1st Edition

Wind Power in China Ambiguous Winds of Change in China's Energy Market

By Julia Kirch Kirkegaard Copyright 2019
370 Pages
by Routledge

370 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

370 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Whilst China’s growing economy is widely regarded as being responsible for severe environmental degradation and a high reliance on energy from fossil fuels, China is emerging as a potential leader in new green energy technologies. Outlining the extraordinary growth in China’s wind power capacity since 2005, this book explores the deliberate creation of a whole industry and the strategy of... Read more

PART I: Setting the context for the controversy study of Chinese ‘greening’ through accelerated wind power development



Prologue: The algorithmic universe of wind power – mapping controversies over China’s ‘wind power miracle’



Chapter One: Upgrading in software algorithms at the core of Chinese wind power development



Chapter Two: Introducing a unique analytical strategy – the Anthropology of Markets



Chapter Three: Setting the scene – empirical background to prise open the blackbox of Chinese wind power development





PART II: Controversy study - mapping five sites of controversy over Chinese wind power development



Chapter Four: Qualification struggle in Chinese wind power – marketisation by advancing towards the brink of collapse?



Chapter Five: Controversy over access to the grid – making space for wind in the Chinese Kingdom of Coal



Chapter Six: Controversy over access to money in China’s spider’s web – diving into the ‘system problem’ of Chinese wind power development



Chapter Seven: Controversy over access to intellectual property rights for software algorithms



Chapter Eight: Controversy over access to standards and certificates





PART III: Conclusions and broader perspectives



Chapter Nine: Conclusions and reflections on Chinese marketisation of wind power development



Chapter Ten: Broadening out perspectives and looking ahead

Biography

Julia Kirch Kirkegaard is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, as well as at Copenhagen Business School and the Technical University of Denmark