Energy Citizenship Empowerment Kit
Renewable energy communities are a vital part of the transition to a zero-carbon energy system. They can engage citizens in the clean energy transition, reduce the cost of energy, tackle energy poverty, and improve the resilience of energy systems. But so far, barriers to entry remain high for many citizens.
The Energy Citizenship Empowerment Kit aims to support groups, citizens and local planners and policymakers to identify barriers and co-create solutions. It supports the investigation and identification of potential opportunities and solutions tailored to specific contexts during workshops, brainstorming sessions, energy planning sessions, conferences, and webinars.
It includes instructions for use and sets of cards representing each of four different socio-demographic factors that are associated with dynamics of exclusion: gender, socio-economic background, belonging to an ethnic minority, and housing status.
The socio-demographic factors are used as ‘lenses’ through which users look at five different dimensions that are considered to play a crucial role in enabling or hindering citizens’ participation and engagement in the energy system: knowledge and skills, legal, finance/economy, empowerment/psychology, and participation.
Languages: Dutch, English, Italian, Polish, Spanish