Ziyuan Kexue (Jul 2024)
A study on policies and laws for promoting China’s deep-far offshore wind power from the perspective of scientific and technological innovation
Abstract
[Objective] The limit of exploitable energy resources on land and near-shallow offshore, the modern social demand for clean energy, and the more serious pollution and higher greenhouse gas emissions from fossil energy production and consumption activities relative to renewable and clean energy have made the development of deep-far offshore wind power a key area in the new round of energy revolution. Examining the relevant policies and laws in China from the perspective of scientific and technological innovation, discovering the problems and proposing solutions to them could provide guarantees of policies and laws for promoting high-quality development of China’s deep-far offshore wind power. [Methods] Taking the paradigm of the science of field law, and employing logic and normative analysis methods, this study examined the effect and efficiency of promoting and safeguarding scientific and technological innovations in the policies and laws for China’s development of deep-far offshore wind power. [Results] We found that the lack of drive of science and technology in the current policies and laws is manifested in three aspects. (1) The lack of policy guidance in terms of strategic position and planning system; (2) The lack of legal protection, which is manifested in the status of scientific and technological innovation in legislative orientation, and the connectivity of the laws on deep-far offshore wind power to the general legal system on scientific and technological innovation; (3) The lack of procedural synergy and substantive synergy between policies and laws. [Conclusion] In order to address or these deficiencies, the following approaches could be employed: (1) Enhancing the strategic status of deep-far offshore wind power, with basic policies guiding the direction of scientific and technological innovation and supportive policies as complement, while formulating relevant development plans in time; (2) Specifying the core status of scientific and technological innovation on deep-far offshore wind power in relevant laws and strengthening the connectivity of the laws on deep-far offshore wind power to the general legal system on scientific and technological innovation; and (3) Strengthening the synergy among policies and laws in terms of both procedure and substance.
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