Depoliticising energy policy: transformative ideas won’t happen when technocrats are in charge

Political economy and public policy scholars have argued that UK governance has been increasingly depoliticised through the displacement of responsibility to market actors; the creation of ‘arms length’ bodies; and the power of experts to make decisions that have wide ranging implications. Here, Caroline Kuzemko argues that technocratic energy policymaking hinders the sorely needed pursuit of transformative energy policy.