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Watt sense of community? A human geography agenda on energy communities

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Energy communities can potentially advance just transitions towards low-carbon systems by devolving energy production and consumption to local scales. During vibrant debates on evolving energy geographies for more than a decade, human geographers have engaged with conceptualization and emergent models of energy communities in generative ways. We argue for a research agenda where these understandings of space, place and scale enhance research on energy communities. Three points hold particular importance and relevance for this agenda: (a) Pluralising understandings of energy communities, (b) Spatializing perspectives on the potential of energy communities to advance just transitions, and (c) Contextually situating technological-energy innovation strategies.

Source: Progress in Environmental Geography

DOI: 10.1177/27539687241287795

Authors: Siddharth Sareen, Håvard Haarstad, Huiwen Gong, Gerald Aiken, Tomas Moe Skjølsvold, Benjamin Ronald Silvester, Jelena Popovic-Neuber, Mateusz Stopa, Mathias Lindkvist, Micol Pezzotta, Lea Sasse, Shayan Shokrgozar, Bård Torvetjønn Haugland, Oluf Langhelle, Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg

Institutions: Fridtjof Nansen Institute, University of Stavanger, University of Bergen, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Language: English

Topic: Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Affordable and clean energy, Climate action, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,200

Funders: Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe, Norges Forskningsråd, Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, HORIZON EUROPE Climate, Energy and Mobility

Awards: G4541482455, G507171443, Strategies and tOOls for Incentivization and management of flexibility in Energy Communities with distributed Resources, G7475108426

OpenAlex ID: W4403400935

FWCI: 13.86

Cites: 118

Cited by: 19

Related to: 10