Promoting Social Innovation and Citizen Participation in the local Energy Transition

Over the past three years, ENGAGE has researched how social innovations – new social practices and forms of organization – can contribute to strengthened citizen participation in the energy transition. At the end of the project, the Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility (IKEM) has now published its research findings. ‘The energy transition is […]

ENGAGE Conference

On September 13, the final event of the ENGAGE project will take place in Berlin. This project has been researching the potential of social innovations – such as citizen participation and community energy – in the energy transition since 2021. At the event, the project partners will present the results of their study and recommendations […]

Proposal for a nationwide regulation of citizen participation in wind and solar parks

Ground-mounted photovoltaic systems on a green field

Acceptance for the energy transition depends on involving residents affected by it – this is the premise of a recently published legal study by IKEM on behalf of the Bündnis Bürgerenergie (BBEn) and the Deutscher Genossenschafts- und Raiffeisenverband (DGRV). Only if wind and solar parks will only be recognized as a positive development in the […]

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IKEM and EUETH will be hosting a series of side events at this year’s climate negotiations to discuss the energy-climate-defense nexus, the reconstruction of Ukraine’s energy system, and nature-based solutions for climate mitigation.