Energy transition

Array

5 publications

• The Transition starts here, now and together

  Rob Hopkins, Lionel Astruc, Editions Actes Sud, Arles, France, October 2017

• Energy democracy. Advancing Equity in Clean Energy Solutions

  Edited by Denise Fairchild, IslandPress, United States, October 2017

• Empowering Electricity. Co-operatives, Sustainability, and Power Sector Reform in Canada.

  Julie L. MacArthur, University of Bristish Colombia Press, October 2016

• The Social Economy International. Perspectives on Economic Solidarity

  Edited by Ash Amin, Zed Books, UK, September 2009

• The triple crunch : joined up solutions to financial chaos, oil decline and climate change to transform the economy

  Collective, 2008

  NEF

2 Videos

• Power to the people: Delivering energy justice through community energy

  Right to Energy Forum 2022, January 24 to 28, 2022

  January 2022

  Energy Cities

• Transition Town Totnes - Transition Together

  Ashden Awards

  2011

One proposal

• Solar Dollars – a way to promote renewable energy, while supporting the local economy and providing interest-free financing for utility companies

  Thomas H. Greco, August 2016

18 case studies

• January success story: Making community energy a reality in the Czech Republic

  REScoop.eu

  Oscar Güell, January 2024

• Free public transportation: Why we need it, and examples from Korean and European cities

  ICLEI

  By Sina Zhen, Sustainable Mobility Officer, ICLEI World Secretariat, April 2021

• The municipality of Burgas pioneers energy efficient housing in Bulgaria

  Transformative Cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Burgas energy efficient housing, 2020

  TNI

• Opening Event of the Shonai Renewable Energy Power

  Article of Seikatsu Club.coop, 31/05/2019

  May 2019

• Reimagining the world of (care)work: the case of Cargonomia

  Ágota Csoma, Orsolya Lazányi, February 2019

• PENGON-FOE Palestine: Empowering Women as Sustainable Energy Leaders project

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  PENGON-FOE Palestine, 2019

  TNI

• Barcelona Energia

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Barcelona en Comú, 2019

  TNI

• Transforming our world: A cooperative 2030 Cooperative contributions to SDG 7

  ILO Briefs

  June 2018

  BIT/ILO

• Earthworker Cooperative

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Earthworker Cooperative, 2018

  TNI

• Leuven 2030

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Leuven 2030, 2018

  TNI

• GOIENER TALDEA – Empowering citizens through energy

  Goiener S Coop, 2018

  TNI

• Illinois’s Cook County Helps Solar Energy Cooperatives Rise and Shine

  Kevin Stark, July 2017

• How Government Support for Social Enterprise Can Reduce Poverty and Green House Gases

  Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba

  Lynne Fernandez, January 2016

• Local Governments Supporting Local Energy Initiatives: Lessons from the Best Practices of Saerbeck (Germany) and Lochem (The Netherlands)

  Sustainability 2015, 7(2), 1900-1931

  Thomas Hoppe, Antonia Graf, Beau Warbroek, Imke Lammers, Isabella Lepping, 2015

• Social and Economic Benefits of Community Energy Schemes

  report produced by Shared Assets and the National Trust

  Shared Assets and the National Trust, UK, 2014

• What factors enable community-leadership of renewable energy projects? Lessons from a woodfuel heating initiative

  Jennifer C. Rogers, Eunice A Simmons, Ian Convery, Andrew Weatherall, March 2012

• Green Energy and Green Economy Act

  Brief Public Policy Profile CCRPèS - CSERP

  Sarah Amyot, May 2010

  RELIESS

• Power to the People: community‐led wind energy – obstacles and opportunities in a South Wales Valley

  Community Development Journal, 36, 96-110.

  Emily Hinshelwood, 2001

36 Analyses/working papers/articles

• Energy sharing for energy communities - a reference guide

  Part of Energy Communities repository of the European Commission

  January 2024

• Financing guide for energy communities

  REScoop.eu and EcoPower, January 2023

• Energy Communities Repository

  European Commission

  2023

• Community Energy Municipal Guide

  Sscale 20 30 50

  December 2022

• Wind energy: A gender perspective

  IRENA report

  The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), 2020

• The Ecological Limits of Work: on carbon emissions, carbon budgets and working time

  Phiipp Frey, June 2019

• Renewable Energy: A Gender Perspective

  Report IRENA

  International Renewable Energy Agency, January 2019

• Solar Action Plan for London

  Mayor of London

  June 2018

• Energy and Gender: Ecofeminist views on energy

  Rapporteurship of the debate - Xarxa per la sobirania energètica. La Fede, April 24th 2017

  April 2017

• Cultures of Community Energy International case studies

  Neil Simcock, Rebecca Willis, Peter Capener in association with Lancaster Environment Centre – Lancaster University, May 2016

• Energy, democracy, community

  John Duda, August 2015

• Power To The People: Toward Democratic Control of Electricity Generation

  Trade Unions for Energy Democracy Worling Paper n°4

  June 2015

• The energy transition to energy democracy. Power to the people.

  Final results oriented report of the REScoop 20-20-20 Intelligent Energy Europe project

  REScoop, April 2015

• The institutional space of community initiatives for renewable energy: a comparative case study of the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark

  Energy, Sustainability and Society 2014

  Marieke Oteman, Mark Wiering, Helderman Jan-Kees, 2014

• Providing clean energy and energy access through cooperatives

  ILO Publication

  December 2013

  BIT/ILO

• Europe in transition. Local communities leading the way to a low-carbon society.

  Eamon O’Hara, June 2013

  AEIDL

• Making Space for Economic Democracy: The Danish Wind Power Revolution

  Think pieces for the UNRISD conference “Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy”. 6-8 May 2013

  Andrew Cumbers, May 2013

  UNRISD

• Growing grassroots innovations: exploring the role of community-based initiatives in governing sustainable energy transitions

  Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 30(3) 381 – 400

  Gill Seyfang, Alex Haxeltine, 2012

• Social Factors in Wind Energy Development of Denmark in 1980s – 1990s: Society and Technology

  Panuwat Permsantithum, Rajarajan Rathinavelu, 2012

• The Indian CDM (Clean Development Mechanism). Subsidizing and Legitimizing Corporate Pollution

  An Overview of CDM in India with case Studies from various sectors

  Soumitra Ghosh, Subrat Kumar Sahu, November 2011

  NFFPFW, DISHA, NESPON

• Bringing Social Equity into Low-carbon Investment: why it matters and emerging lessons.

  Becky Buell, Ruth Mayne, September 2011

• The double challenge. Understanding the Challenge: Energy, climate change and development

  In support of a ‘Green Energy Revolution’ to simultaneously tackle the right to development and the climate crisis

  Swedish Society for Nature Conservation

• Degrowth and the supply of money in an energy-scarce world

  Ecological Economics xxx (2011) xxx–xxx. Elsevier.

  Richard Douthwaite, 2011

• Zero carbon Britain 2030. A new energy Strategy: The second report of the Zero Carbon Britain project

  June 2010

  NEF

• Beyond Copenhagen: Common Ownership, Reparations, Degrowth and Renewable Energy Technology Transfer

  Kolya Abramsky, April 2010

• Energy cooperatives and local ownership in the field of renewable energy technologies: A literature review

  RiCC – research report 2010/4

  Anna Schreuer, Daniela Weismeier-Sammer, April 2010

• Enough is Enough Ideas for a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources

  O’Neill, D.W., R. Dietz, and N. Jones (editors). 2010. The report of the Steady State Economy Conference, Leeds, UK. Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (Arlington, Virginia, USA) and Economic Justice for All (Leeds, UK).

  Daniel W. O’Neill, Rob Dietz, Nigel Jones, 2010

  CASSE

• Principles for Constructing Alternative Socio-economic Organizations: Lessons Learned from Working Outside Institutional Structures

  Review of Radical Political Economics. Volume (Year): 41 (2009)

  David Barkin, September 2009

• Eco-innovation - putting the EU on the path to a resource and energy eficient economy

  The issue of resource scarcity is back on the agenda. What should EU do about it?

  Raimund Bleischwitz, Michael Kuhndt, Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek, Stefan Giljum, March 2009

  Wuppertal Institute, Germany

• Stability, participation and transparency in renewable energy policy: Lessons from Denmark and the United States

  Elsevier Policy and Society 27 (2009) 379–398

  Miguel Mendonça, Stephen Lacey, Frede Hvelplund, 2009

• What are the barriers and incentives for community-owned means of energy production and use?

  Energy Policy Volume 36, Issue 12, December 2008, Pages 4401–4405, Elsevier.

  Gordon Walker, December 2008

• Triple crunch Joined-up solutions to financial chaos, oil decline and climate change to transform the economy

  November 2008

  NEF

• Social Acceptance and Social Innovation in Wind Power Technology

  Energy Policy, 35, 2761- 2769.

  2007

• Innovation diffusion, public policy, and local initiative: The case of wood-fuelled district heating systems in Austria

  Energy Policy, 35, 1992-2008

  Madlener Reinhard, 2007

• The Middelgrunden Offshore Wind Farm. A Popular Initiative.

  2003

• Danish Experience in Wind Energy - Local Financing

  Working report for the WELFI project (Wind Energy Local Financing) coordinated by CLER (Comité de Liaison Energies Renouvelables), France with support from the EU SAVE Program.

  Gunnar Boye Olesen, Preben Maegaard, Jane Kruse, December 2002

2 Charter/Manifesto

• Europe’s energy transition: active energy citizens take ownership

  Policy priorities for the 2024 European Parliament elections

  2024

  The European Federation of Citizen Energy Cooperatives

• A REPowerEU for Energy Citizens Manifesto

  REScoop.eu

  April 2022

One public contribution

• Fifty Million Farmers

  Twenty-Sixth Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures October 2006, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA

  Richard Heinberg, October 2006

  NEI

15 articles

• Carpooling, solidarity-based shared mobility

  Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, April 2023

  April 2023

  RIPESS Europe

• RailCoop: Sustainable and citizen mobility on track!

  Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, April 2023

  April 2023

  RIPESS Europe

• Blowing in the wind

  Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, April 2023

  April 2023

  RIPESS Europe

• CoopCycle: uberization is not inevitable

  Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, April 2023

  April 2023

  RIPESS Europe

• Horse-drawn carriages taking children to school? Why not?

  Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, April 2023

  April 2023

  RIPESS Europe

• exGKN FOR FUTURE: Italy’s first socially integrated factory

  Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, April 2023

  Jason Nardi, April 2023

  RIPESS Europe, RIES

• Velorution: changing the city, changing life

  Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, April 2023

  April 2023

  RIPESS Europe

• Free public transport in Luxembourg

  Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, April 2023

  Eric Lavillunière, April 2023

  RIPESS Europe, INEES

• ‘A gentle calm’: France’s streets once again echo to sound of working horses

  Article from The Guardian, 25 November 2022

  Angélique Chrisaphis, November 2022

  The Guardian

• Sailing and electric cargo in the Aegean and the Mediterranean: a pilot experiment

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - November 2021

  Georgia Bekridaki, November 2021

  RIPESS Europe, Dock Social Solidarity Zone

• Spain’s energy cooperatives lead charge to exploit solar power

  Article of The Guardian, 1 Sept, 2021

  Stephen Burgen, September 2021

  The Guardian

• How Indigenous Communities Are Building Energy Sovereignty

  Article of Yes! Mafazine, 18/08/2021

  Natalie Peart, August 2021

  Yes! Magazine

• The municipality of Burgas pioneers energy efficient housing in Bulgaria

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - January 2021

  Article from the Atlas of Utopias, January 2021

  RIPESS Europe

• Tilos, Greece: the first island in the Med to run entirely on wind and solar power

  article of The Guardian, 15/06/2017

  Rachel Howard, June 2017

• It Was a Blighted City Block. But This Woman Is Turning It Into a Solar-Powered Ecovillage

  Article of Yes! Magazine, Dec 07, 2016

  Zenobia Jeffries, December 2016

  Yes! Magazine

2 organizations RIPESS & ODDs

• Energy as a democracy and communty engagement issue in Worcester

  2021

  RIPESS Intercontinental, RIPESS North America

• Alternative housing midel for regional Australia

  2021

  RIPESS Intercontinental, NENA