Community Heroes and Sleeping Members: Interdependency of the Tenets of Energy Justice

Astola, Mandi; Laes, Erik; Bombaerts, Gunter; Ryszawska, Bożena; Rozwadowska, Magdalena; Szymański, P.; Ruess, Anja; Nyborg, Sophie; Hansen, Meiken

doi:10.1007/s11948-022-00384-3

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“…Hansen and Hauge, 2017, Christensen et al 2017, Nyborg 2015, questions as to how communities organise and negotiate this role collectively are important future research topics (e.g. Astola et al, 2022). Likewise, questions of energy community mobilisation, and how to balance community and system needs, merit further attention.…”

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Grand Challenges in Social Aspects of Wind Energy Development

Kitzing,

Rudolph,

Nyborg

et al. 2024

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Abstract. Social aspects are gaining traction in wind energy research. Increasing local opposition to wind energy projects is just one symptom of deeper-rooted challenges in the further expansion of the technology. A recent publication by Kirkegaard et al. (2023a) lays out the grand challenges related to the complex interactions between society and wind energy technology and outlines a research agenda for wind energy research from a socio-technical perspective. This article discusses these challenges in the context of a more technologically focused research audience. We begin by describing the role of social sciences in wind energy research, arguing for the diverse set of insights, research topics, and value that they can add, going beyond outdated concepts of social acceptance (such as NIMBY), and providing solutions for public engagement and planning processes, just ownership structures and value-based design. We discuss social grand challenges in five areas: (1) Project planning & spatial relations, (2) Wind turbine design & scalability, (3) Grid integration, roles & responsibilities, (4) General public perception of the technology, (5) Energy policy to support system transformation. We conclude by reflecting how social sciences and technical sciences can be better integrated to jointly advance wind energy research into a new interdisciplinary era that is able to provide holistic solutions for a transition to carbon-neutrality.

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Section: Grid Integration Roles and Responsibilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Grand Challenges in Social Aspects of Wind Energy Development

Kitzing,

Rudolph,

Nyborg

et al. 2024

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“…The nature of morality is, therefore, not to consider specific risk issues but to pose problems of risk itself (e.g. Luhmann, 1987, p. 97; Astola et al ., 2022a, b; Dameski et al ., 2022; Martin et al ., 2023; Miller, 2022).…”

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Relational positionism: a constructive interpretation of morality in Luhmann's social systems theory

Bombaerts

2023

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Purpose The purpose of this article is to summarize three Luhmannian critiques on morality, illustrate new roles for morality and add constructive interpretations.Design/methodology/approach Luhmann has recently been described as downright negative toward morality, resulting in a refusal to use ethics as a sociologist, thus leading to a limited use of his theory in moral issues. A constructive interpretation could support a more functional use of morality in social system theory.Findings First, Luhmann signals that morality can no longer fulfill its integrative function in society but also that society has recourse to moral sensitivity. Second, Luhmann describes how anxiety is crucial in modern morality and indicates which role risk and danger could play. The author builds further on this and proposes the concept of “social system attention” that can provide answers to individual and organizational anxiety. The author proposes that institutionalized socialization can support an integrative morality. Third, Luhmann states that ethics today is nothing more than a utopia but also that the interdiction of moral self-exemption is an essential element. The author adds that a relational ontology for social systems theory can avoid ethics as utopia.Practical implicationsThis article is a programmatic plea to further elaborate morality from a system theory perspective in which meaning is relationally positioned.Originality/value This article could potentially provide a more functional application of morality in social systems, thus leading to improvements of attempts of ethical decision-making. The originality of the approach lies in the interpretation of basic assumptions of Luhmann social system theory that are not core to his theory.

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“…These four tenets overlap and their relevance or importance to VPPs varies with which use cases are prioritized, which DERs are included, and other business decisions, such as how a VPP is financed. Table 1 in this paper offers a mapping of energy justice tenets to various VPP use cases [6]. Using the four tenets of energy justice to frame our discussions, we:…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To understand how VPPs create value, we reviewed industry reports and analyzed over 40 current and past VPP projects and pilot programs, focusing on examples in the US. Several industry reports were particularly relevant in guiding our understanding of the current VPP space as captured in Section 2 of this paper [1], [2], [3], [4], [6], [7]. Additional literature and examples inform the discussion of use cases and barriers to VPP adoption in Sections 3 and 4.…”

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“…At the federal level in the United States, there is increased support for EJ initiatives, with the federal Justice40 Initiative requiring 40% of energy transition investments to directly benefit "marginalized, underserved, and overburdened" communities. 6,7 In this paper, we use a literature review of industry reports, energy justice, and examples of over 40 current and past VPP projects (focused on the US) to provide background information on VPPs, discuss the VPP business model space, evaluate use cases of VPPs, and evaluate adoption in underserved communities. This paper is limited in that it does not look at the accessibility of VPPs for specific income groups, nor does it analyze the accessibility of adopting specific DER technologies in underserved communities.…”

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Virtual Power Plants and Energy Justice

Speetles,

Lockhart,

Warren

2023

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Throughout the paper, we use the term "underserved communities" to refer to communities that have limited access to resources and opportunities. This disproportionately refers to communities with high Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) populations, low-income populations, populations that face persistent levels of poverty, and other vulnerable, historically disenfranchised, or persistently marginalized groups. In our literature review, we use the terms "low-income" and "disadvantaged" where they are appropriate to describe a particular study's methods.

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Community Heroes and Sleeping Members: Interdependency of the Tenets of Energy Justice

Cited by 15 publications

References 36 publications

Grand Challenges in Social Aspects of Wind Energy Development

Grand Challenges in Social Aspects of Wind Energy Development

Relational positionism: a constructive interpretation of morality in Luhmann's social systems theory

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