Energy Citizenship across Europe

Frances Fahy is Professor of Geography and the Director of the Ryan Institute at the University of Galway, where she leads several research teams on sustainable consumption and energy citizenship research. Frances is an environmental geographer and she has published more than 100 publications and has coordinated over 20 funded research projects including as the coordinator and lead of the Horizon 2020 project, EnergyPROSPECTS, a large scale social science research project which explored energy citizenship in Europe. A Fulbright Scholar, Frances previously served as Head of Geography at University of Galway and is the past President of the Geographical Society of Ireland.  

Edina Vadovics, with a background in environmental sciences and policy, is research director of GreenDependent Institute, a non-profit research and action organisation promoting sustainable lifestyles and multistakeholder dialogue. Edina's research focuses on 1.5 °C lifestyles, citizenship and social innovation with the aim to connect environmental and social considerations in dozens of EU and national projects such as EnergyPROSPECTS. She is also involved in action-oriented work with citizens, communities and municipalities, and has published extensively for both audiences. She worked as an expert to the EEA, UNEP, IGES, and is a member of the SCORAI Europe steering committee.

Chapter 1. Introducing Energy Citizenship (Frances Fahy, Edina Vadovics and Bonno Pel).- Chapter 2. Energy Citizenship in Belgium: Potentials and Paradoxes (Bonno Pel and Jönne Huhnt).- Chapter 3. For and by citizens: the various faces of energy citizenship in Germany (Ariane Debourdeau and Martina Schäfer).- Chapter 4. Energy citizenship in Hungary: diversity, actors, focus and system-contestation (Edina Vadovics and Anita Szöllössy).- Chapter 5. Energy Citizenship in Ireland: Beyond individual private agency (Benjamin Schmid and Frances Fahy).- Chapter 6. The evolution of energy citizenship in the Netherlands: From protest to partnership with business and government (René Kemp, Marianna Markantoni, Job Zomerplaag, Bonno Pel and Ali Crighton).- Chapter 7. Advancing Energy Citizenship: Hindering and Supporting Factors in Latvia's Energy Transition ( rika Lagzdi a, Janis Brizga, Ivars Kudre ickis, Rasa Ikstena and Raimonds Ernsteins).- Chapter 8. Energy citizenship in Bulgaria: Revealing the current energy landscape and the way forward (Marko Hajdinjak and Desislava Asenova).- Chapter 9. Building trust through energy citizenship? The developing landscape of energy citizenship in France (Karin Thalberg and Camille Defard).- Chapter 10.Conclusions and reflections: the tapestry of energy citizenship can (and should) be woven by all (Edina Vadovics, Marko Hajdinjak, Karin Thalberg, Michael Lydon and Frances Fahy).