Community energy has been supported by successive UK governments aiming to harness its potential to support sustainable energy transitions. Our survey of UK community energy groups aims to provide robust evidence of the scope, scale, character, activities and challenges faced by the sector, to support such policymaking. Our research reveals several key issues to be … Continue reading »
Community Energy: Taking stock, moving forwards? The CISE (Community Innovation for Sustainable Energy) project hosts an event to assess the impact of recent policy developments on the community energy sector. (March 2012) Grassroots Innovation Briefings 12: Community Energy: Taking Stock, Moving Forwards?
Intermediation In Shifting Policy Contexts: Interviews with community energy actors Sabine Hielscher reports on the findings of the CISE (Community Innovations for Sustainable Energy) project’s first fifteen interviews with community energy intermediaries to find out about the shifting roles played by them and their networks in supporting community energy. (October 2011) Grassroots Innovation Briefings 10: Intermediaries
Seeing Community Climate Action Through The Eyes Of Mainstream Actors We review a set of studies which aim to capture the scope and character of community energy and community climate action, to see what mainstream actors think is important. (May 2011) Grassroots Innovations Briefing 7: Seeing Community Climate Action
A Thousand Flowers Blooming? Community energy research launch Over 70 activists, academics, policymakers and social entrepreneurs gathered at our project launch to ask key questions about the challenges and opportunities for community energy. (Winter 2010) Grassroots Innovations Briefing 5: A Thousand Flowers Blooming? (CISE launch)
Grassroots Innovations for Sustainable Development Conference, UCL London, 10th June, 2005 The UK government’s new Sustainable Development Strategy, Securing the Future, places greener innovation and local action at its foundation. Yet these two themes are considered apart: greener innovation is presumed to be an industrial concern, whilst local action is identified with the community dimension of sustainable … Continue reading »
Jim Watson writes: I have just submitted some initial views to DECC’s review of Feed-in Tariffs (FITs) on behalf of the CISE project team. The submission looks in particular at the impact on community energy schemes, and the additional benefits of such schemes that we think the review should take into account. The key points … Continue reading »
Last week (13-15 June 2011) some of the Community Innovation in Sustainable Energy research team participated in the 2nd International Conference on Sustainability Transitions. We presented some (tentative) issues and questions arising from our project to researchers interested in sustainability transitions, and received enthusiastic and helpful feedback from international colleagues (click here to view slides). … Continue reading »
On Thursday 11th November Adrian Smith was invited by YouGov to attend an event they were holding in Westminster on the topic, Sustainable Communities – Building the Big Society. It attracted a mix of local government, regeneration, housing, development and environmental professionals. The Director General of Housing from the Department of Communities and Local Government, … Continue reading »
What is it like to work for the Government and how is energy and climate policy really shaped in the UK today? These were some of the questions answered by Dr. Tim Chatterton when he presented a “DECC – a view from the inside” seminar at SPRU on 4th November. Dr. Chatterton, originally a social … Continue reading »
