Community energy can be conceptualized as a social movement, which aims to develop a sustainable, democratic, and localist energy system. Increasingly, community energy initiatives aim to develop citizen-led heating projects. District heating projects are characterized by costly investments, a substantial …

The paper describes the first implementation of the Unified Citizen Engagement Approach (UCEA), a newly developed design-oriented framework for citizen engagement in the energy transition. The preliminary testing and evaluation of several of its pathways in Groningen, the Netherlands, show that the role …

Inspiratiedag Halen, Brengen, Maken Energietransitie Drentsche Aa Een interactieve conferenties voor inwoners en lokale energie-initiatieven uit het Nationaal Park Drentsche Aa

I was invited to a meeting of the international ROLES Consortium as a guest speaker to talk about the local energy transition in The Netherlands.

Workshop Wij Doen Het! over de kracht van dorpen en het werkboek Wij Doen Het! Als instrument voor lokale gemeenschappen om zelf energiedorpsplannen op te zetten die rekening houden met de kracht van het dorp en de kwaliteiten van de gebouwde omgeving (van gebouw tot landschap).

In the last decade, the number of local energy initiatives (LEIs) has increased in western European countries. Although several success factors and barriers in the development of LEIs have been studied by other scholars, there has been limited scholarly interest in the overall impact of LEIs so far. …