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Conflicts and negotiation processes in the course of power grid extension in Germany

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  • Olaf Kühne
  • Florian Weber

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The political decision to decommission all German nuclear power plants by 2022 has brought significant changes in the areas of energy supply and transmission. The development of renewable energies has become the centrepiece of political activity, and the reorganisation and extension of the existing power grid is widely considered a necessary consequence. However, this logic is not espoused by all. Some reject the need for grid extension altogether; others criticise the construction of overhead power lines and favour buried cabling. The issue has sparked massive citizens’ protests in which specific arguments recur with regularity, notably ‘disfigurement of the landscape’, ‘destruction of nature’ and—in Bavaria—‘loss of home environment’. The article examines the central lines of argumentation used both in favour of and against grid extension from a discourse theory perspective, with a focus on ‘landscape’ and ‘home’. This entails a social-constructivist understanding of landscape.

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  • Olaf Kühne & Florian Weber, 2018. "Conflicts and negotiation processes in the course of power grid extension in Germany," Landscape Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(4), pages 529-541, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:clarxx:v:43:y:2018:i:4:p:529-541
    DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2017.1300639
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    1. Titz, Maurizio & Pütz, Sebastian & Witthaut, Dirk, 2024. "Identifying drivers and mitigators for congestion and redispatch in the German electric power system with explainable AI," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 356(C).
    2. Glaum, Philipp & Hofmann, Fabian, 2023. "Leveraging the existing German transmission grid with dynamic line rating," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 343(C).
    3. Olaf Kühne, 2020. "Landscape Conflicts—A Theoretical Approach Based on the Three Worlds Theory of Karl Popper and the Conflict Theory of Ralf Dahrendorf, Illustrated by the Example of the Energy System Transformation in," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(17), pages 1-20, August.
    4. Olaf Kühne & Lara Koegst & Marie-Luise Zimmer & Greta Schäffauer, 2021. "“... Inconceivable, Unrealistic and Inhumane”. Internet Communication on the Flood Disaster in West Germany of July 2021 between Conspiracy Theories and Moralization—A Neopragmatic Explorative Study," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(20), pages 1-22, October.
    5. Demirci, Alpaslan & Öztürk, Zafer & Tercan, Said Mirza, 2023. "Decision-making between hybrid renewable energy configurations and grid extension in rural areas for different climate zones," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 262(PA).

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