%0 Thesis %9 Master %A Vos, A.T. %D 2020 %F theses_frw:463 %T Changing governance and the Dutch energy transition %U https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/463/ %X This study sketches the playfield of the development of solar fields in the province of Groningen. Within the turn from ‘government to governance’, this study provides empirical insights in the benefits and constraints of this turn and parallel related trends as; New Public Management, privatization, decentralization and the use of Market-Based instruments. By using a ‘governance spectrum’, a degree of self-governance is determined, based on empirical input of semi-structured interviews with regional- and local governments, solar field developers and adjacent citizens of a solar field.