Collaborative Research: Planning for Renewables: Regional Transmission Organizations Managing Tension and Networking Innovation

合作研究：可再生能源规划：区域输电组织管理紧张局势和网络创新

• 批准号: 1261670
• 负责人: Elizabeth Wilson
• 金额: $ 15.83万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-07-15 至 2017-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1261670&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Planning; Renewables; Regional

This project addresses the process of organizational adaptation among "Regional Transmission Organizations" (RTOs), which coordinate the movement of electricity to more than two-thirds of households in the United States. RTOs are highly complex socio-technical organizations that are challenged to facilitate fundamental transformations in how electricity is produced and delivered, driven by individual state mandates requiring increased use of renewable fuel sources (primarily from variable sources such as wind and solar energy). RTOs must adapt to these mandates through policy innovation, a difficult organizational problem since decision-making by RTOs happens within a complex negotiation framework involving a large number of voluntary external stakeholders (e.g., electricity generating companies, regulators, consumer and environmental advocates). The focus of this comparative analysis among three RTOs (serving the Mid-Atlantic, Midwest and California) is to understand how, why, and when these networks of conflicting stakeholders can lead to innovation. The approach blends direct observation of policy-formation processes with semi-structured interviews in an empirical investigation of the configuration of stakeholder networks within RTOs and the communication strategies employed by RTO stakeholders within the policy process.RTOs play a critical role in the transition to more sustainable energy systems, making decisions that are pivotal to environmental quality, economic growth and security, and social well-being. The focus of this research, which is designed to understand processes of communication in complex dynamic organizations, will provide direct insights that can contribute to the sustainable transformation of similar organizations and infrastructures critical to social well-being. Our program of engaged scholarship includes the gathering of primary data on stakeholder perceptions of policy-formation processes within RTOs, as well as meetings and workshops held jointly with university researchers, industry practitioners, and regulators.

该项目解决了“区域传输组织”（RTO）之间组织适应的过程，该过程协调了美国对美国三分之二家庭的运输。 RTO是高度复杂的社会技术组织，其挑战以促进基本转变，这是由需要增加可再生燃料来源使用的个体国家授权（主要来自风能来源（例如风能和太阳能））的个人国家授权而驱动的。 RTO必须通过政策创新来适应这些授权，这是一个困难的组织问题，因为RTO的决策发生在复杂的谈判框架内，涉及大量自愿外部利益相关者（例如，发电公司，监管机构，消费者和环境提倡者）。这种比较分析的重点是三个RTO（服务于大西洋，中西部和加利福尼亚州）的重点是了解如何，为什么以及这些相互矛盾的利益相关者网络如何导致创新。该方法将对政策形成过程的直接观察与半结构化访谈融为一体，在对RTO中利益相关者网络的配置以及RTO利益相关者在政策过程中采用的沟通策略进行的经验研究中。RTOS在对更可持续的能源系统的过渡中起着至关重要的作用，从而使更可持续的能源系统扮演着更具可持续性的能力，从而使环境质量和经济和经济和经济和经济和经济和经济和经济和经济和经济增长和经济增长和经济性和经济性和经济性所起作用。这项研究的重点旨在了解复杂的动态组织中的沟通过程，它将提供直接见解，这些见解可以有助于对社会福祉至关重要的类似组织和基础设施的可持续转型。我们订婚的奖学金计划包括收集有关RTO中利益相关者对政策形成过程的看法的主要数据，以及与大学研究人员，行业从业人员和监管机构共同举办的会议和研讨会。