Community Renewables: Balancing Optimism with Reality
| Autor: | Jelte Harnmeijer, Bill Slee |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
business.industry
Natural resource economics Environmental resource management 0211 other engineering and technologies 021107 urban & regional planning Context (language use) Community ownership 02 engineering and technology 7. Clean energy Natural resource Energy policy Devolution Renewable energy Department For Energy And Climate Change (DECC) Scottish Policy Scottish Government Political science Production (economics) 021108 energy Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) business Community Renewables Diversity (business) |
| Zdroj: | A Critical Review of Scottish Renewable and Low Carbon Energy Policy A Critical Review of Scottish Renewable and Low Carbon Energy Policy ISBN: 9783319568973 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-56898-0_3 |
| Popis: | Frequently lauded in the wider UK context, the evolving phenomenon of Scottish community energy is also increasingly receiving international attention, with the Scottish Government’s flagship community energy fund recently highlighted by the OECD as a ‘pioneering’ example of bottom-up policy approaches to renewable energy[1]. Starting from a few scattered projects in the 1990s and early 2000s, the rate of uptake of Scottish community energy – both in raw capacity (kW) terms and in terms of absolute number of projects – has been roughly exponential, equivalent to a growth rate of almost 30% per year. However, this needs to be balanced against the observation that community-owned energy still contributes less than 4% of Scottish onshore renewable energy generation. In this chapter, we explore the context in which community ownership has developed, the rhetoric of community in Scottish policy, the wider regulatory and policy context, the roots of community energy policy, the diversity of practice, the implications of increased devolution on community energy policy, the actual and potential benefits arising from community energy, and the obstacles to increasing its share of the renewable energy market in Scotland. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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