RENEWABLE ENERGY REGIONS:
SOCIO-ECOLOGY OF SELF SUFFICIENCY
Context of the Project:
Municipalities and regions have the capacity to create the basis conditions necessary for overcoming implementation barriers, motivate citizens and businesses, and finally, stimulate participation and enhance value creation by decentralizing energy supply systems via regional and local self-governance processes.
Objectives:
Results:
Building Blocks:
Building Block I
explores the decision-making and communication processes associated with the transformation of an energy system to a system based on RE at the regional and local levels, taking the social environment of the actors into consideration. Thus, inferences will be based on the composition of RE actor networks including value chain actors - in order to investigate whether or not they can be effectively governed and, if so, in what way.
Building Block II
analyzes and evaluates regional energy concepts, emphasizing bioenergy. This analysis is based on comprehensive and systematic assessment taking two factors into account: (1) the internal of potential RE conversion system, especially for biomass, and (2) integration into a conventional energy system in terms of technology, ecology, and economics.
Building Block III
explores the impact of biomass cultivation on landscape structures as well as on habitat functions and their interconnectedness. Taking economic aspects into consideration, concepts of ecologically sustainable cultivation will be developed. The risk potential associated with land use choices will be indicated and changes in the landscape will be ascertained. Another objective is to develop a module titled "nature conservation" aimed at ecological balance.
Building Block IV
examines the perceptions, attitudes, interests, and behaviors of residents towards the goal of attaining local self-sufficiency through the use of RE. The findings will allow conclusions to be drawn about how the barriers associated with the arrangement of basic local conditions can be recognized, acceptance can be raised, and demands for RE can be stimulated.
Building Block V
explores why particular emphasis is placed on the reduction of absolute energy consumption within regional strategies aiming to reach self-sufficiency via RE usage. At the same time, previously implemented measures will be analyzed in order to identify additional energy saving potentials.
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Project Duration:
May 2009 - May 2013
Official Homepage:
Email: info@ee-regionen.de
Project Team/Contact:
Centre for Renewable Energy (ZEE)
University of Freiburg
DR. Chantal Ruppert-Winkel
Tennenbacher Str. 4
D-79106 Freiburg
Tel.: ++49(0)761-203-37 92
Fax: ++49(0)761-203-36 90
chantal.ruppert@zee.uni-freiburg.de
www.zee.uni-freiburg.de
Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOW)
Dr. Astrid Aretz
Postdamer Str. 105
D-10785 Berlin
Tel.: ++49(0)30 88 45 94-0
Fax: ++49(0)30 882 54 39
Email: mailbox@ioew.de
www.ioew.de
University of Hohenheim
Institute for Landscape and Plant - Ecology
Prof. Dr. Klaus Schmieder
August von Hartman Str. 3
D-70593 Stuttgart
Tel.: ++49(0)711 459 236 08
Fax: ++49(0)711 459 228 31
Email: schmied@uni-hohenheim.de
www.ecology.uni-hohenheim.de
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