期刊
ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
卷 87, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2021.102482
关键词
Energy democracy; Energy citizenship; Citizen participation; Energy transitions; Energy community; Prosumerism
资金
- Kamprad Family Foundation [20182014]
- European Union [837752]
- Lund University
- H2020 Societal Challenges Programme [837752] Funding Source: H2020 Societal Challenges Programme
This paper aims to identify the similarities and differences between the concepts of 'energy democracy' and 'energy citizenship' and synthesize their contributions to citizen participation in energy transitions. The review of literature shows that these concepts often refer to participation in domestic energy technologies, energy communities, energy transition movements, and energy policy. Energy citizenship tends to focus on individual behavior change and participation in energy systems, while energy democracy focuses on institutionalization of participatory governance and the role of collectives.
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 participation in energy transitions. We review the literature thematically, finding that the concepts often refer to participation in domestic energy technologies, energy communities, energy transition movements, and energy policy. Energy citizenship tends to emphasise behaviour change and ways for individuals to participate in energy systems, thereby often focusing on individuals as agents of change. In contrast, energy democracy tends to focus on institutionalisation of new forms of participative governance and often placing collectives as central agents of change. The review also highlights some weaknesses of the literature: a bias towards decentralised energy systems, a lack of attention to representational democracy, and an underrepresentation of studies from outside Europe and North America.
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