“…--implementation choices: energy technology, favouring either centralized or inversely decentralized energy production and consumption, and preferred scale of action (industrial park or dense urban area, for example), --role of the EPCI structure in the process: regulator and arbitrator among proposed projects from the private sector, promoter of action suggested by private entities in the territory, or planning authority, --partnership and mode of interaction with forces in the territory -citizen initiatives, small businesses or large enterprises, public partners who provide guarantees for collaboration -and the influence of interest groups regarding specific energy resources, i.e., hydropower 42 , nuclear energy 43 , fossil fuels 44 , and the intervention of citizen activist groups 45 . This last aspect has been abundantly covered in the literature.…”