The Role of Public Participation in Energy Transitions

The Role of Public Participation in Energy Transitions provides a conceptual and empirical approach to stakeholder and citizen involvement in the ongoing energy transition conversation, focusing on projects surrounding energy conversion and efficiency, reducing energy demand, and using new forms of renewable energy sources. Sections review and contrast different approaches to citizen involvement, discuss the challenges of inclusive participation in complex energy policymaking, and provide conceptual foundations for the empirical case studies that constitute the second part of the book.

The book is a valuable resource for academics in the field of energy planning and policymaking, as well as practitioners in energy governance, energy and urban planners and participation specialists.

Explains both key concepts in public participation and involvement, along with empirical results gained in implementing these conceptsLinks theoretical knowledge with conceptual and real-life applications in the energy sectorInstructs energy planners in how to improve planning and transformation processes by using inclusive governance methodsContains insights from case studies in the fully transitioned German system that provide an empirical basis for action for energy policymakers worldwide

1. Introduction: Stakeholder involvement and public participation for designing energy policies

Part 1: Concepts of inclusive governance in the energy sector

2. A brief history of the German "Energiewende": Targets, programs and social resonance.

3. The six approaches to inclusive governance: foundations, applications and lessons learned

4. Energy Transition and Civic Engagement

5. From Coal to Renewables: Changing Socio—Ecological Relations of Energy in India, Australia and Germany

6. New Global Governance for Sustainable Global Energy Transformation: Democratic, Participatory-Deliberative, Multilayered

Part 2: Case Studies

7. The Kopernikus Project E-Navi: Linking science, business, and civil society

8. Climate change policies designed by stakeholder and public participation

9. Digital tools in stakeholder participation for the German Energy Transition. Can digital tools improve participation and its outcome?

10. Citizen Participation for wind energy: Experiences from Germany and beyond

11. The contact group – public participation in the distribution network expansion in Baden-Württemberg

12. Social sustainability: Making energy transitions fair to the people

13. Conclusions: Lessons learned