Thesis supervisor
At both the global and national levels, we are seeing a growing trend toward metropolitanization that is calling institutional organization into question. In France, Act III of decentralization, reflected in recent laws on territorial organization, has brought about a profound restructuring of territorial powers, particularly to the benefit of metropolitan areas. The latter are increasingly investing in energy issues in order to use them as a vehicle for developing their expertise and controlling the deployment of energy strategies within their territory. In this thesis, we will analyze the restructuring of local energy governance actors in the context of this emergence of metropolitan areas, comparing several French metropolitan areas through three analytical lenses: What energy strategies for metropolitan areas? What is the internal governance capacity of metropolitan areas in terms of energy? How should metropolitan areas be governed in the face of the emergence of new actors and the questioning of the historical actors in energy systems?
Keywords: Metropolises, Energy transition, Decentralization, Innovations, Governance, Actors
Year of enrollment: 2017
Doctoral school: OMI – Organizations, Markets, Institutions