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Free studies, reports and recommendations providing guidance, tools and inspiration to energy transitioners.
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Community Energy
A practical guide to reclaiming power - 2020
The energy transition needs you Welcome to your community energy handbook. This is your go-to guide, packed with instructions, practical tips and resources, to build […]
Campaigning for Local Climate Change Mitigation
Compilation of ideas - 2020
Creative approaches to communication on local climate change initiatives can serve as a useful vehicle for cities messaging on the topic. Delivering climate friendly ideas […]
How Local Authorities can encourage citizen participation in energy transitions
Including citizens in energy systems - 2020
The aim of this report is to consider how Local Authorities can better engage with publics as a part of the energy transition in a meaningful way and support the active participation of citizens in energy systems and the energy transition. The report informes by energy Social Science and Humanities literature as a means of recognising that the energy transition is not merely a technological transition, but a social one.
Democratic transition factory
Involving citizens in Europe's energy transition - 2019
In this study, we identified cities with pioneering participatory initiatives. The objective is to highlight innovative practices to understand the evolution of the role of cities and the modifications of the dynamics between players. Similarly, we seek to understand what implications these new practices have for energy transition policies and what lessons can be learned from them.
Blockchain and energy transition
What challenges for cities? - 2018
The opportunities and potential issues of blockchain technology for local authorities will be addressed. We will also look ahead to determine whether and when mass use of this technology at the local level could be viable.
Local energy ownership in Europe
An exploratory study of public initiatives in France, Germany and the United Kingdom - 2017
The debate on local energy governance involves a multitude of concepts whose content is not always very clear. Notions such as “re-municipalisation”, “devolution”, “ownership” or energy “democratisation” have become strong symbols, rallying cries for a more political and local vision of the energy transition.
The Energy Transition Chronicles
Storytellings of five cities in Europe - 2016
The serie of “Chronicles of the Energy Transition” case studies was produced to go further in supporting local authorities and to describe successful energy transition processes.
Because it is important to show that energy transition is “possible”. Why, how, with whom, for what results? We interviewed local players and decision-makers to find out more.
Local governance from A to Z
Positive glossary of the energy transition - 2015
Discover the multiple facets of a collaborative city from A-Z !
Energy transition is the wide and unlimited! What it is proposing however is a change of perspective.
As the energy landscape is undergoing radical change, from a once hierarchical and monopolistic system to a more distributed and decentralised one, so too should the decision-making architecture.
30 Energy Cities’ proposals for the energy transition of cities and towns
Practical proposals to accelerate the energy transition - 2014
In 2012, Energy Cities initiated a collective process aimed at making proposals to accelerate the energy transition of European territories. The 30 Proposals in your hands are the result of part of this collective work.
What makes these Proposals new? These Proposals are based on the observation and analysis of hundreds of practical examples, all stemming from existing practices. Our intention is to make these practices “talk”, to convey their meaning and to show the path they are pointing at, sometimes without us being aware of it.
