KNOWLEDGE module: Integrated and accessible energy information
Live training in Zoom (31.5.2023, 10-12 CET): Unlocking energy citizenship – Integrated knowledge and information tools for energy communities and citizens
What knowledge and skills are crucial for setting up and/or joining energy communities? What are the knowledge barriers for energy citizenship? How to provide reliable information and facilitate access to energy knowledge for citizens and communities? The live training session aims to provide structured understanding of different types of knowledge barriers for community energy and other citizen-led energy actions. Together with expert speakers, we will also explore integrated approaches and knowledge tools at the European and national level to better encourage citizens to take action, especially in setting up and mainstreaming community energy. Confirmed speakers include Ian Turner (Energy Communities Repository), Daniel Berger (Austrian coordination office for energy communities), and Johanna Held (prototype of EC2’s energy citizenship tool).
The session will be facilitated by Yu-Yi Huynh (ICLEI Europe) and Negar Ghezel Sefloo (University of Graz).
The speakers in the live session are:
Ian Turner (Energy Cities) likes to keep his tasks varied, acting as a “Swiss knife”, mostly working as a manager of projects that focus on city-lead energy and climate communication campaigns or ICT platforms. More recently his focus is shifting to peer-to-peer learning on community energy and specifically how Municipalities can be involved. As the Anglophone of the team he is called into proof reading key Energy Cities documents and has been involved in a number of European bids.
Daniel Berger (Energy and Environment Agency of Lower Austria) works as a PV coordinator, meaning that he is the central point of contact for all questions relating to photovoltaics. His job is to motivate communities, private individuals and companies to expand photovoltaics and to support them in doing so. He manages projects for the Lower Austrian solar power plant, PV citizen participation for communities and the Information Center for Energy Communities.
Johanna Held (University of Graz) studied environmental psychology and is now working as a PhD student in social psychology at the University of Graz. In the EC2 project, she is involved in the psychological studies of energy citizenship and energy communities and in developing a tool to foster energy citizenship and energy communities.