Distributing power: Community energy movements claiming the grid in Berlin and Hamburg

Pohlmann, Angela Raffin; Colell, Arwen

doi:10.1016/j.jup.2020.101066

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“…However, the European Union provides a variety of platforms and funding sources to support initiatives aimed at building smart cities using renewable energy [19]. Thus, Hamburg has successfully leveraged these platforms and sources not only to introduce renewable energy, but also to gain a reputation as a European hub for researchers and companies working in the renewable energy sector [20,21]. All these smart cities are faced with the challenge of transforming existing infrastructure and systems in order to improve their efficiency and increase the share of renewable energy in the overall energy balance.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Technological Solutions for Renewable Energy (Automation, Blockchain, and Smart Cities)

Tarasova¹,

Sutyrina²,

Krayneva³

2021

Proceedings of the Second Conference on Sustainable Development: Industrial Future of Territories (IFT 2021)

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A number of countries are projecting to ratify the idea of smart city in their towns and accomplish big data projects to bolster smart city features to target the desired level of sustainable development, thus improving the quality of life. The smart cities are meant to be areas with advanced technologies that are capable to comprehend the environment by scrutinizing the data so to make it more sustainable. In such cities various sensors will be gathering massive of data to learn critical measurements to control resources, services and infrastructure effectively. Numerous innovations, such as automation and blockchain will serve to increase the efficiency of its residents ways of travelling, educating, spending resources, thus resulting in higher level of comfort. This paper presents a comprehensive overview of the technological solutions and how those can be employed for smarter green energy use.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Technological Solutions for Renewable Energy (Automation, Blockchain, and Smart Cities)

Tarasova¹,

Sutyrina²,

Krayneva³

2021

Proceedings of the Second Conference on Sustainable Development: Industrial Future of Territories (IFT 2021)

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“…It is important to see the connection of this new trend with a major portion of the actors of the early Energiewende, i.e., rural households and small businesses as producers and consumers of RE, especially solar power [67]. In urban expansion, urban residents, mostly tenants and landlords, started to join the ranks of solar prosumers or "prosumagers" [68], i.e., grid-connected producer and consumer of renewable energy with energy storage, and the members of environmental and climate protection groups are no longer only sociopolitical actors but have also become environmental, economic, and technological actors of Energiewende [69] and are increasingly making it an urban community energy movement [70]. Different from community energy projects in the United States, where the power utilities or third-party providers sell "shares" to local consumers, the German community energy initiatives are driven by the feed-in tariff (FIT) incentivized, homeowner and community solar power projects [71].…”

Section: Urban Socioeconomic Political and Environmental Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban expansion of Energiewende in Germany: a systematic bibliometric analysis and literature study

Yang

2022

Energ Sustain Soc

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Background Despite Germany’s world leadership of Energiewende, there have been mounting challenges, such as the slowdown of German renewable energy growth since 2017, when the Merkel administration dramatically changed the German renewable energy promotion policy from feed-in tariffs to competitive auctions. These challenges pose important research questions about whether and how an emerging urban expansion of Energiewende can serve as a vital solution to counteract the challenges to the energy transition. Answering these research questions provides a unique opportunity to explore the academic and historic foundations of the energy transition and its urban expansion, the emerging events that exemplify urban expansion, and the viable solutions this growing trend of urban expansion might be able to provide to the challenges to the German energy transition. Methods This paper conducted visual and manual bibliometric analyses, examined the results of case studies, and reviewed secondary literature and data on urban expansion of German Energiewende. Results By analyzing the bibliometric and investigative results, this paper identified political, socioeconomic, and technological challenges to Energiewende and a new trend of solar energy expansion in German cities aimed at meeting Germany’s carbon neutrality targets by 2045. The new trend of the urban expansion of the German energy transition manifests itself in the focused research efforts on identifying the vast untapped potential on new building rooftop areas in most populous German cities and/or detached and two-family houses in Germany and the recent booming of building-related solar PV and heating mandates in German cities and states, the expanding solar heating and cooling systems, and the government policy support at various levels in this urban expansion through aggressively strengthening climate and renewable energy targets. Conclusions In search for answers to the recent challenges of Energiewende in Germany, this paper conducted both visual and manual bibliometric analyses and applied desk research and reviews of secondary literature and data. This paper found an emerging trend of the urban expansion of Energiewende, including the awareness of the vast potential and gap of urban solarization and the enhanced urban municipal policies, actors, actions, and accomplishments of exploiting this potential. These findings were based on academic knowledge on the German energy transition and contribute to expanding this academic knowledge. To help more effectively exploit the vast potential in solarizing all German cities, especially the largest ones, this study recommends that further research more closely track the progress of this trend and apply more quantitative tools and approaches in future tracking.

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“…Among social legitimacy references within the literature, there are diverse definitions and understandings, based variously around the 'publicness' of planning institutions (Greenwood and Newman 2010; van de Meene, Bettini, and Head 2020), moral responsibility (Grabowski et al 2017), transparency and trust-building over time through participatory processes (Colacino and Hensley 2019;Legacy, Curtis, and Scheurer 2017;Pohlmann and Colell 2020), and integrated cohesiveness across infrastructure plans and policies (Book, Eskilsson, and Khan 2010). Negative public standings may be associated with cynical or tokenistic uses of engagement processes (Bosworth 2018), poor project management and communication (Mottee et al 2020), lack of attendance to sustainability and place (Grant, Beed, and Manuel 2018), or the perception of governments failing to protect citizen rights and equality through facilitating privatisation (Meissner 2021).…”

Section: Social Legitimacy Of Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

A Systematic Literature Review of Infrastructure Governance: Cross-sectoral Lessons for Transformative Governance Approaches

Clements

Alizadeh

Kamruzzaman

et al. 2022

Journal of Planning Literature

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Infrastructure governance has emerged as a subject of critical interest in the current ‘infrastructure turn’ whereby fragmented governance approaches sit in tension with complex demands for infrastructure transformations within contexts of multiple intersecting crises. To understand the state of the literature and inform ongoing debates, a systematic review method is used to interrogate a large body of infrastructure governance literature across sectoral boundaries. This review identifies a range of literature gaps prevailing in the areas of infrastructure governance on unceded First Nations land, the societal end goals of infrastructure, and understandings and applications of integrated governance.

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Distributing power: Community energy movements claiming the grid in Berlin and Hamburg

Cited by 14 publications

References 44 publications

Technological Solutions for Renewable Energy (Automation, Blockchain, and Smart Cities)

Technological Solutions for Renewable Energy (Automation, Blockchain, and Smart Cities)

Urban expansion of Energiewende in Germany: a systematic bibliometric analysis and literature study

A Systematic Literature Review of Infrastructure Governance: Cross-sectoral Lessons for Transformative Governance Approaches

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