New Challenges and Solutions for Renewable Energy

Paul Midford is Professor of Political Science and Director of the NTNU Japan Program, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).Espen Moe is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the NTNU Japan Council at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. New Challenges and Opportunities in Japan.- Chapter 2. Japan’s Energy Policy and Community Power Movement after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident.- Chapter 3. Why Japan is No-longer a Front-runner: Domestic Politics, Renewable Energy and Climate Change Policy.- Chapter 4. Reforming Japan’s Nuclear Regulation After 3/11.- Chapter 5. The Politics of Nuclear Power Plant Restarts versus Renewable Energy Promotion.- Chapter 6. Renewable Energy as a New Choice for Consumers: The Case of Minna Denryoku.- Chapter 7. Betting on Hydrogen: Japan’s Green Industrial Policy.- Part II. New Challenges and Opportunities in East Asia.- Chapter 8. Between Rhetoric and Reality: Renewable Energy Promotion versus. Adoption in South Korea.- Chapter 9. China’s Promotion of Wind and Solar Power: Supportive Policies, Geographical Challenges and Market Competition.- Chapter 10. Solar PV in Singapore in the Absence of Subsidies.- Chapter 11. Renewable Energy Policy in Vietnam.- PartIII. New Challenges and Opportunities in Norden.- Chapter 12. Why Norway as a Green Battery to Europe is Still to Happen, and Probably Will Not.- Chapter 13. Beyond Wind: New Challenges to the Expansion of Renewables in Denmark.- Chapter 14. Renewable Energy in Finland: from a Production-Centric to a Consumption-Centric System.- Chapter 15. Conclusions: New Challenges to Renewables in Comparative Perspective.