Mobilising community action towards a low-carbon future: Opportunities and challenges for local government in the UK

Peters, Michael; Fudge, Shane; Sinclair, Philip

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2010.01.044

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“…The role of local government in promoting community engagement in energy transition has been emphasized and recognized by the central government in the UK [49,50]. Unlike in the UK, Denmark, and Germany [19,51], the role of local governments is very limited in South Korea.…”

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

confidence: 99%

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

Kim

2017

Sustainability

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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 It analyzes municipal documents, including unpublished materials from municipal meetings, in order to examine how the Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) created enabling conditions for promoting community energy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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Section: The Role Of the Municipal Government In Creating Enabling Comentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Kim

2017

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“…On a process level, CORE (2003) states that "[p]articipation of rural people in the designing, planning, implementation and operations of rural development programs is crucial in order to ensure the sustainability of such programs". Peters et al (2010) confirm that locally conceived projects could overcome barriers that would otherwise arise, while Hossein Mondal et al (2010) state that involving local stakeholders will facilitate RET diffusion. Involving the community from the conception stage thus reduces the 'not invented here syndrome' and improves acceptance of new technologies.…”

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confidence: 90%

An integrated framework for rural electrification: Adopting a user-centric approach to business model development

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Rural electrification (RE) has gained prominence over the past two decades as an effective means for improving living conditions. This growth has largely been driven by socio-economic and political imperatives to improve rural livelihood and by technological innovation. Based on a content analysis of 232 scholarly articles, the literature is categorized into four focal lenses: technology, institutional, viability and user-centric. We find that the first two dominate the RE debate. The viability lens has been used less frequently, whilst the user-centric lens began to engage scholars as late as 2007. We provide an overview of the technological, institutional and viability lenses, and elaborate upon the user-centric lens in greater detail. For energy policy and practice, we combine the four lenses to develop a business model framework that policy makers, practitioners and investors could use to assess RE projects or to design future rural electrification strategies.

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“…Over the previous decade, community action has been identified as an essential strategy in tackling climate change has informed academic inquiry, government policy, and grassroots action [19]. Mulugetta, Jackson, and Van Der Horst [20] suggest that technology provides a crucial impact on solving the climate challenge, but the importance of local and community level plans as channels for altering the society-energy relations should not be discounted.…”

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Energy Information Augmented Community-Based Energy Reduction

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More than one-half of all U.S. states have instituted energy efficiency mandates requiring utilities to reduce energy use. To achieve these goals, utilities have been permitted rate structures to help them incentivize energy reduction projects. This strategy is proving to be only modestly successful in stemming energy consumption growth. By the same token, community energy reduction programs have achieved moderate to very significant energy reduction. The research described here offers an important tool to strengthen the community energy reduction efforts-by providing such efforts energy information tailored to the energy use patterns of each building occupant. The information provided most importantly helps each individual energy customer understand their potential for energy savings and what reduction measures are most important to them. This information can be leveraged by the leading community organization to prompt greater action in its community. A number of case studies of this model are shown. Early results are promising. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2012, 4 1372

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Mobilising community action towards a low-carbon future: Opportunities and challenges for local government in the UK

Cited by 77 publications

References 8 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 integrated framework for rural electrification: Adopting a user-centric approach to business model development

Energy Information Augmented Community-Based Energy Reduction

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