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Do renewable sources of energy exist? Can the energy transition be steered?

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  • Hervé Dumez

    (i3-CRG - Centre de recherche en gestion i3 - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - Université Paris-Saclay - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Sandra Renou

    (i3-CRG - Centre de recherche en gestion i3 - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - Université Paris-Saclay - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

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References are often made to the "sector of renewables" when talking about the energy transition. This article focuses on the difficulty of defining this sector, given its heterogeneity, and on its institutional construction around a metaorganization, a trade group of renewables, in interaction with public authorities: the Syndicat des Énergies Renouvelables. Wittgenstein's concept of "language game" is used to analyze this construction. The crisis of photovoltaics in France is reviewed to shed light on the difficulty of steering the energy transition.

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  • Hervé Dumez & Sandra Renou, 2019. "Do renewable sources of energy exist? Can the energy transition be steered?," Post-Print hal-03089097, HAL.
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