Descripción del proyecto
Transición hacia una energía limpia gracias a la concienciación popular y comunitaria
La ciudadanía energética implica la participación y el empoderamiento de la población en el sector energético y es fundamental para la transición de la Unión Europea hacia la energía limpia. Las comunidades energéticas, agentes no comerciales del mercado energético, también pueden contribuir al logro de este objetivo. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos EC2 desarrollará una conceptualización fisiológica para aclarar qué hace falta para convertirse en un ciudadano energético e identificar factores comerciales jurídicos y socioeconómicos que impiden o fomentan la aparición y la participación de los ciudadanos en las comunidades energéticas. Comprobarán estos factores, su base psicológica y la conductividad de la ciudadanía energética para lograr objetivos políticos de mayor amplitud y crear herramientas digitales a fin de que los agentes interesados superen los obstáculos que se les interpongan.
Objetivo
Energy citizenship – the active involvement and empowerment of the people in the energy sector – is a cornerstone to achieve a clean-energy transition and to build a low carbon and resilient future in the European Union within the next decades. Energy communities – non-commercial market actors in the energy sector – can help to achieve this goal once their potential is known and acknowledge by the citizens of the EU. Hence, the overarching objective of this proposed research is to scale-up both energy citizenship and energy communities to achieve greater social acceptability and more durable governance arrangements via actionable policy recommendations for policy makers. To this end, we employ a transdisciplinary team of experts to (i) develop a psychological conceptualization to understand what it takes to become an energy citizen, (ii) identify legal and socio-economic market factors that can hinder or promote an emergence of and engagement of citizens in energy communities, (iii) experimentally test and gather quantitative-empirical evidence for these factors, psychological underpinnings, and for the conduciveness of energy citizenship for broader sustainable policy goals, (iv) use insights from the empirical work to foster the co-creation of digital tools with stakeholders to overcome barriers, (v) distill and disseminate the gained knowledge in Energy Citizenship Dialogues and an Academy, in a series of community Open-Days across five countries, in scientific articles, at conferences, in online repositories for durable access, and in briefings to policy makers on local, national and EU-level. In line with the EU's thrust to empower the people in the energy sector, this innovative research will provide valuable and evidence-based understanding. It will illuminate the socio-economic, psychological and related factors and their interrelations with legal, regulatory and policy aspects to inform practical applications for fostering energy citizenship.
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H2020-LC-SC3-2020-NZE-RES-CC
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
1150 Wien
Austria