Franziska Mey

Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) · Energy Transitions and Public Policy

Public acceptance is central to the success of a transition agenda but with the increasing uptake of renewable energy technology, achieving and sustaining the public legitimacy for accelerating the energy transition is at risk. This study provides an updated account of the energy transition development in Germany and Australia with a focus on insti...

This chapter gives an overview of various forms of civic engagement in the context of the German energy transition. The first section introduces invented and invited spaces of civic participation with a focus on bottom-up citizens’ activities, their dynamics, and social structure. To this end, community energy initiatives such as energy cooperative...

Dem internationalen Trend vieler Länder folgend, befindet sich auch Australien inmitten einer Energiewende. Diese wird von einer nationalen und internationalen Klimapolitik als auch der deutlich gestiegenen Konkurrenzfähigkeit der Erneuerbare Energien angetrieben. Der Erfolg der neuen Technologien hat in den letzten Jahren zu anhaltenden politische...

The energy transition enables more spatially and economically distributed means of organising energy generation, leading to changes in how energy systems are integrated into societies around the world. This chapter analyses the institutional contexts that support a specific social form of energy ownership—community-owned renewable energy (CORE)—and...

This section provides the input data for two different employment development calculation methods: The quantitative analysis, which looks into the overall number of jobs in renewable and fossil fuel industries and the occupational analysis which looks into specific job categories required for the solar and wind sector as well as the oil, gas, and c...

This open access book presents detailed pathways to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2050, globally and across ten geographical regions. Based on state-of-the-art scenario modelling, it provides the vital missing link between renewable energy targets and the measures needed to achieve them. Bringing together the latest research in climate science,...

Degrowth activists and scholars have questioned society's current levels of material throughput and energy use. The energy sector is at the core of any modern economy, and Germany serves as an international showcase for the transition of a large industrialized economy to a low-carbon energy system. Diverse actors, organizational models, and technol...

Bei der jährlichen Verlosung der Green Globe Awards, dem Nachhaltigkeitspreis für innovative Projekte der Bundesstaatsregierung in New South Wales wurden im Oktober 2015 drei Bürgerenergieprojekte ausgezeichnet (NSW Government, 2015a). In der Kategorie Climate Change Leadership wurde die Tathra Community Solar Farm mit dem Preis ausgezeichnet. Hier...

This paper investigates the development of, and changes in, the field of community renewable energy in Denmark since it commenced in the late 1970s. The focus is on community wind projects. We use an organisational and institutional theory perspective following Fligstein and McAdam's concept of strategic action fields. Within this framework we expl...

Despite unsupportive political conditions for renewable energy (RE) in Australia, a new movement is emerging. About 70 Australian community groups have started to embrace the concept of community renewable energy (CRE) and develop their own projects. However, faced with a complex institutional environment and the absence of national government supp...

Energiegenossenschaften, in denen sich Bürger(innen) ehrenamtlich engagieren, sind zu einem Symbol für eine bürgernahe Energiewende geworden.Neue Energiegenossenschaften werden jedoch kaum noch gegründet, weil sie nach der Novelle des Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetzes gegenüber großen Anbietern benachteiligt sind. Gefragt sind nun neue Geschäftsmodelle...