Infrastructure/institutions match for resilient & just green electrification (2023–2026)
2IMATCH consortium examines how green electrification can deliver a more resilient energy system and society in the current uncertain world; this requires matching infrastructure development with institutional development. While green electrification offers considerable resilience benefits since it uses domestically available renewable sources and will have a networks structure combining effective large-scale infrastructures with small-scale centralized ones, the system nevertheless brings new vulnerabilities related to the use of electricity throughout the society. 2IMATCH propose that reaping the benefits whilst restraining the new vulnerabilities require new and refurbished energy infrastructure, and institutional adaptation and innovation.
Consortium partners are Tampere University (lead), VTT Technical Research Ltd, Finnish Environment Institute, Finnish Institute of International Affairs and UEF Law School. Funding period 2023 – 2026.
UEF Law School examines regulatory and policy initiatives and their implementation especially in the EU and the USA (such as the Inflation Reduction Act and the proposed Net Zero Industry Act), extending to the new geopolitics of energy where competition increases for critical/strategic minerals and policies that aim for strategic autonomy, foreign investment screening and/or reshoring/friendshoring.
For more information, Sirja-Leena Penttinen, sirja-leena.penttinen@uef.fi