The role of energy democracy and energy citizenship for participatory energy transitions: A comprehensive review
Research Institute of Industrial Economics · Lund University
Abstract
Increasingly, scholarly debates and policy developments on citizen participation in energy transitions have included calls for ‘energy democracy’ and active forms of ‘energy citizenship’. The concepts are tightly connected to the debate on energy transition, and the need for a decentralised energy system, based on renewable energy and increased local energy ownership. The two concepts exist in parallel and are sometimes used as synonyms and sometimes with clear distinctions made between them. This spurred an interest to systematically investigate them further. The aim of this paper is to identify similarities and differences between the two concepts and synthesise their contributions to debates on citizen…
Citation impact
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- 15.48
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- 100%
- References
- 74
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2Topics & keywords
- Citizenship
- Citizen journalism
- Energy (signal processing)
- Political science
- Democracy
- Participatory democracy
- Political economy
- Sociology
- Affordable and clean energy