Scholars have yet to devote sufficient attention to the reciprocal relationship between renewable energy (RE) and the dynamics of political borders. This oversight is surprising given the tangible examples demonstrating how RE projects are strategically sited as part of, near, across, and even distant from political borders. This study asserts that the selection of border sites for RE is influenced by the interplay of conditions prevalent in borderlands. Accordingly, it seeks to establish a theoretical foundation for the search for causalities between conditions in contact zones on the fringes of national states (borderlands) and RE transition. To this end, the study builds a multidimensional taxonomy of RE spatial relations in borderlands. It then suggests competing relationships between the physical, political, and regulatory conditions prevailing in borderlands and the choice of RE spatial relations in borderlands. It concludes by proposing a research agenda that addresses the reciprocal interaction between border studies and the energy transition.

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边境地区在能源转型中的作用：建立理论框架


学者们尚未对可再生能源（RE）与政治边界动态之间的相互关系给予足够的关注。这种监督令人惊讶，因为有具体的例子表明可再生能源项目是如何战略性地选址为政治边界的一部分、靠近、跨越甚至远离政治边界的。本研究断言，可再生能源边境地点的选择受到边境地区普遍条件相互作用的影响。因此，它试图为寻找民族国家边缘接触区条件与可再生能源转型之间的因果关系建立理论基础。为此，本研究建立了边境地区可再生能源空间关系的多维分类。然后，它提出了边境地区普遍存在的自然、政治和监管条件与边境地区可再生能源空间关系的选择之间的竞争关系。最后提出了一项研究议程，解决边界研究与能源转型之间的相互作用。