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Smart Energy Transition – Realizing Its Potential for Sustainable Growth for Finland’s Second Century17.2. SeminarRaimo Lovio, Aalto University, School of Business

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Strategic Research Council (Academy of Finland)• The SRC funds high-quality research that has great societal

impact. • Strategic research programmes 2015–2017:

• Disruptive Technologies and Changing Institutions• A Climate-Neutral and Resource-Scarce Finland• Equality in Society

• Energy related in addition to SET• Cloud Computing as an Enabler of Large Scale Variable Distributed

Energy Solutions (BC-DC)• Transition to a resource efficient and climate neutral electricity

system (EL-TRAN)• Sustainable, climate-neutral and resource-efficient forest-based

bioeconomy (FORBIO)

Aalto University School of Business

Aalto University School of Art and Design

Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)

Consumer Society Research Centre, University of Helsinki

Lappeenranta University of Technology

Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU)/Sussex University

VATT Institute for Economic Research

VTT Technical Research Centre

Motiva, City of Lappeenranta, Heureka, FinPro

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www.smartenergytransition.fi

Disruptive technologies & policies

Declining price of renewables:

old and new

Smart grids and smart metering

IoT: e.g. demand respons

Power storages and P2X Net Zero Energy

Buildings

New vehicles and transport

systems

Streghtening climate and

energy policies

New business ecosystems, shifting industry boundaries

Radical changes in the roles of producers, service providers and consumers

Finland’s spearheads of growth: bioeconomy, cleantech & digitalization

Changes in the energy system: distributed & intermittent production; integration of

power, heat anf fuel markets;declining demand in developed

countries

WP5. What are the short and long term policy implications of the disruption?

WP4. What competence gaps and opportunities for learning are found in experiments & pilots?

WP2. What new business models and ecosystems are emerging?

WP1. What are the rate, direction and impacts of the technological disruption?

WP3. What institutional barriers and opportunities are there for benefiting from the disruption?

WP6. How to support

user-producer-

policy interaction

e.g. transition

arenas

Tech panel

Policy panel

User panel

Transition arenas

New society wide

solutions based on disruptive

technologies

Finnish competitive

advantage in bioeconomy,

cleantech and digitalization

Overall project structure

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The International Scientific Advisory Board of SET • Professor Johan Schot, SPRU, University of Sussex• Research Director Måns Nilsson, Stockholm

Environment Institute• Professor Brian Vad Mathiesen, Aalborg University

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Professor Johan Schot• Director of the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University

of Sussex. He was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in 2009.

• A Dutch historian working in the field of science and technology policy, an expert in sustainability transitions.

• the Constructive Technology Assessment framework, Strategic Niche Management and MLP on sustainability transitions

• Current research focuses on the conceptualisation and historical interpretation of Deep Transitions. Building upon the insights of Christopher Freeman and Carlota Perez, the aim is to develop a new version of the Multi-level Perspective (MLP) of Sustainability Transitions that is able to capture the nature and dynamics of Deep Transitions. Professor Schot will also use this new theory to generate insights for the governance of new transition pathways.

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Research Director Måns Nilson

• Research Director at SEI and Visiting Professor in Environmental Strategies Research at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm.

• Interested in energy and climate policy analysis, strategic assessment, innovation, European policy, and global governance.

• Combines academic achievement with extensive management experience, overseeing SEI’s overall research strategy as well as managing multiple research and policy projects and programmes.

• Clients have included the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, the European Commission, the Swedish government, bilateral development agencies and the private sector.