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The Sun Also Rises in Portugal

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Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence. Portugal is among the best-placed European countries to take advantage of solar power, having achieved a five-fold increase in installed capacit...
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  • 23 July 2024
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Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence.

Portugal is among the best-placed European countries to take advantage of solar power, having achieved a five-fold increase in installed capacity during 2017-2023 despite financial constraints. In 2023, its National Energy and Climate Plan set an ambitious target for a further eight-fold increase from 2.5 GW to 20.4 GW by 2030.

How can such fast-paced deployment secure sociospatial justice? What insights do political economic dynamics hold for future transitions? Drawing on long-term, multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, this book is a one-stop resource for policy makers, practitioners, scholars, and anyone interested in just solar energy transitions.

Siddharth Sareen won the 2024 Nils Klim Prize, recognising his exemplary work in the search for renewable and sustainable sources of energy.

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Price: $22.95
Pages: 168
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Publication Date: 23 July 2024
ISBN: 9781529242102
Format: Paperback
BISACs: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Social impact of environmental issues, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / Alternative & Renewable, Environmental policy and protocols, Solar power
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"This is a riveting and comprehensive account of a breakneck lower-carbon energy transition from a preeminent solar scholar. An indispensable tome for anyone passionate about the equity dimensions of climate change mitigation." Ryan Stock, Northern Michigan University
Siddharth Sareen is a human geographer, development researcher and political ecologist. He is Professor in Energy and Environment at the University of Stavanger, and Professor II at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation at the University of Bergen.

one Introduction

two Methodology

three Solar Portugal 2017

four Solar Portugal 2018–2019

five Solar Portugal 2020–2021

six Solar Portugal 2022

seven Solar Portugal 2023

eight Conclusion