Transitioning to Community-owned Renewable Energy: Lessons from Germany

Li, Li Wen; Birmele, Janine; Schaich, Harald; Konold, Werner

doi:10.1016/j.proenv.2013.02.089

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“…The distribution of resources is specifically relevant since the literature reports widely on the role of ownership in the processes and conditions involved in successful LEIs. A sense of community ownership is crucial for the success of community initiatives [41], for it delivers a positive public attitude [53], public support [54][55][56], it fosters social acceptance (or facilitates coping with opposition) [19,38,[57][58][59][60], and enhances motivation [56]. Moreover, actors and networks cover the institutional dimension of the social and institutional rule that determine how interactions and transactions between actors are shaped (cf.…”

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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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Section: Towards An Integrated Framework For Assessing Local Energy Imentioning

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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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“…Concerning the benefits for local communities, Walker and Devine-Wright (2008) concluded that there are different degrees of participation and locally shared benefits in CRE projects, but real community projects are those that have a positive outcome for the local community and that involve high levels of citizen participation. Li et al (2013) and Phimister and Roberts (2012) suggested that CRE schemes bring primarily economic benefits because community-led initiatives increase rural household incomes and welfare by creating economic development. Rogers et al (2008) and Tracey et al (2005) provide more detailed descriptions of benefits.…”

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“…Other research has tried to understand if small-scale RE initiatives can contribute to a significant increase in RE capacity (Hain et al, 2005) or promote capacity building (Walker and Devine-Wright, 2008). Yet another stream of research has investigated how local stakeholders perceive the community benefits presented by wind power developers (Bristow et al, 2012;Cass et al, 2010;Munday et al, 2011) and how in turn they contribute to the economic development of rural areas (Li et al, 2013;Phimister and Roberts, 2012;Rogers et al, 2008;Tracey et al, 2005).…”

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Realizing the social acceptance of community renewable energy: A process-outcome analysis of stakeholder influence

Ruggiero

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Kuittinen

2014

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…Living Labs are also useful for finding out the community needs in order to make the necessary improvements for the regional development and integration of actions of different stakeholders' groups [20].…”

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Stakeholders involvement for energy conscious communities: The Energy Labs experience in 10 European communities

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a b s t r a c tIn the framework of the INTERREG IVC RENERGY project an innovative methodology was devised to exploit stakeholder involvement on energy and environmental decisions at community level and to increase community acceptance. It is based on the "Living Lab" paradigm applied to policy making as a powerful instrument to encourage and coordinate stakeholder engagement. The paper describes the preliminary stakeholder analysis performed and the application of "Energy Lab" concept to eleven different EU communities (Kaunas e LT, Torre Vedras e PT, Potenza e IT, Slagelse e DK, Durham and Sheffield e UK, Tulln e AT, Szentes e Hu, Jaslo e PL and Avrig e RO) with the purpose of identifying gaps and needs at regional level, share the knowledge through the discussion of exemplar case studies, maximize the transfer of good practices for the regional implementation plans and derive effective policy recommendations. The results show that the Energy Labs can give a sound basis for a future dialogue and a long lasting co-operation among the different parties and can be therefore considered an investment in the future at community level. At interregional level the comparison of the experiences among different countries helps to highlight the different motivations and aspirations of the various communities as well as the main common barriers in the implementation of renewable energy and energy efficiency strategies.

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Transitioning to Community-owned Renewable Energy: Lessons from Germany

Cited by 60 publications

References 11 publications

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

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

Realizing the social acceptance of community renewable energy: A process-outcome analysis of stakeholder influence

Stakeholders involvement for energy conscious communities: The Energy Labs experience in 10 European communities

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