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To assess the overall impact and achievements of local energy initiatives and identify the factors that drive success or create barriers across multiple levels of engagement.

November 11, 2021SustainabilityOpen Access

Success, Failure, and Impact of Local Energy Initiatives in The Netherlands

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LGLynette A. M. H. GermesUniversity of Groningen CWCarina WiekensHanze University of Applied Sciences LHLummina HorlingsRadboud University Nijmegen

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Qualitative study reveals limited overall impact among local energy initiatives in the Netherlands, highlighting barriers across organizational, community, and public-private levels.

Key Points

To assess the overall impact and achievements of local energy initiatives and identify the factors that drive success or create barriers across multiple levels of engagement.
Qualitative interview design investigating local energy initiatives across two provinces in the northern Netherlands.
Conducted 84 in-depth interviews with initiative founders and organizers.
Overall impact achieved by local energy initiatives is qualitatively determined to be limited.
Key success factors and operational barriers manifest across three interrelated tiers: the internal initiative level, the community level, and the public–private level.

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Germes et al. (2021) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9a148d2b9869bfd24e194c https://doi.org/10.3390/su132212482

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Qualitative study reveals limited overall impact among local energy initiatives in the Netherlands, highlighting barriers across organizational, community, and public-private levels.

Success, Failure, and Impact of Local Energy Initiatives in The Netherlands

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Success, Failure, and Impact of Local Energy Initiatives in The Netherlands

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