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Farid Karimi, PhD, is an Environmental Social Scientist. He received MSc. in Sustainable Energy Technology (Major in Energy and Society) from the Delft University of Technology and PhD in Environmental Social Science from the University of Helsinki. His research interests lie in the field of social sciences of sustainable energy, climate change and energy politics. He has taught courses on global environmental challenges, environment and culture and cross-cultural risk governance, among others.
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February 2021 - January 2023
April 2019 - February 2021
Education
November 2012 - August 2017
University of Helsinki
Field of study
- Environmental Social Science
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Publications (22)
The transition to a sustainable energy regime is not just an engineering question, but a social and cultural issue as well. In this paper, we consider one contested technology still in development, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), from a socio-cultural perspective. CCS is widely deemed to be a necessary bridging technology to a low-carbon economy,...
https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/03/08/war-in-ukraine-and-energy-dependency-what-europe-needs-to-do-to-wean-itself-off-russian-ga
This book analyses the potential for active stakeholder engagement in the energy transition in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) in order to foster clean energy deployment.
Public acceptability and bottom-up activities can be critical for enduring outcomes to an energy transition. As a result, it is vital to understand how to unlock the potential for pu...
Karimi F. Peer Review Report For: Financing conditions of renewable energy projects – results from an EU wide survey [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 1 approved with reservations]. Open Res Europe 2021, 1:136 (https://doi.org/10.21956/openreseurope.15054.r29019)
Med en energiomställning vill man minska koldioxidutsläppen från energisystemet genom att övergå från fossila bränslen till förnybar energi för att säkerställa en hållbar utveckling och mildra klimatförändringen. En sådan övergång innebär betydande förändringar för samhällets energianvändning.
According to EU goals and the Paris Agreement, an urgent need exists for reducing CO2 emissions while still securing energy supply. Thus, the timely deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) is seemingly unavoidable, especially for the cement and steel industries. However, diverse perceptions of CCS among stakeholders such as experts, politici...
Much potential exists in the Baltic Sea region (BSR) regarding CC(U)S and at least on the research side, there has been a steady stream of activities over the years. Potential storage sites are localized in the Baltic Basin within several countries such as Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Russia. However, the BSR is still lagging behind in dep...
https://phil.uni-greifswald.de/en/departments/facilities-organisations/ifzo/research-groups/energy/energy-detailview/n/stepping-stones-to-an-integrated-electricity-market-in-the-baltic-sea-region-78719/
In order to meet the climate targets established by the European Union and the Paris Agreement, it is essential to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the Baltic Sea Region while securing the energy supply. In addition, for various political and security reasons, there is a preference for minimising reliance on Russian energy sources, particularly i...
My commentary on the recent development of the controversial Nordstream2 project:
https://phil.uni-greifswald.de/en/departments/facilities-organisations/ifzo/ifzo-news-history/ifzo-news-detailed-view/n/sassnitz-washington-bruessel-und-berlin-die-entwicklung-der-kontroverse-um-nord-stream-2-71279/
We scrutinise the controversial carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology from a cross-cultural perspective. The reaction of the public to CCS will considerably affect the development of the technology. Previous research has identified general and local mechanisms in how the general public reacts to CCS. Researchers have noticed that differences...
The barriers and hence also policies to energy system flexibility are numerous. In this brief, we focus on policy recommendations for two important barriers to flexibility in the Nordic electricity market, namely insufficient market signals to some stakeholders, and uneven market frameworks for different renewable energy resources.
We present seven...
Detailed analysis for the policy brief: BETTER POLICIES ACCELERATE CLEAN ENERGY TRANSITION
CCS is considered a transition measure to a completely sustainable energy regime. Nonetheless, in recent years, several projects have been cancelled or postponed. This raises some questions about temporal issues.
This study defines temporal features (i.e. frame, timing, tempo, and duration) for policy making and deployment of large-scale CCS projec...
The challenge of making the transition to a sustainable energy regime is not limited to engineering; it has important social and political dimensions. Therefore, implementation of new technologies, such as carbon capture and storage (CCS), requires not only economic and technical capacities but also an understanding of social factors. These factors...
https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/194785
A consensus exists that the current trend of energy consumption growth and CO2 emissions cannot continue if global warming is to be tackled. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) has been considered in many countries for addressing climate change. CCS is a technology that curbs CO2 emission by removing CO2...
In line with other renewable energy resources, bioenergy is burgeoning (Müller et al., 2015). However, some concerns and challenges exist regarding biomass production for bioenergy such as deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions and food insecurities (ibid). Therefore, for developing the bioenergy systems on large scale, we should consider those ch...
In this research, the highly controversial Carbon Capture and Storage technology is scrutinized from the cultural structures perspective. We argue that it is crucial to have a richer understanding of where public opinion on the technology comes from, and we develop a model that helps to understanding this. We use survey data provided by the Eurobar...
Recent decisions for a "carbon-free" Norway by 2050 have raised public expectations, thus forcing the need for full-scale plants construction. In line with the spirit of these decisions Mongstad and Kårstø projects were initiated. These two ambitious efforts were halted recently. In this study, an effort for unveiling the reasons for that postponem...
http://repository.tudelft.nl/view/ir/uuid%3A28ae8fa4-6e9c-4343-aceb-290ede710d7b/
The main objective of this research is to investigate the cost effectiveness and benefit of carbon capture and storage technology. Cost – benefit analysis is a tool which the author deploys to assess CCS. The case study of this research is the Netherlands. The calcula...
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Developing Energy Research Group with a focus on the Baltic Sea Region locates at the University of Greifswald, Germany.
The goal of this project is to provide a platform for discussion about issues related to energy politics, policy and governance. One of the aim of this is to establish an ECPR Standing Group on Energy Policy Research (or with similar name), however, the platform should serve energy policy community in general. Members are encouraged to share their research, ask questions, post calls for papers, etc.
Also, do not forget to fill in your e-mail address into the googlesheet below so we can let the sheer amount of energy-interested researchers speak for itself when presenting our proposal to ECPR:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OV-GYUMM_EAbiQYfOWUybGRUKeLZ4TYjgBfFMa3ZQCM/edit#gid=0
