10.5281/zenodo.3479169
https://zenodo.org/records/3479169
oai:zenodo.org:3479169
Lennon, Breffní
Breffní
Lennon
0000-0002-9957-5765
Cleaner Production Promotion Unit, School of Engineering, University College Cork, Ireland
Dunphy, Niall
Niall
Dunphy
0000-0001-8094-4121
Cleaner Production Promotion Unit, School of Engineering, University College Cork, Ireland
Sanvicente, Estibaliz
Estibaliz
Sanvicente
LGI Consulting, Paris, France
Hillman, Joanne
Joanne
Hillman
Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
Morrissey, John
John
Morrissey
Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
Energy Management Approaches for Sustainable Communities
Zenodo
2018
ENTRUST project
Community energy
Sustainable communities
Energy transition
2018-02-28
eng
Project deliverable
10.5281/zenodo.3479168
https://zenodo.org/communities/entrust
https://zenodo.org/communities/eu
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
A key objective of work package 5 of the ENTRUST project has been to develop a cohesive community research environment utilising participatory action research (PAR) techniques that encourage active participant engagement in the project and the issues informing ENTRUST’s intersectional, co-design programme. Establishing the creative spaces whereby stakeholders are able to identify, consider, and then deliberate on, the actions and behaviours that influence their respective participations and positionalities in the energy system and its current transition, has been essential to this approach. In addition, it was important for the research team that this was done by implementing a range of iterative, multi-scalar dialogues with participants within each of the case study communities that, in turn, also informed the team’s engagements in each of the other communities when applicable.
The previous two deliverables for this work package reported on how the ENTRUST team went about achieving these goals, from the selection of the communities of practice through to the reflexive feedback and analysis of the community dialogue outcomes. An important part of these activities was to ensure that an essential requirement of the project, achieving gender inclusion in the research actions, was possible. Collecting a majority male (or indeed female) perspective was considered anathema to the project’s overall goals and therefore not considered an option. D5.1 Report on Community Dialogues demonstrated how the research team went about ensuring that balanced engagement did occur, in terms of gender, and discussed the suite of collaborative methods that were deployed. D5.2 Report on the Expert Feedback on Community Dialogue Outcomes dealt more specifically with an innovative research method adopted for the research communities in this project, a deliberative democracy tool known as the citizen jury, in addition to a modified Delphi-panel with experts – this was further augmented with engagements at the community level – to coproduce a set of principles that promote a fair and inclusive energy transition in Europe.
This deliverable, in turn, reports on the research carried out on new policy mixes and innovative cooperation mechanisms that have the potential to support transitions. In addition to the key findings emerging from WP5, the report has also applied a number of the lessons learned from Task 4.1 to develop the cooperation mechanisms that will prove useful to policy makers tasked with driving the energy transition at the various socio-political and infrastructural levels of Europe’s energy transition. Policy plays a key role in shaping societal responses to a vast array of influences and circumstances, both in terms of human and non-human interactions. Therefore, the tools and pathways policy makers promote as they seek to drive an agenda towards its final policy goal can have consequences not always foreseen by those self-same policy makers. This report offers a number of examples of innovative cooperation mechanisms that have been applied in real-world contexts, as well as some that could complement existing mechanisms already in place. The insights presented in this report highlight a number of examples, or scenarios, where energy user communities outside of the ENTRUST project can learn from and apply to their local and national contexts.
European Commission
10.13039/501100000780
657998
Energy System Transition Through Stakeholder Activation, Education and Skills Development