Can local government play a greater role for community renewable energy? A case study from Australia

Mey, Franziska; Diesendorf, Mark; MacGill, Iain

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2016.06.019

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“…However, the contextual and structural conditions for community energy initiatives do not provide considerable financial incentives for community action or citizen engagement in Korea. Therefore, higher-level policies and systems are barriers to community energy transition activities, as was also found by Mey et al [51].…”

Section: External Challenges To the Energy Self-reliant Villagesmentioning

confidence: 81%

“…Unlike in the UK, Denmark, and Germany [19,51], the role of local governments is very limited in South Korea. Energy systems and relevant policies are centralized in South Korea, and national energy policies are unsupportive for energy transition [52].…”

Section: The Role Of the Municipal Government In Creating Enabling Comentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In other words, the commitment and interest of elected leaders plays a significant role in promoting community engagement in energy transition. In turn, success is closely related to funding [51]. Therefore, if the mayor was not re-elected and the amount of public engagement in the OLNPP decreased, the continuity of the ESVs would be called into question.…”

Section: External Challenges To the Energy Self-reliant Villagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Community Energy Transition Model for Urban Areas: The Energy Self-Reliant Village Program in Seoul, South Korea

Kim

2017

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While community energy initiatives are on the rise, community actions for energy transition in Asian countries have rarely been studied. While it is difficult for community energy initiatives to develop spontaneously in Seoul, there are some success stories there. This study places these successes in context. It analyzes municipal documents, including unpublished materials from municipal meetings, in order to examine how the Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) created enabling conditions for promoting community energy initiatives. This study also conducted interviews to explore unsolved issues related to the Energy Self-Reliant Village (ESV) program. The SMG encouraged collective action through financial, administrative, and informational support. Also, this study found that Seoul's ESV program fostered communities by raising the sense of locality and responsibility and community spirit through various educational programs. The ESV program supported the continuity of community by providing guidelines that relieved the burden on community members. The SMG played a significant role in promoting community engagement in energy transition by affecting internal and external conditions. This study provides meaningful insights that other municipalities, especially large urban areas, can follow to foster community actions for energy transition.

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confidence: 99%

Section: External Challenges To the Energy Self-reliant Villagesmentioning

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A Community Energy Transition Model for Urban Areas: The Energy Self-Reliant Village Program in Seoul, South Korea

Kim

2017

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“…Other authors ( [11,12,14] stress the importance of local governments for a successful transition to renewable-energy sources. Taking both arguments together, it becomes obvious from the empirical results obtained during the workshops in Enschede that the COLLAGE tool can be an important building block towards a new local energy governance [19], helping to overcome known barriers of community-related social acceptance as identified by Sovacool and Lakshmi Ratan [8].…”

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An Interactive Planning Support Tool for Addressing Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Projects in The Netherlands

Flacke

Boer

2017

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Abstract:The implementation of renewable energy policies is lagging behind in The Netherlands. While several Dutch cities have ambitious goals for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the implementation of renewable energy projects has been rather slow. The main reasons for this are the limited institutional capacities of local decision-makers, low levels of social acceptance of renewable-energy technologies, and limited opportunities for engagement of communities in decision-making processes. In order to address these issues we have developed an interactive planning support tool named COLLAGE for stakeholder participation in local renewable-energy planning. The goal of this paper is to analyze whether the COLLAGE tool helps to increase community engagement in renewable-energy projects and planning by increasing awareness and addressing social learning issues related to renewable-energy options. We tested the tool in a series of workshops with stakeholders and citizens from the city of Enschede, The Netherlands. The workshop results show that the tool helped involve stakeholders and communities in deciding where to locate renewable-energy facilities. It increased community members' awareness of the benefits of and requirements for renewable energy by disclosing the spatial consequences of overall municipal goals. We conclude that the COLLAGE tool can be an important building block towards new local energy governance.

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“…These includes means of financing local authorities and encouraging citizen awareness of local activities in order to foster transparency, accountability and responsiveness of local authorities, and in turn, increased citizen satisfaction with municipal ser-vice and results [20,76]. Within this contextual, there is continue advocacy of enlighten local individuals on local government service delivery and other matters to foster their satisfaction [37,58]. Authors [75] stated that there is amendment in focus transformed the attention towards the refinements of local communities and citizens and the significance of their engagement in local affairs and service assessment.…”

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Evidence of Municipal Awareness as a Construct for Enhancing Citizen Satisfaction in Municipal Council of Malaysia

Bello

Kasim

Razali

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Abstract. This research study critically analysed the existing literature on municipal awareness relevancy of Municipal councils' service delivery for the purpose of enhancing citizen satisfaction. The purpose of the study is the investigation of citizen satisfaction level of municipal services. Analysis of the existing literature on the relationship between municipal awareness and citizen satisfaction. The Material and methods were carried out using secondary data and were meticulously and critically analysed to come up with reliable results. The study shows the relevancy of the public awareness, citizen satisfaction and municipal council performance in Malaysia. It is evident in the research that citizen consent is important before municipal services should be provided in the local community. The research study highlighted many discrepancies in many kinds of literature related to the existing research study, the evidence-based analysis was carried out to buttress importance and significance of the related study to the research work. The literature was reviewed to ascertain the current happening in the area of local government service delivery. The study shows that many municipal councils in Malaysia provide adequate and satisfactory services to their citizens'. The study also revealed that municipal council plays an important role in citizen awareness of municipal service delivery. The study concludes that municipal service delivery can be enhanced through citizen awareness campaign, to sensitise the local community on various aspects of service delivery including maintenance of the facilities provided. The study also concludes that Municipal councils lack awareness section affects their performance in service delivery process. The study recommends that Municipal councils officials need to be consulted the citizen for their needs and wants; awareness campaign needs to be regularly carried out to maintain cordial relationship between Municipal councils and their citizen; it is also recommended that municipal services should be delivered the needed services by the local inhabitants' after duly consultation.

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Can local government play a greater role for community renewable energy? A case study from Australia

Cited by 88 publications

References 50 publications

A Community Energy Transition Model for Urban Areas: The Energy Self-Reliant Village Program in Seoul, South Korea

A Community Energy Transition Model for Urban Areas: The Energy Self-Reliant Village Program in Seoul, South Korea

An Interactive Planning Support Tool for Addressing Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Projects in The Netherlands

Evidence of Municipal Awareness as a Construct for Enhancing Citizen Satisfaction in Municipal Council of Malaysia

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