Energy as a common pool resource

ENERGY4ALL aims to develop energy configurations as a common pool resource, to test the community dimension in the design and implementation of Positive Energy Districts (PED) and Energy Communities (EC). The project explores an inclusive governance model, using supportive toolboxes for the design and implementation of participatory energy governance and replicable pathways for PEDs/ECs. The project uses an open definition of EC, as a set of households producing and consuming energy, as well as users of a common resource to increase energy efficiency. ENERGY4ALL conceptualises ECs as featuring three main elements: resource, community and governance. These elements are explored in different cases within the four pilot cases, Stavanger (Norway), Styria (Austria), Budapest (Hungary) and Rome (Italy). We cover diverse characteristics including urban and industrial sites, territorial scales from household to district, and multi-stakeholder involvement of public authorities, private enterprises, research institutions and local citizen groups. ENERGY4ALL develops policy briefs for PEDs/ECs under regulatory and institutional lenses (WP1) in order to develop a common methodology and roadmap throughout the four pilot cases (WP2), which are then co-designed with local stakeholders (WP3-6), with communication playing a fundamental role (WP7). For the Norwegian partners, ENERGY4ALL will harness and test knowledge on how to enable PEDs and energy communities by learning from various European pilots and identifying pathways to develop and operationalise a PED in Hillevåg, Stavanger. We take a quintuple helical approach, with point of departure in public, private and knowledge sector partners, and in civil society organisations we will systematically involve, and in built environment legacies. This positions us to identify sociotechnical insights that combine attention to infrastructure and practices in Stavanger’s green transition.

ENERGY4ALL aims at developing energy configurations as a common pool resource, testing the community dimension in the design and implementation of emergent Positive Energy Districts (PED) and Energy Communities (EC). The project explores an inclusive governance model through supportive toolboxes for the design and implementation of participatory energy governance and replicable pathways for PEDs/ECs. The project operates with an open definition of EC, including both as a set of households producing and consuming energy, as well as users of a common public resource to increase energy efficiency. ENERGY4ALL conceptualises ECs as featuring three constitutive elements in mutual relationship: resource, community and governance. These elements are explored in different cases within the four pilot cases, Stavanger (Norway), Styria (Austria), Budapest (Hungary) and Rome (Italy), with coverage of various characteristics including urban and industrial sites, territorial scales from household to district, and multi-stakeholder involvement of public authorities, private enterprises, research institutions and local citizen groups. ENERGY4ALL develops policy briefs for PEDs/ECs under regulatory and institutional lenses (WP1) in order to develop a common methodology and roadmap throughout the four pilot cases (WP2), which are then co-designed with local stakeholders (WP3-6), with a fundamental role in communication (WP7). For the Norwegian partners, ENERGY4ALL will harness and test knowledge on how to enable PEDs and energy communities by learning from various European pilots and identifying pathways to develop and operationalise a PED in Hillevåg, Stavanger. We take a quintuple helical approach, with point of departure in public, private and knowledge sector partners, and in civil society organisations we will systematically involve, and in built environment legacies. This positions us to identify sociotechnical insights that combine attention to infrastructure and practices.