Umwelt- und sozialverträglicher Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien

Krug, Michael

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“…Vor dem Hintergrund, dass die Energiewende in Deutschland erst am Anfang steht 4 und die Konflikte voraussichtlich zunehmen werden, gewinnt die Frage nach den Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten dieses Transformationsprozesses -sowohl durch Bürger*innen im Allgemeinen, als auch Energiegenossenschaften im Besonderen -an Bedeutung: Zum einen entstehen durch den dezentralen Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien verstärkt Nutzungs-und Naturschutzkonflikte, für die geeignete Mechanismen zur Konfliktlösung gefunden werden müssen (Bauriedl 2016;Klagge 2013). Zum anderen haben die Debatten über eine Begrenzung der Stromkosten gezeigt, dass die "Gewinner" und "Verlierer" der Energiewende sehr ungleich verteilt sind und deswegen eine sozialverträgliche Gestaltung der Transformation an Dringlichkeit gewinnt (Krug 2014;Moss et al 2013;…”

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Energy cooperatives in Germany – an example of successful alternative economies?

Klagge

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2018

Local Environment

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Because of their democratic governance and value-driven approach cooperatives are often regarded as a prime example for alternative economies and contributing to (more) equitable economic development. Furthermore, they theoretically combine production and consumption and are often regionally-oriented. The recent boom of German renewable-energy cooperatives provides an interesting example of how cooperatives can also make an important contribution to sustainable development, here the German energy transition, and its social acceptance. The paper will first show how a specific regulatory environment supported this development and then analyse how German energy cooperatives cope with legal changes leading to less favourable institutional conditions. Based on a comprehensive survey, we examine whether they can, apart from their legal form, be regarded as alternative economies. Our analysis is guided by a set of criteria derived from Gibson-Graham's diverse-economies framework, including voluntary and paid work, (origin of) borrowed capital, size and structure of membership, business goals and strategies, especially after the legal changes, as well as regional orientation. We will show how different categories of German energy cooperatives differ with regard to their business models, alternative-economy characteristics and coping strategies. The future development of energy cooperatives in Germany will very likely be as diverse as their recent history, thus illustrating the diversity of alternative-economy organisations as stipulated by Gibson-Graham. Most of them, however, deal with the new regulatory environment pro-actively and are developing business models, which are independent from public support and might lead to new cooperative strategies at the shifting interfaces between state, market and civil society.

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Energy cooperatives in Germany – an example of successful alternative economies?

Klagge

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2018

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“…Germany is currently undergoing a profound process of change in its energy system, a change that has been particularly characterised by the extraordinary growth of renewables and the phase out of nuclear power plants (Brunnengräber and Di Nucci, 2014;Lauber and Jacobsson, 2015;Morris and Jungjohann, 2016). Implementation of local energy projects has played an important role in this transformation, yet this process is faced with environmental and social conflicts (Krug, 2014). Large energy and infrastructure projects not only lack broad support, they also provoke considerable local opposition.…”

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Conditions Enhancing the Socially Inclusive and Environmentally Sound Uptake of Wind Energy : The Case of Germany

Nucci¹,

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2018

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This paper discusses the framework conditions to promote the socially inclusive and environmentally sound uptake of renewable energy with a special focus on wind power in Germany and on the policy framework of the European Union (EU). The analysis of these aspects relates to the achievement of one of the Sustainable Development Goals, namely SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy). Wind power plays an important role for mastering the energy transition, but in many countries of the EU, wind energy has become a subject of contested debates. Besides geographic, market, policy, and other factors which affect the implementation of wind energy projects, low levels of market deployment can also be attributed to a diminishing social acceptance and growing local opposition. This is mostly due to the visual impact, noise annoyance, public perception of health risks, local environmental disruption harming local fauna and flora, potentially negative impact on recreation and tourism, or land and real property values as well as to perceived procedural or distributional injustice including affordability of electricity prices, and insufficient public participation. The paper provides insights from an ongoing research project supported by the European Commission under the research programme Horizon 2020. The WinWind Project identifies similarities and differences between regions in five EU countries and in Norway highlighting barriers and drivers for the uptake of wind energy. The paper analyses the European and the German policy frameworks, social acceptance barriers and drivers in two regions of East Germany, and describes promising approaches that drive social acceptance and enhance the environmentally sound uptake of wind energy projects.

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Introduction: Community Energy and Democracy

Radtke

2023

Community Energy in Germany

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Umwelt- und sozialverträglicher Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien

Cited by 5 publications

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Energy cooperatives in Germany – an example of successful alternative economies?

Energy cooperatives in Germany – an example of successful alternative economies?

Conditions Enhancing the Socially Inclusive and Environmentally Sound Uptake of Wind Energy : The Case of Germany

Introduction: Community Energy and Democracy

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