Facilitating the energy transistion. What Dutch municipatities can do now to facilitate their citizen's energy producing cooperatives
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2019-04-17
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This study looks into the Dutch energy transition and in particular to the way municipalities deal with the rising number of citizens energy cooperatives. The study focusses on the way the cooperatives perceive their municipalities as helpful and looks into the ways the municipalities can facilitate these initiatives through the transition management theory by Rotmans. This theory proposes extra policy instruments in addition to the common instruments of legislative and financial instruments. The main question is this research is “How can Dutch municipalities provide a constructive approach towards energy producing citizens’ cooperatives to advance the energy transition?”. The research is a multiple case study of seven cooperatives active in seven municipalities, most notable Amsterdam and Nijmegen. The primary data consists of eight standardized open ended interviews. The small sample of responses shows that overall, the forms of facilitation that the cooperatives receive are mainly the common legislative and financial instruments. The cooperatives overall describe an ideal situation with more instruments in the line of the transition management theory. The perceived most important missing instrument is the transition arena instrument.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen