Co-production in the wind energy sector: A systematic literature review of public engagement beyond invited stakeholder participation

Solman, Helena; Smits, M.C.J.; Vliet, B.J.M. van; Bush, Simon R.

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2020.101876

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“…To review the evidence on this topic, there are some essential principles that are common in the process of writing systematic and critical reviews [47,48]. These reviews aim for comprehensiveness, while reducing bias regarding literature searches [47]; and, they are being increasingly used in the field of energy social science [24,[49][50][51]. The review process pursued the following steps.…”

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Fostering Human Wellbeing in Africa through Solar Home Systems: A Systematic and a Critical Review

Ojöng

2022

Sustainability

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Solar home systems are being increasingly used for energy access in Africa, and claims have been made about their ability to enhance human wellbeing. Therefore, this paper systematically and critically assesses the human wellbeing effects of these systems in Africa. According to the systematic review, these small-scale renewable energy systems have positive effects in terms of education, health, safety and security, entertainment, and social connectedness. In the realms of income and firm productivity, the results were mixed, with some studies showing that the adoption of solar home systems contributed to increases in income and firm productivity, and others finding little or no evidence to support this view. However, a critical review indicates that some of the positive effects are often based on self-reporting, and rigorous evidence regarding the nature and the magnitude of the wellbeing effects of these systems is currently scarce and at times inconclusive. These systems will continue to play a role in Africa’s energy landscape in the foreseeable future due to limited access to and uncertainties related to centralised grid electrification for a significant segment of the population; but, based on the weak evidence base, we are daydreaming if we think that solar home systems can improve human wellbeing in a significant way due to their low energy-generation capacity. Accordingly, future research opportunities are suggested, which could help to address some of the shortcomings in the evidence base.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fostering Human Wellbeing in Africa through Solar Home Systems: A Systematic and a Critical Review

Ojöng

2022

Sustainability

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“…Stakeholder engagement in the energy sector can take different forms. Currently, these include intervention by non-profit and community organizations in regulatory proceedings, public comments on infrastructure siting decisions, and technical advisory groups established by regulators on specific topics (Baldwin et al 2018, Solman et al 2021. A full review of stakeholder engagement practices is out-of-scope here, but this topic deserves additional attention in the context of questions about procedural and distributional equity that have been documented by other researchers in infrastructure planning efforts (Sovacool et al 2016, Heffron and McCauley 2017, Fletcher et al 2022.…”

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Climate-aware decision-making: lessons for electric grid infrastructure planning and operations

Brockway

Wang

Dunn³

et al. 2022

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Climate change poses signiﬁcant risks to large-scale infrastructure systems and brings considerable uncertainties that challenge historical planning approaches. Here we focus on how climate awareness might be better incorporated into planning and decision-making in the electric power sector. To do so, we consider lessons from decision science literature where researchers have speciﬁcally focused on how to make better decisions under uncertainty. We perform a three-part review: of decision science literature on best practices for decision-making under uncertainty, of industry practice documents to understand how new uncertainties may aﬀect the types of decisions electric utilities are making today, and of literature on electricity sector planning under climate change to assess how lessons from decision science might ﬁt into sector-speciﬁc analyses. We discuss how characterizations of uncertainty from the decision science literature might guide approaches in the electricity sector to appropriately capture climate-related uncertainties. We also distill three key ideas from the decision science literature that can be incorporated into electricity sector planning to manage these new uncertainties: robustness, adaptive planning, and multi-stakeholder engagement. We oﬀer example recommendations for how these key ideas might be incorporated into one essential type of planning activity, capacity expansion.

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“…From the discussion above, the main issue hindering wind energy technology transfer amongst EU member states, and from EU members to other nations outside the EU, is intellectual property transfer with a focus on who should bear the cost associated with sharing the technology [142,143]. Developed nations are unwilling to share their wind energy technologies because they feel that it is not in their best interest with regards to innovation.…”

Section: Technology Transfer and Ipr Challengesmentioning

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Managing Technology Transfer Challenges in the Renewable Energy Sector within the European Union

Kulkarni

Wang

Venetsanos

2022

Wind

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The use of fossil fuels to generate energy is often associated with serious negative effects on the environment. The greenhouse gas emissions resulting from burning these fuels destroy the ozone layer and lead to global warming. As a strategic approach to the solution of this problem, calls for research and development, as well as the implementation of technologies associated with renewable energy sources within the European Union (EU), have intensified in recent years. One of the keys to a successful outcome from this intensified effort is to identify the challenges associated with the transfer of both intellectual property and technology rights in the renewable energy sector within the EU. The present paper contributes towards this direction. Firstly, data from the literature were used to identify contemporary trends within the European Union with regards to technology transfer and intellectual property within the sector of renewable energy. Then, a statistical analysis utilising an ordinary least squares (OLS) model was conducted to establish a correlation between renewable energy innovations (research and development) and the level of investment associated with renewable energy technologies. Finally, this correlation, along with the associated challenges, was then critically explored for four of the most popular renewable energy sources (namely solar energy, biomass, wind energy, and marine renewable energy), and conclusions are reported.

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Co-production in the wind energy sector: A systematic literature review of public engagement beyond invited stakeholder participation

Cited by 61 publications

References 121 publications

Fostering Human Wellbeing in Africa through Solar Home Systems: A Systematic and a Critical Review

Fostering Human Wellbeing in Africa through Solar Home Systems: A Systematic and a Critical Review

Climate-aware decision-making: lessons for electric grid infrastructure planning and operations

Managing Technology Transfer Challenges in the Renewable Energy Sector within the European Union

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