Revised energy policy principles in outline (Anadon et al 2022)

[Robbie Morrison]

Hello all

For those who's work strays over into policy recommendations, the following report from a project led by Exeter University, United Kingdom might be useful:

• Anadon, Laura Diaz, Aled Jones, Cristina Peñasco, Simon Sharpe, Michael Grubb, Sanchit Aggarwal, Nelson Henrique Barbosa Filho, Raktimava Bose, Andrea Cabello, Saswata Chaudhury, Paul Drummond, Doyne Farmer, Chris Foulds, Daniela Freddo, Cameron Hepburn, Vidhu Kapur, Jiang Kejun, Aileen Lam, Jean-Francois Mercure, Lúcia Helena Michels Freitas, Sarah Royston, Pablo Salas, Jorge Viñuales, and Songli Zhu (September 2022). Ten principles for policymaking in the energy transition: lessons from experience. Exeter, United Kingdom: Economics of Energy Innovation and System Transition project.

Here is the summary on page 3 as a PNG screengrab:

Nice to see the earlier neoliberal policymaking principles which have dominated since the mid‑1980s being substituted by this more integrated and nuanced approach.

Nonetheless, a new point 11 could be added:

• Policy analytics need not be released → Policy analytics should be public, reproducible, reusable, and contestable.
  

More on the EEIST project here: https://eeist.co.uk

with best wishes, Robbie

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Robbie Morrison
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[Robbie Morrison]

Hello again

Another ten principles covering policy development, this time from the Tony Blair think tank:

• Sharps, Sam (26 September 2022). Technology and the future of Britain: ten uncomfortable truths for policymakers. London, United Kingdom: Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.

Point 8 states that: Handling public data will soon be as important as handling public money.

But again no coverage of legal context of that subset of public interest data that is public or can be published or of the need for policy analytics to be contestable by independent parties.  Or of peer‑production or the open source revolution more generally for that matter (perhaps because very little of that development indeed took place within the United Kingdom).

That said, I do sense that the policy formation landscape is shifting definitively at the moment — with quite a number of the former truisms now being variously challenged, discredited, and replaced.

Those ten principles from Sharps (2022) for the record:

1. Technology can make today’s best policies look totally outdated tomorrow
2. The new tech revolution is already here
3. Predicting the future is both easy and impossible
4. Government matters more than ever
5. All policy is now tech policy
6. We're about to see existing jobs disappear – but new ones created
7. The public services could soon look as antiquated as steam railways
8. Handling public data will soon be as important as handling public money
9. Technology is a national asset, and the international competition is real
10. The Network State is ready to be built if we have the courage

again with best wishes, Robbie

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