Inspired by the energy democracy movement, this conceptual review critically explores
relationships between concentrated or distributed renewable energy and political power …

A growing literature suggests that community owned renewable energy (CRE) projects have
the potential to deliver a range of environmental and local socio-economic benefits. There is …

The grand challenges that humanity faces—poverty, inequality, hunger, conflict, climate
change, deforestation, and pandemics, among others—hinder the progress of sustainable …

The transformation of energy systems is influencing economic policy agendas all over the
world, particularly in industrialized countries. In this process, Germany has taken a …

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 …

Grand societal challenges (GSCs) represent complex, multi‐level, multi‐dimensional
problems that require concerted efforts by various actors–public, private, and non‐profit–to …

The aim of this study was to characterise factors affecting citizen participation in community
energy initiatives. Data came from an online survey of participants in energy cooperatives …

Die Reihe bietet empirisch angeleiteten, quantitativen und international vergleichenden
Arbeiten, Untersuchungen von grenzüberschreitenden Transformationsund …

Organized immaturity has been defined as the erosion of the individual's capacity for the
public use of reason, pressured by control patterns of socio-technological systems built on …

In this article we assess public communication on nuclear energy in Poland against four
theoretical ideal types of the public sphere in modern democracies. We investigate law …