Community Energy Literature Review

The interactions between climate fiction and environmental activism are the subject of a paper by Alacovska and Holt (2023). They describe environmental activism as “grassroots, decentralised social movements” which attempt to address issues of “inequality and systemic injustice arising from anthropogenic climate change, environmental degradation and ecological collapse” by means of non-hierarchical collective organising. The main object of their paper is to propose methods for future research, but here we will only draw on their introduction to the subject and its background. They believe that the popular genre of climate fiction influences climate activism , with the potential to stimulate the imagination and to energise the “quest for the attainment of better climate alternatives”. This stands in contrast with much writing on climate change, which is concerned with data and “mathematical prediction models for forecasting and comprehending the gravity of global environmental challeng...

Bristol Energy Cooperative http://www.bristolenergy.coop/reports.html Centre for Sustainable Energy        https://www.cse.org.uk/ Community Energy England https://communityenergyengland.org/ Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) is now part of the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-business-energy-and-industrial-strategy Energy Saving Trust http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/ European Commission https://ec.europa.eu/commission/priorities/energy-union-and-climate_en Institute for Sustainable Futures (Birmingham): https://www.bcu.ac.uk/business/institutes/isf International Energy Agency           https://www.iea.org/ Local Energy Scotland            https://www.localenergy.scot/ National Grid       https://www.nat...

The following open access databases have yielded promising results for searches broadly related to CE, such as “distributed power generation”. Google Scholar has so far produced the most useful results for more specific searches. Google Scholar                                https://scholar.google.co.uk/ OSTI.gov (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) contains several databases; t he most useful    may prove to be t he Department of Energy Pages dealing with “Scholarly scientific publications resulting from DOE-funded research”.                                       https://www.osti.gov Microsoft academic   http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ OpenGrey http://www.ope...

An entry on the University of Wollongong   Research Writing Bookshelf refers to Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews , an Elsevier publication. The review leads to a number of recent open –access articles which might provide a context for community energy projects in the UK. Four of these, including a literature review, are listed below. Transition pathways for a UK low-carbon electricity system: Comparing scenarios and technology implications February 2018 John Barton | Lloyd Davies | Ben Dooley | Timothy J. Foxon | Stuart Galloway | Geoffrey P. Hammond | Áine O’Grady | Elizabeth Robertson | Murray Thomson Photovoltaics and wind status in the European Union after the Paris Agreement January 2018 Roberto Lacal Arantegui | Arnulf Jäger-Waldau Identifying barriers to large-scale integration of variable renewable electricity into the electricity market: A literature review of market design January 2018 Jing Hu | Robert Harmsen | Wina Crijns-Graus | Ernst ...