TY  - JOUR
AU  - Weimer-Jehle, Wolfgang
AU  - Vögele, Stefan
AU  - Hauser, Wolfgang
AU  - Kosow, Hannah
AU  - Poganietz, Witold-Roger
AU  - Prehofer, Sigrid
TI  - Socio-technical energy scenarios: State-of-the-art and CIB-based approaches
JO  - Climatic change
VL  - 162
SN  - 1573-1480
CY  - Dordrecht [u.a.]
PB  - Springer Science + Business Media B.V
M1  - FZJ-2020-01569
SP  - 1723–1741
PY  - 2020
AB  - Energy conversion is a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and energy transition scenarios are a key tool for gaining a greater understanding of the possible pathways toward climate protection. There is consensus in energy research that political and societal framework conditions will play a pivotal role in shaping energy transitions. In energy scenario construction, this perspective is increasingly acknowledged through the approach of informing model-based energy analysis with storylines about societal futures, an exercise we call “socio-technical energy scenario construction” in this article. However, there is a dispute about how to construct the storylines in a traceable, consistent, comprehensive, and reproducible way. This study aims to support energy researchers considering the use of the concept of socio-technical scenarios in two ways: first, we provide a state-of-the-art analysis of socio-technical energy scenario construction by comparing 16 studies with respect to five categories. Second, we address the dispute regarding storyline construction in energy research and examine 13 reports using the Cross-Impact Balances method. We collated researcher statements on the strengths and challenges of this method and identified seven categories of promises and challenges each
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000517689500002
DO  - DOI:10.1007/s10584-020-02680-y
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/874651
ER  -