Infrastructure/institutions match for resilient & just green electrification

The 2IMATCH consortium examines how green electrification can deliver a more resilient energy system and society in an uncertain world disrupted by several human-made disasters and seemingly persistent global confrontation. With green electrification, we refer to the ongoing transition to a climate neutral and effective system where electricity, based largely on renewable sources, becomes the main energy carrier in all consumption sectors and where electricity-based fuels such as hydrogen, ammonia and methanol become commonplace.

We focus on the involved resilience challenge, and propose that reaping the benefits whilst restraining the new vulnerabilities requires new and refurbished energy infrastructure and institutional adaptation and innovation. We take Finland as a local case of global energy transition owing to the high interaction capacity of Finnish actors.