The Role of the German State in the Emerging Biogas Industry

Lessons for China

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10.2991/aebmr.k.210809.022How to use a DOI?

Keywords

German biogas industry, policies and regulations, renewables-based electricity generation, system functions

Abstract

Germany is an undisputed leader in promoting biogas industry und biogas utilization in the country, using advanced policies. It has gone through 30 years of development in this sector, since the German state first introduced the Electricity Feed-in Act in 1991. This article focuses on the role of the German State in the emerging biogas industry during the period from 1990 to 2009, from which rapid growth of biogas plants and system dynamics in the emerging biogas industry could be observed. The German success also indicates how state intervention could stimulate positive interactions between system functions, leading to a virtuous cycle. As Chinese government also takes actions in accelerating the growth of modern high-efficient bio-energy sector in order to achieve the ambitious goals, strategies to stimulate the development of biogas sector are suggested for Chinese government, based on learning lessons from German state.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Suning Jin
AU  - Jingwei Xu
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/09
TI  - The Role of the German State in the Emerging Biogas Industry
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Transformations and Innovations in Business and Education (ICTIBE 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 157
EP  - 161
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.210809.022
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.210809.022
ID  - Jin2021
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