Mid-term doctoral seminar: “Democratic energy transitions? Energy democracy in community energy conflicts”

Description

Responding to climate and social crises, social movements, communities, and policy makers around the world struggle to build clean, affordable, and solidarity-based energy solutions that can democratically decarbonize society. These initiatives, labelled as ‘community energy’, rise as alternatives to – and often in conflict with - private market models for energy system transitions. Building on case studies on conflicts over urban heat transitions in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as emerging energy communities in Colombia and Denmark, Ulrik Kohl's study investigates how community energy change agents build alliances and capacities in different contexts and at different scales. Also, he explores the relevance of ideas of ‘energy democracy’.

Opponent: Prof. Frede Hvelplund, Aalborg University, Department of Sustainability and Planning.

Period	20 Nov 2023
Event type	Seminar
Location	Malmö, SwedenShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International