mondo. Settimana 32/2024

“Chevron is relocating to Texas, deserting California, its home state for more than 140 years, where the business climate has soured for oil companies. The second-largest U.S. oil company said Friday it plans to move its global headquarters to Houston, the U.S. energy industry capital. Chevron has built a stronghold of about 7,000 employees there, partly from a matriculation of executives and white-collar workers decamping from California.”

Chevron to Leave California for Texas, as Regulations Mount in Golden State
Articolo – The Wall Street Journal

“Tim Walz, tapped as Vice-President Kamala Harris’s running mate on Tuesday, may not be a household name, but the Minnesota governor is well known as a climate champion in green advocacy circles. “Like Vice-President Harris, Governor Walz knows that climate change is the existential threat of our time,” the Sierra Club executive director, Ben Jealous, said in a statement. “The Harris-Walz ticket is one that understands the fight before us.” Walz has forged a robust climate record during his two gubernatorial terms, most notably by signing one of the strongest green energy bills into law last year.”

Democrats’ VP pick Tim Walz welcomed as climate champion by green advocates
Articolo – The Guardian

“When Sir Keir Starmer proposed a state-owned company called Great British Energy in September 2022, he was aping the man dragged out of 10 Downing St two months earlier. Sir Keir had studied Boris Johnson’s bracing pledge to “take back control” in the 2016 Brexit referendum. Adapting this mantra, the then opposition leader griped that the only governments with a stake in Britain’s energy system were foreign ones, from Sweden, France and China. GB Energy would secure “British power for British people”. It would also allow him to ditch a more radical plan for wholesale renationalisation. Now that Labour is in government, the question is whether good politics can become good policy. Sir Keir has long been breezy about what exactly a new “national champion” for energy would do. In a speech on July 25th at a wind-turbine factory in Widnes, he gave more clues. The plan still comes wrapped in misty-eyed patriotism; some of it raises eyebrows. But at its core is a sensible urge to use the power of the state to speed private development.”

What will Great British Energy do?
The Economist

“German utility EnBW (EBKG.DE), opens new tab is considering whether to use Chinese wind turbines for future projects, its chief financial officer said on Friday, saying the number of Western suppliers was fairly small and pointing to potential economic benefits. “It is indeed the case that we naturally only have a limited number of suppliers for wind turbines. This applies to onshore as well as offshore,” Thomas Kusterer told reporters after presenting first-half results.”

EnBW may consider Chinese wind turbines for future projects
Articolo – Reuters

“Energy justice literature provides no clear indications on why energy justice is sometimes not safeguarded in decision-making processes. What is needed is a theoretical understanding of how decision-makers balance different considerations. Drawing on public values theory, we build a theoretical lens for understanding decision-making in the energy transition. Through this lens, we recognize that decision-makers can (i) altogether overlook justice, (ii) misunderstand justice as something other than energy justice, or (iii) sideline energy justice. To analyze decision-making processes through this lens, we introduce a three-step research approach. The first step involves mapping the multitude of public values at stake in energy system change. The second and third steps focus on identifying which public values are pursued and how decision-makers balance these values. In this article, we cover the first step by presenting a public values categorization based on literature review, thereby providing a stepping stone for future research using the public values approach. Ultimately, the public values approach offers essential insights into whether and how decision-makers in the energy transition consider and balance justice concerns. These insights can serve as starting points for more in-depth studies on the factors shaping decision-makers’ value orientations and decision-making processes. As such, the theoretical approach presented in this paper provides the basis for developing an understanding of decision-making in the energy transition and its impact on energy justice.”

A public values perspective on energy justice: Building a theoretical lens for understanding decision-making in the energy transition
Ricerca – Energy Research & Social Science

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