Proximities of energy justice: contesting community energy and austerity in England

Lacey-Barnacle, Max

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2020.101713

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“…The same category also included (4) the identification of local, regional and best practices; and (5) the development of effective engagement mechanisms to address energy poverty. The second group of criteria encompasses "provision of resources" [39,40] in the distributional and spatial domain. Here, we judged the presence of (1) energy poverty measures through social assistance and tariff support; (2) energy efficiency investment; (3) market regulation; (4) infrastructure development; and (5) new financing models-including those provided by the EU.…”

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Confronting Energy Poverty in Europe: A Research and Policy Agenda

Bouzarovski

Thomson

Cornelis³

2021

Energies

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This paper scrutinizes existing policy efforts to address energy poverty at the governance scale of the European Union (EU) and its constituent Member States. Our main starting point is the recent expansion of energy poverty policies at the EU level, fuelled by the regulatory provisions of the Clean Energy for all Europeans Package, as well as the establishment of an EU Energy Poverty Observatory. Aided by a systematic and customized methodology, we survey the extensive scientific body of work that has recently been published on the topic, as well as the multiple strategies and measures to address energy poverty that have been formulated across the EU. This includes the principal mitigation approaches adopted by key European and national institutions. We develop a framework to judge the distributional and procedural justice provisions within the recently adopted National Energy and Climate Plans, as an indicator of the power, ability and resolve of relevant institutions to combat the causes and consequences of energy injustice. We also provide a research and policy agenda for future action, highlighting a series of scientific and decision-making challenges in the European and global context.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Confronting Energy Poverty in Europe: A Research and Policy Agenda

Bouzarovski

Thomson

Cornelis³

2021

Energies

129

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“…Still, we strive for participation in energy transitions and citizen energy communities as part of a "maxim of inclusivity" [58]. Furthermore, we believe that the "active participant" approach to citizen science and citizen energy communities are key to overcoming the view of energy users as "passive recipients" [59]. Refining and using this key to unlock sustainability goals includes a shift from "seeing participation as simply about eliciting public views on energy systems in invited events, to seeing it as a challenge of mapping the diversities, relations, and productions of already existing forms of participation across energy systems" [60] (p. 12).…”

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Citizen Science and Citizen Energy Communities: A Systematic Review and Potential Alliances for SDGs

2020

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Citizen science and citizen energy communities are pluralistic terms that refer to a constellation of methods, projects, and outreach activities; however, citizen science and citizen energy communities are rarely, if ever, explicitly aligned. Our searches for “citizen science” and “energy” produced limited results and “citizen science” and “energy communities” produced zero. Therefore, to outline a future direction of citizen science, its potential alliances with energy communities, and their collaborative contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals, we performed a systematic literature review and analysis of “public participation” and “energy communities” using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses (PRIMSA) guidelines. The results show four pathways through which current public participation in energy communities might be more explicitly aligned with citizen science projects: benefits and values, energy practices, intermediaries, and energy citizenship. Each of these pathways could engage citizen scientists in qualitative and quantitative research and increase scientific literacy about energy systems. Our call for citizen science to supplement current forms of participation builds from the “ecologies of participation” framework, itself an extension of co-productionist theories of science and technology studies. We conclude with a discussion of affordances and barriers to the alliances between citizen science and energy communities and their potential contributions to SDGs 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, 13: Climate Action, and 17: Partnerships for the Goals.

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“…From these publications, the first conclusion is that there is no single definition of energy justice [ 7 , 13 , 39 ]. Different researchers favour different perspectives [ 40 , 41 ].…”

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An inter-disciplinary approach to the energy transition in South Africa

Todd

McCauley

2021

Discov Sustain

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The compelling need to tackle climate change is well-established. It is a challenge which is being faced by all nations. This requires an approach which is truly inter-disciplinary in nature, drawing on the expertise of politicians, social scientists, and technologists. We report how the pace of the energy transition can be influenced significantly by both the operation of societal barriers, and by policy actions aimed at reducing these effects. Using the case study of South Africa, a suite of interviews has been conducted with diverse energy interests, to develop and analyse four key issues pertinent to the energy transition there. We do so primarily through the lens of delivering energy justice to that society. In doing so, we emphasise the need to monitor, model, and modify the dynamic characteristic of the energy transition process and the delivery of energy justice; a static approach which ignores the fluid nature of transition will be insufficient. We conclude that the South African fossil fuel industry is still impeding the development of the country’s renewable resources, and the price of doing so is being met by those living in townships and in rural areas.

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Proximities of energy justice: contesting community energy and austerity in England

Cited by 68 publications

References 44 publications

Confronting Energy Poverty in Europe: A Research and Policy Agenda

Confronting Energy Poverty in Europe: A Research and Policy Agenda

Citizen Science and Citizen Energy Communities: A Systematic Review and Potential Alliances for SDGs

An inter-disciplinary approach to the energy transition in South Africa

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