Across the country, major challenges are faced in finding support for renewable energy installations. Citizens often feel unheard and uninvolved in the planning process and feel that the only benefit they get from renewable energy installations is the inconvenience they cause. This creates local opposition to renewable energy installations.
Involving citizens and creating local ownership are therefore key to achieving the green transition. The project "Local involvement and ownership in the green transition" contributes to this by investigating barriers and opportunities in relation to citizen involvement and local ownership in the green transition in Danish rural areas, and we indicate concrete approaches to work with this in practice.
The project maps experiences from existing types of locally anchored renewable energy plants with a special focus on different organizational forms, resource mobilization and the structural challenges that engaged citizens experience. These insights are linked to experiences in the field from the international literature. Together, they provide a basis for new perspectives on how locally anchored renewable energy systems can contribute to rural development.
Meet the researcher behind the project
Postdoc Tobias Gandrup is in charge of the project. Meet him in this short video where he talks about his research and the project (Danish):
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Want to know more?
If you want to know more about the project, please contact postdoc Tobias Gandrup on tel. +45 65 50 30 81 or togan@sam.sdu.dk.