Energy justice gaps in renewable energy transition policy initiatives in Vermont

Energy Policy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 159 ◽  
pp. 112608
Author(s):  
Walter Keady ◽  
Bindu Panikkar ◽  
Ingrid L. Nelson ◽  
Asim Zia
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Energy Justice ◽  
Transition Policy

scholarly journals Implementing a Just Renewable Energy Transition: Policy Advice for Transposing the New European Rules for Renewable Energy Communities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Hoicka ◽  
Jens Lowitzsch ◽  
Marie Claire Brisbois ◽  
Ankit Kumar ◽  
Luis Ramirez Camargo
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Policy Advice ◽  
Transition Policy

scholarly journals Empowering Vulnerable Consumers to Join Renewable Energy Communities—Towards an Inclusive Design of the Clean Energy Package

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Hanke ◽  
Jens Lowitzsch
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Consumer Empowerment ◽  
Specific Design ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
Vulnerable Consumers ◽  
Energy Justice ◽  
Energy Package

The unequal distribution of costs and benefits of the energy transition is a challenge for energy justice and energy policy. Although the empowerment of consumers to participate in renewable energy communities (RECs) has great potential for a just energy transition, vulnerable consumers remain underrepresented in RE projects. The recast of the European renewable energy directive obliges the European Member States to facilitate the participation of vulnerable consumers and support their inclusion in its “enabling framework” for prosumership. However, the type and specific design of corresponding measures remains unclear. Against this background this article investigates consumer empowerment in a vulnerability context. In particular we stress the need to understand how vulnerability affects participation in RECs to inform both policy makers and practitioners on its specificities and restrictions for the “enabling framework”. To prevent the inclusion of vulnerable consumers in RECs from remaining an idea on paper lawmakers need to be made aware of the implications for a consistent “enabling framework”. We argue that both individual vulnerable consumers as well as RECs need incentives and support to boost RECs’ capacity to include groups that until now remain underrepresented.

scholarly journals Assessing African Energy Transitions: Renewable Energy Policies, Energy Justice, and SDG 7

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-130
Author(s):  
Franziska Müller ◽  
Manuel Neumann ◽  
Carsten Elsner ◽  
Simone Claar
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Energy Policies ◽  
Energy Demands ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Energy Needs ◽  
Policy Frameworks ◽  
Renewable Energy Policies ◽  
Energy Justice

Renewable energy has made significant inroads in addressing growing energy demands on the African continent. However, progress towards SDG 7 is still limited and difficult to trace. Furthermore, the results-oriented rationale of the SDGs means that both policy change and the dimension of environmental justice are not covered properly. We argue that the energy justice concept may provide a powerful tool to offset looming trade-offs and enhance the co-benefits of SDG 7 within broader transition endeavours. In doing so, we assess African energy transition processes based on a comparative mapping of African renewable energy policies in 34 countries. We investigate the scope of policy frameworks in order to analyse their contribution to greater energy justice along different justice dimensions. We then identify four transition scenarios, which reflect the challenges of integrating the justice dimension into renewable energy policies. In comparing these scenarios, we argue that SDG 7 tracking needs to consider the justice dimension to arrive at a more holistic implementation that is in line with socio-ecological justice and takes account of people’s energy needs.

scholarly journals Implementing a just renewable energy transition: Policy advice for transposing the new European rules for renewable energy communities

Energy Policy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 156 ◽  
pp. 112435
Author(s):  
Christina E. Hoicka ◽  
Jens Lowitzsch ◽  
Marie Claire Brisbois ◽  
Ankit Kumar ◽  
Luis Ramirez Camargo
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Policy Advice ◽  
Transition Policy

Energy Justice and Energy Transition in Australia

2020 ◽  
pp. 178-200
Author(s):  
Lee Godden
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Electricity Markets ◽  
Electricity Market ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Price Impacts ◽  
National Electricity Market ◽  
Energy Justice

Australia is in energy transition despite a national policy supportive of fossil fuels. Regional and remote areas, however, remain dependent on fossil fuels, including diesel. Renewable energy is becoming accessible for some regional communities, due to renewable energy incentives. This chapter considers the energy transition in Australia through the energy justice lens. It analyses the distribution of benefits and burdens of energy activities upon remote Indigenous communities, and examines energy price impacts and consumer protection reforms in liberalized electricity markets in the south. The analysis examines how social justice needs to inform the energy transition, also recognising that energy injustice cannot be separated from other social ills, such as poverty and discrimination based on factors including class, race, gender, or indigeneity. It concludes that there are significant protections emerging for energy consumers in the national electricity market, but an inequitable distribution of energy benefits and burdens in remote Aboriginal communities.

Community Energy and a Just Energy Transition

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-82
Author(s):  
Annalisa Savaresi
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Energy Governance ◽  
Energy Justice ◽  
Justice Theories ◽  
The Uk

In recent years, measures to stimulate local and rural communities’ involvement in the generation of renewable energy have been rather optimistically promoted as a means to engender greater legitimacy in and democratization of energy governance, tackle fuel poverty, and deliver energy justice. This chapter assesses what we really know about community energy and its suitability to deliver an equitable energy transition. It scrutinizes evidence from selected EU Member States that have pioneered the mainstreaming of community energy through the lens of justice theories, with the objective to gauge whether and how these policies address core justice questions associated with the energy transition, and the role of law in providing an answer to these. This chapter aims to probe the sometimes uncritical assumptions about community energy, highlighting the complex, layered, conflicting justice claims that underlie its mainstreaming. In order to do this, the chapter distils a set of distributive, procedural, and restorative justice questions associated with community energy, and considers the way in which they have been addressed, drawing on examples from Denmark, Germany, and the UK.

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