Community-based renewable energy in the Lake District National Park – local drivers, enablers, barriers and solutions

Allen, Joshua J.; Sheate, William R.; Díaz‐Chavez, Rocío

doi:10.1080/13549839.2012.665855

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“…Various studies have highlighted the importance of practical capacities such as time, financing, skills and expertise for the development of LLCEIs [18,31]. In terms of skills, authors have noticed the importance of management and communication skills (e.g., bringing people together, using existing networks and creating new ones, and dealing with external bodies), as well as skills in accountancy and writing funding applications [4,26,28,[32][33][34].…”

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“…In terms of skills, authors have noticed the importance of management and communication skills (e.g., bringing people together, using existing networks and creating new ones, and dealing with external bodies), as well as skills in accountancy and writing funding applications [4,26,28,[32][33][34]. In addition, several studies point to the important role of local or tacit knowledge in the realization of community energy projects [4,31,33,35,36], as well as the prominent role of technical knowledge regarding low-carbon energy solutions [24,27,[36][37][38][39]. Moreover, scholars have underscored the importance of social networks to provide access to resources for LLCEIs and build their capacity [26][27][28]33,35,[40][41][42][43][44][45].…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Role of Intermediaries in Supporting Local Low-Carbon Energy Initiatives

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Recent scholarly attention shows that grassroots civil society low-carbon energy initiatives increasingly become part of the subnational climate change governance landscape. Despite their potency in view of consumer-owned distributed generation and enhanced citizen influence in the organization of the energy infrastructure, local low-carbon energy initiatives (LLCEIs) struggle to become viable alternatives to the centralized, private oriented energy system. To further LLCEI development, support needs to build their capacities; alleviate institutional hurdles and barriers stemming from the fossil fuel-based energy regime; and open up the system for the uptake, acceptance or breakthrough of LLCEIs. Evidence suggests that so-called "intermediaries" form a part of the solution in addressing these issues. Despite previous attempts at analyzing intermediary roles and activities vis-à-vis the development of community energy, the reality of the various roles and strategies intermediaries can employ and the support LLCEIs require to further develop have not yet been synthesized in a comprehensive analytical framework. This article aims to fill this gap by developing such a framework. We reflect on the analytical framework by evaluating the intermediary support structure in a specific case: the Province of Fryslân. From the analysis, we conclude that the Frisian case provided modest support to the claim that intermediary support is effective in addressing the needs of LLCEIs as the strategies and roles observed represent a complete and coherent support structure.

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The Role of Intermediaries in Supporting Local Low-Carbon Energy Initiatives

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“…Although many studies have addressed the conditions the hamper or enable the development of LEIs-e.g., [10,[18][19][20][21][22][23]-less attention has been paid to how to increase the influence of these initiatives on wider energy systems [24]. It is important therefore to try to link the grassroots innovations literature to a literature that focuses on understanding low carbon energy transitions.…”

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Local Governments Supporting Local Energy Initiatives: Lessons from the Best Practices of Saerbeck (Germany) and Lochem (The Netherlands)

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Abstract:The social dimension of the transition to a low carbon economy is a key challenge to cities. The establishment of local energy initiatives (LEIs) has recently been attracting attention. It is of great importance to draw lessons from best practices when LEIs have been facilitated by local governments and made a substantial contribution to greening local energy systems. The main research questions in this paper are: What lessons can be drawn from successful local low carbon energy transition cases, and which strategies proved successful to support LEIs? We have used analytical notions from the Strategic Niche Management (SNM) and grassroots innovation literature to analyze two best-practice cases: Saerbeck (Germany) and Lochem (The Netherlands). Data collection involved a set of fourteen in-depth interviews and secondary data. The results show that three key factors from SNM (building networks, managing expectations, and facilitation of learning) are of great importance. However, to a great degree it is also strategic, community serving, responsive, reflexive leadership and proper process management by public officials that spurred success, which would not have been possible without close OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 1901 interaction and mutual trust between local government and representatives of the local communities.

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“…The research methodology is consistent with that undertaken by Allen et al [19], who researched the drivers, enablers, barriers and solutions to community renewable energy projects. In order to gain an understanding of perceptions of the development of socio-political, market and community acceptance of renewable energy, stakeholders with socio-political (government and public sector), market (renewable energy industry, network operator and renewable energy advocate), and community-based experiences were interviewed.…”

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Solar power and policy powerlessness − perceptions of persuasion in distributed residential solar energy policy development

Simpson

2017

Renew. Energy Environ. Sustain.

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Abstract. Distributed residential solar energy (photovoltaic) technologies have been praised as a mechanism to not only increase the penetration of renewable energy but engage the community in a clean energy revolution. In spite of this it is unclear how much potential there is for stakeholders to influence processes around the adoption of solar energy, including policy development and regulation. As part of a wider research project assessing the social acceptance of residential solar energy in Western Australia a variety of stakeholders, including public servants, network operators, Members of Parliament, energy advocates, renewable energy industry members and community members, were asked whether they thought they had the potential to influence solar policy. The objective of this research was to highlight positions of influence over policy development. In total 23 interviews with regional Western Australian householders and 32 interviews with members of industry and government were undertaken between May and October 2015. Most respondents believed that they had previously, or could in future, influence solar policy by taking advantage of networks of influence. However, stakeholders perceived as having policy influence did not necessarily demonstrate the capacity to influence policy beyond providing information to decision-makers, namely Cabinet members. Instead, networks of renewable energy advocates, industry and community members could apply political pressure through petitions, media coverage and liaising with parliamentarians to develop support for policy changes. Furthermore, while policies for the promotion of solar energy, and renewable energy more generally, could be implemented at various levels of government, only those policies delivered at the state level could address socio-political barriers to renewable energy adoption. These barriers include: a lack of political will and funding to overcome technical issues with network connection; reductions in fossil fuel subsidies to encourage an "even playing field"; and removal of regulatory barriers for innovative renewable energy solutions.

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Community-based renewable energy in the Lake District National Park – local drivers, enablers, barriers and solutions

Cited by 57 publications

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The Role of Intermediaries in Supporting Local Low-Carbon Energy Initiatives

The Role of Intermediaries in Supporting Local Low-Carbon Energy Initiatives

Local Governments Supporting Local Energy Initiatives: Lessons from the Best Practices of Saerbeck (Germany) and Lochem (The Netherlands)

Solar power and policy powerlessness − perceptions of persuasion in distributed residential solar energy policy development

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