Bridging Gaps In Energy Planning for First Nation Communities

Rakshit, Roopa; Shahi, Chander; Smith, Michael; Cornwell, Adam R.

doi:10.1080/10485236.2018.11958658

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“…in the Ontario context (Walker and Baxter, 2017;Rakshit et al, 2018). Concerning the innovation users, our research finds that the ETIS may perpetuate inequities through an under-emphasis on potentially marginalized actors.…”

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Investigating Energy Justice in Demand-Side Low-Carbon Innovations in Ontario

Wyse

Das

Hoicka

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Front. Sustain. Cities

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The diffusion of low-carbon innovations, including innovative products and services, is required to accelerate a low-carbon energy transition. These innovations also have the potential to alleviate and perpetuate existing social inequities, calling into question their “justness.” Energy justice is a useful analytical tool for framing justice questions related to energy. In this paper, we ask whether demand-side low-carbon energy innovations are meeting energy justice criteria. To address this question, this study develops four indicators from existing energy justice frameworks and applies them to a range of demand-side innovations offered to energy users in Ontario. The indicators are used to assess innovation availability, affordability, information, and involvement. Innovations were identified using surveys and desk research across Ontario's energy technology innovation system (ETIS). One hundred twenty-two innovations are analyzed for these four indicators, and according to intended innovation users and innovation providers. Findings suggest that three of the four indicators—availability, affordability and information are broadly being addressed, while involvement was more difficult to establish. However, the ETIS may be perpetuating inequities through an over emphasis of innovations for particular energy users, such as private businesses, alongside under-emphasis on potentially marginalized actors, such as low-income households and renters. Furthermore, government-delivered, publicly owned or regulated innovation providers place a greater emphasis on energy justice, including the provision of innovations for marginalized actors. This study aids our understanding of energy justice in low-carbon energy innovations and is critical given that in the context of funding cuts to public services, there may be an increased reliance on decentralized actors. The consideration of justice gaps that emerge through such decentralization should not be overlooked. Our findings suggest that within Ontario's ETIS, who provides innovations matters. Given the insights presented in this study, this research approach and the developed indicators could be applied to other contexts and socio-technical systems. The application of energy justice indicators, derived from existing scholarship, therefore presents an important opportunity to address current and understudied practical energy challenges.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Investigating Energy Justice in Demand-Side Low-Carbon Innovations in Ontario

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Das

Hoicka

et al. 2021

Front. Sustain. Cities

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“…An important and overlapping theme is ongoing community efforts in rebuilding Indigenous governance institutions for those that are moving towards greater autonomy (where progress is slow, uneven and not uniform (Nikolakis and Nelson 2015)). Understanding how and where, for example, renewable energy projects may fit into nation-building efforts (Rakshit et al 2018) would help strengthen Indigenous involvement and capacity while also supporting them in achieving their aspirations.…”

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Reimagining energy in the Canadian boreal zone: policy needs to facilitate a successful transition to a low-carbon energy future¹

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Canada will be unable to meet its greenhouse gas pledges-of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30% over 2005 levels by 2030-without transitioning away from the current high-carbon economy. This transition will bring new challenges, especially to the Canadian boreal zone. The boreal zone continues to experience intensive natural resource activities including the extraction of forest, mining, oil and gas, and renewable energy products, which in combination with climate change, is placing the future sustainability of the boreal zone at risk. We explored policy options to reduce the risk to the future sustainability of the boreal zone in light of the inevitable energy transition to either a higher or a lower dependence on carbon and the uncertainty of society's capacity to adapt to change. Current policies are putting us on a path towards failure to achieve sustainability of the boreal zone. While current policies may be moving us towards a low-carbon future, they lack a shared vision of what the energy transition will be and engagement by those members of society most impacted; they are top-down, prescriptive, and fragmented, and they lack capacity, accountability, and enforcement. Together these limitations create barriers to society's capacity to adapt to the low-carbon future. Sustainability of the boreal zone will not only require a transition to a low-carbon economy but will require policies that overcome these barriers and create a higher capacity for society to adapt.

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“…In light of these observations, the authors demonstrate that there is a gap in the theory and the practical implications of energy planning (Rakshit et al, 2018). The authors call for greater community involvement in the development of energy planning in order to increase capacity within the communities themselves to better address energy issues (Rakshit et al, 2018). These recommendations align closely to the discussion in the 2017 proceedings of "Renewables in Remote Communities" conference hosted by the Pembina Institute and the Yukon territorial government.…”

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“…There is a recognized difference between the energy challenges facing homes in Indigenous communities in remote locations who may depend on diesel or electricity to meet their space heating needs and the "average" Ontario home ( to identify gaps and provide recommendations to inform more productive community energy planning (Rakshit, Shahi, Smith, & Cornwell, 2018). Their research examined Ontario government support for community energy planning and found that although funding is needed to support energy planning, past approaches to developing community energy plans did little to increase capacity in communities, and instead led to consultant dependency (Rakshit et al, 2018). In light of these observations, the authors demonstrate that there is a gap in the theory and the practical implications of energy planning (Rakshit et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Their research examined Ontario government support for community energy planning and found that although funding is needed to support energy planning, past approaches to developing community energy plans did little to increase capacity in communities, and instead led to consultant dependency (Rakshit et al, 2018). In light of these observations, the authors demonstrate that there is a gap in the theory and the practical implications of energy planning (Rakshit et al, 2018). The authors call for greater community involvement in the development of energy planning in order to increase capacity within the communities themselves to better address energy issues (Rakshit et al, 2018).…”

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Reimagining energy in the Canadian boreal zone: policy needs to facilitate a successful transition to a low-carbon energy future¹

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Bridging Gaps In Energy Planning for First Nation Communities

Cited by 16 publications

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Investigating Energy Justice in Demand-Side Low-Carbon Innovations in Ontario

Investigating Energy Justice in Demand-Side Low-Carbon Innovations in Ontario

Reimagining energy in the Canadian boreal zone: policy needs to facilitate a successful transition to a low-carbon energy future1

Community Energy Preferences and Residential Occupant Behaviour of the MoCreebec Eeyoud

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Reimagining energy in the Canadian boreal zone: policy needs to facilitate a successful transition to a low-carbon energy future¹