Energy Citizenship Across Europe: Contexts and Conditions for an Emerging Energy Transition [Hardcover]

This open access book is intended to provoke and progress new thinking in the field of energy research for policy makers, practitioners and scholars. By drawing on a broad range of social and innovation theory insights, this book showcases the diversity of energy citizenship and opens up the concept by including multiple latent, less visible, forms of energy citizenship that also form part of the energy transition. Focusing on how energy citizenship is considered in eight countries across Europe, each of the contributions highlight the empirical variety, the geographical differences, the contextual challenges, and the socio-political histories out of which energy citizenship develops. In exploring if there are certain convergences and similarities across contexts, the collection makes a significant contribution to debates and discussions surrounding the European Energy Union.

Chapter 1. Introducing Energy Citizenship (Frances Fahy, Edina Vadovics and Bonno Pel).- Chapter 2. Energy Citizenship in Belgium: Potentials and Paradoxes (Bonno Pel and J?nne Huhnt).- Chapter 3. For and by citizens: the various faces of energy citizenship in Germany (Ariane Debourdeau and Martina Sch?fer).- Chapter 4. Energy citizenship in Hungary: diversity, actors, focus and system-contestation (Edina Vadovics and Anita SzQllQssy).- Chapter 5. Energy Citizenship in Ireland: Beyond individual private agency (Benjamin Schmid and Frances Fahy).- Chapter 6. The evolution of energy citizenship in the Netherlands: From protest to partnership with business and government (Ren? Kemp, Marianna Markantoni, Job Zomerplaag, Bonno Pel and Ali Crighton).- Chapter 7. Advancing Energy Citizenship: Hindering and Supporting Factors in Latvia's Energy Transition (rika LagzdiFa, J
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