With 20 centralised plants and over 35 farmscale plants, the digestion of manure and
organic waste is a well established technological practice in Denmark. These plants did not …

This paper reviews long-term development of biofuels in Sweden and the Netherlands. In
particular this paper explores the social dynamics of ‘niche protection’. The Swedish and …

With 21,136 MW of wind energy installed in 2014, India is considered a success story in terms
of net installed capacity. Few existing studies on Indian wind energy have highlighted the …

This article addresses the topic of radical innovation, making two additions to the strategic
niche management (SNM) approach, which conceptualises how innovations cross the ‘valley …

Bioenergy is energy (electricity, heat) produced from organic sources like wood, energy
crops or manure. These sources are called biomass. Biomass is the most important energy …

Biofuels have gained a lot of attention since the implementation of the 2003 European
Directive on biofuels. In the Netherlands the contribution of biofuels is still very limited despite …

There is a huge gap between demand and supply of finance for energy transitions, and the
financial and economic crisis have had a negative impact in the already meagre funds for …

Strategic niche management (SNM), a tool to understand and manage radical socio-technical
innovations and facilitate their diffusion, has always departed from a technical artefact. …

This article examines how local experiments and negotiation processes contribute to social
and field-level learning. The analysis is framed within the niche development literature, …

In the early 2000s Dutch electricity companies are increasingly investing in technologies
that enable them to replace coal with biomass. Replacing large amounts of coal (up to 40%) …