Community–private sector partnerships in renewable energy

Eitan, Avri; Herman, Lior; Fischhendler, Itay; Rosen, Gillad

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2018.12.058

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“…However, in this case we witnessed the absence of a strong 'NIMBY' ("not in my backyard") sentiment and mobilisation amongst residents of neighbouring villages, which is a known fail factor of LEI (e.g. Eitan et al 2019). This has also contributed to the success of the initiative.…”

Section: Sustainable Place Shapingmentioning

confidence: 79%

The role of local energy initiatives in co-producing sustainable places

Silva

Horlings

2019

Sustain Sci

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During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the introduction of policies that promote renewable energy in Western European countries facilitated a shift towards the production of cleaner energy and its decentralisation. Subsidies, incentive schemes, and declining installation costs-combined with rapid technology advances-made the investment in small-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) panels and wind turbines more attractive for individuals and small businesses. Simultaneously, we observe the emergence of citizen initiatives which aim to provide public services across various sectors, including renewable energy generation and distribution. These initiatives, started by citizens, often involve the participation of local residents and prioritise social and environmental goals. In some areas, governments and engaged citizens work together to achieve common goals through citizen-government co-production. In this article, we address the question: how can the co-production of government(s) and citizens, through local energy initiatives, contribute to the shaping of more sustainable places? Using the PlaCI model-a conceptual model of citizen initiatives and their role in shaping sustainable places-we conduct an analysis of WindpowerNijmegen, a citizen-led renewable energy cooperative in the Netherlands. We assess who the relevant stakeholders are, what are the enabling conditions for fruitful collaboration, which new arrangements are established, and how they contribute to shaping more sustainable places. The results indicate that local energy initiatives are place based, conditioned by the characteristics of the physical space needed for the production of renewable energy, specific institutional arrangements, place-based assets and people's capacities characteristic for the place, and past collaboration.

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Section: Sustainable Place Shapingmentioning

confidence: 79%

The role of local energy initiatives in co-producing sustainable places

Silva

Horlings

2019

Sustain Sci

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“…Many evidences found from our search confirm that the RE will positively impact the innovation, industry, and infrastructure (SDG 9). Moreover, concerning SDG 17, the RE may help in achieving some targets within this goal, such as strengthening domestic resource mobilization as RE diversity of sources began to widespread application, including developing countries 63 , thereby offering a new policy of taxes with respect RE technology to encourage investment by citizens/individual or companies, and many organizations have established many RE projects, such as PV power plant for rural and remote areas in the developing countries 64 , improving the global partnership for sustainable development as the RE sector witnessed global collaboration in term of research, financial support, and economic aspect 65 .…”

Section: Re Utilization and Economic Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of Renewable Energy Utilization and Artificial Intelligence in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals

Hannan

Al-Shetwi

Begum

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Many countries around the world are planning to reach 100% renewable energy (RE) use by 2050. In this context and due to the recent sharp increase in RE utilization in the global energy mix along with its progressive impact on the world energy sector, the evaluation and investigation of its effect on achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) are not covered sufficiently. Here, we present an assessment of the emerging role of RE utilization and artificial intelligence (AI) toward achieving SDGs. A total of 17 SDGs were divided into three groups, namely, environment, society, and economy, as per the three key pillars of sustainable development. The RE has a positive impact toward achieving 75 targets across all SDGs by using an expert elicitation method-based consensus. However, it may negatively affect the accomplishment of the 27 targets. In addition, the AI can help the RE to enable the attainment of 42 out of 169 targets. With the current exponential growth of RE share and AI development together with addressing certain present limitations, this impact may cover additional targets in the future. Nevertheless, the present research foci neglect significant facets. The exponential growth of RE share and rapid evolution of AI need to be accompanied through the requisite regulatory insight and technology regulation to cover additional targets in the future.

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“…For instance, multiple studies stress the misfit between top-down agricultural policies, such as the EU Common Agricultural Policy, and the local realities of farmers and farming landscapes, leading for example to distorted incentives for unsustainable practices, or the disregard of ecological matters, ecosystem health, or biodiversity (see, e.g., Leventon et al 2017;Bergsten et al 2019). In the energy sector, major challenges of fit have emerged through the reorganization of energy systems due to the expansion of renewables and the related shifts from centralized production toward more decentralized structures (Eitan et al 2019), which may provide considerable benefits locally, but run counter to the requirements of large-scale energy networks (McKenna 2018).…”

Section: Scalar Fitmentioning

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Scale-related governance challenges in the water–energy–food nexus: toward a diagnostic approach

et al. 2020

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The notion of a water–energy–food (WEF) nexus was introduced to encourage a more holistic perspective on the sustainable development of natural resources. Most attention has been directed at identifying potential synergies and trade-offs among sectors that could be addressed with improved technologies and management. The governance of the WEF nexus more broadly has received comparatively little attention, and the importance of scale in space and time has been largely ignored. Inspired by scholarship on multi-level governance in individual sectors, this paper identifies four scale-related governance challenges in the WEF nexus, namely: (1) scalar fit, which arises when planning and operating procedures work at different levels along the scales of space and time in different sectors; (2) scalar strategies, wherever the levels at which actors have influence and in which action takes place are contested and negotiated; (3) institutional interplay, where rules and norms in different sectors influence each other at different levels; (4) scalar uncertainty, arising out of the complexity of multi-level and multi-scale interactions. The relevance of these four challenges is illustrated with case studies from developed and developing countries. These examples show the importance of considering multiple levels and scales when assessing the likely effectiveness of WEF nexus governance mechanisms or proposals. The cases underline the need to pay close attention to issues of power, contestation, and negotiation, in addition to the analysis of institutional design. Thus, this paper recommends that nexus governance efforts and proposals be scrutinized for scale assumptions. The four identified challenges offer a suitable starting point for diagnosis.

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Community–private sector partnerships in renewable energy

Cited by 49 publications

References 85 publications

The role of local energy initiatives in co-producing sustainable places

The role of local energy initiatives in co-producing sustainable places

Impact of Renewable Energy Utilization and Artificial Intelligence in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals

Scale-related governance challenges in the water–energy–food nexus: toward a diagnostic approach

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