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💡 Energy transitions require a fundamental re-imagining of our relationship with energy. 🌐 For over 20 years, the World Energy Council has used its World Energy Trilemma Framework to empower leaders and policymakers to better understand how they can effect change on the scale needed. 👉 Learn more at worldenergy.org/trilemma #WorldEnergyTrilemma #energytransition #energysystems #energyleadership #sustainableenergy

📢 Ana Luís de Sousa, Secretária Executiva da Associação Portuguesa da Energia e #FELPT Alumni, esteve na Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa a apresentar o Trilema Energético Português, o primeiro relatório desenvolvido pelos Future Energy Leaders Portugal! Já tiveram oportunidade de consultar o estudo baseado no trilema do World Energy Council? 🔎 https://lnkd.in/g5BEnTyZ Associação Portuguesa da Energia, World Energy Council, Mulheres na Energia

🔴Academic Insights - Week 23: Just transition or just transition? 🔴 This week features the following paper: 📃Title: Navigating tensions between rapid and just low-carbon transitions ✍ Authors: Peter Newell, Frank Geels, and Benjamin Sovacool 📅Year of Publication: 2022 ❓What is this paper about: This paper argues that energy transitions research needs to take into account trade-offs between the speed and the justice of the transition process. 🔎Key insights: The notion of a just transition has gained enormous relevance in the past years and any energy transition related activity needs to take justice aspects into account. Stronger engagement with citizens is one of the many pillars of a just transition processes, but a narrative which builds on the inclusion of all ‘relevant’ stakeholders can lead to a slower transition process. On the other hand, many people argue that a top-down energy transition, which is facilitated by big government, big banks, and big industry, may lead to a faster transition process, albeit lower inclusion and, hence, less justice. The authors therefore argue that the speed and justice dimensions of the energy transition are under tension. For example, fast transitions tend to inhibit energy justice, whereas very just transition processes may lead to a slower transition. However, the question remains if a balance between both can be struck so that a just and effective transition, which builds on participatory processes and impactful policies, can be struck. The authors therefore call researchers to explore this tension further and how those dilemmas can be approached. 🧠What I find interesting: The tension between just and rapid transitions is something that keeps me thinking quite a bit, hence the title ‘Just’ transition or ‘just’ transition. I therefore highly value this research which makes the importance to research this tension explicit. However, I believe that a just and effective transition requires more radical approaches which go beyond simple participation and policy discourses. Furthermore, I strongly believe that this framework could profit from including intergenerational justice considerations and (post-) colonial theories. Do you think that there are trade-offs between just and rapid energy transitions? And how can rapid & just transitions look like? Let me know in the comments! #AcademicInsights #Policy #Transformation Eindhoven University of Technology Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences at TU/e

World Energy Congress 2024 brought together leaders and doers from across the energy ecosystem, engaging across sectors, industries, technologies, and geographies with an ambitious goal to redesign energy for people and planet. The insightful discussions, leadership dialogues and diverse perspectives made it clear that managing successful global energy transitions is essential, not straightforward, and cannot be achieved by one nation or network alone.     Dive into the pivotal moments and profound insights from the event in our post-event report: https://lnkd.in/eT4nt3jh #WorldEnergyCongress #EnergyTransition #Sustainability #GlobalImpact #WEC2024 #PostEventReport

📢 We are happy to share the latest edition of our #EnergyBrief, where Thaddeus Anim-Somuah FIChemE, Damilola Adeyanju, and Ivo Wakounig reflect on their participation at the ministerial roundtable of the 26th World Energy Congress of the World Energy Council. 💡 Let us know what you think in the comments!

🔴Academic Insights - Week 22: 7 Functions to Rule them All 🔴 This week features the following paper: 📃Title: Functions of innovation systems: A new approach for analysing technological change ✍ Authors: Marko Hekkert, Roald Suurs, Simona Negro, Prof. Dr. Stefan Kuhlmann, and Ruud Smits 📅Year of Publication: 2007 ❓What is this paper about: This paper presents seven functions of innovation systems which can be used to analyse technological change.   🔎Key insights: A innovation system comprises different components, such as actors, technologies, institutions, and it emphasises that innovations are the result of individual and collective action. Innovation processes happen in systems and their trajectory depend on the interaction between its different components. Examples for innovation systems would be the car and solar PV industry, which have their own actors, institutions, rule, processes, and so forth. Innovation systems can be analysed by so-called functions, which (i) make different systems comparable; (ii) allow for a more systematic mapping of its dynamics; and (iii) help in the formulation of policies. This paper proposes a set of seven different functions which can describe an innovation system: (i) entrepreneurial activities; (ii) knowledge development; (iii) knowledge differentiation through networks; (iv) guidance of the search; (v) market formation; (vi) resource mobilisation; and (vii) creation of legitimacy. There is a great overlap between the different functions and highly influence each-other. The authors suggest that common triggers for sustainable change dynamics in innovation systems come from the functions ‘guidance of the search’ and ‘creation of legitimacy’. 🧠What I find interesting: I think that these functions provide a great starting point for attempts to understand innovation and system change dynamics. I like how the authors built their arguments on systems thinking and feedback dynamics, which underlines the complexity of innovation processes. I highly appreciate that the authors critically reflect on the usage of their functional and mechanistic language and emphasise that much of our understanding depends on our position, context, and constructed reality.    Which functions are you most interested in? Do you think that there are there could be other functions in an innovations system? Let me know in the comments! #AcademicInsights #Policy #Transformation Eindhoven University of Technology Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences at TU/e

We kijken terug op een zeer geslaagd symposium afgelopen week! De volle zaal werd meegenomen langs allerlei disciplines, van juridisch tot psychologisch en van engineering tot governance. Dit rijmt met het idee van Positive Energy Districts zelf: het is niet alleen een technische vraag, of een organisatorische. Allerlei verschillende uitdagingen moeten op hetzelfde moment worden opgelost om het tot een succes te brengen! En succes is dan ook niet alleen als het technisch allemaal werkt, maar vooral ook als iedereen mee kan doen. Wil je ook op de hoogte blijven van de belangrijkste conclusies en/of de presentaties ontvangen? Laat het weten in de comments! Hartelijk dank aan alle aanwezigen en in het bijzonder aan de sprekers! Musetta Blaauw Lise Jans Gretha Boels ♻️🍀 Greetje Bronsema Meis De Jongh Karin Hoogterp Joep Sanderink Cees Groot Marten van der Laan Lorenzo Squintani Wouter van Bolhuis Henk Brekhof Björn Hoops Matthijs van Wolferen Niek Hendriks Wouter Pronk Martijn de Vries en natuurlijk de organisatoren: Lea Diestelmeier en Ceciel Nieuwenhout

This week I had the immense pleasure to take part in the summer school ‘Transformative Research Unlocked’ of the Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN) & the Network of early career researchers in Sustainability Transitions (NEST) in the beautiful city of Rotterdam. In this week we dove deeper into topics such as research design and the use of mixed methods, how to co-produce knowledge, critical research perspectives, and our role as a transformative researcher. My main conclusions are: ➡ As a relatively new field (I am older than it!), transitions research is still in its infancy and in the process of theory creation. While there are already quite a few theories (Multi-Level Perspective, Transitions Management, Social Tipping Point Dynamics,…), they still need to be widely tested and fine-tuned. ➡ Transitions research is not only about transition processes but about transitioning research too! Our current way to create and think research (objectivism, positivism, top-down, extractivism,…) is ill-equipped to provide valuable knowledge which helps us deal with the current and upcoming tumultuous times. We need to move towards research practices which embrace positionality, values, engagement, critical realism, de-colonialism, and build on new (jargon incoming!) ontologies, epistemologies, axiologies,… ➡ Methods and methodologies need to redefined and redesigned in order to be able to find meaningful research outcomes which can contribute to transformative change. This is very much in line with the previous points and more experimentation with existing and new methods is much needed. I was very inspired by how art-based methods can support transitions research and lead to more nuanced understanding of transition processes. ➡ Critical thinking and the examination of unjust power relations have a crucial role to play in examining transition processes. Particularly when it comes to the systemic arrangements which brought about the need to transition it is incredibly important to analyse the point of departure and the reasons which led to the disfunctional system. ➡ Engaging in transition processes as a researchers can be an important pillar in transitions research. This relates back to the point of a redefined understanding of research and making our results more applicable and usable. Researchers are not observers but part of a transition process. I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to all the speakers and organisers, such as Derk Loorbach, Julia Wittmayer, Marta Garcia Escobar, Floor Alkemade, Jonathan Koehler, Bonno Pel, Ying Syuan Huang, and so many more, and DRIFT for transition and Design Impact Transition (DIT) platform for providing the platform. Furthermore, I would like to thank all the participants for their active engagement, interesting discussions, and fun time. #summerschool #transitionsresearch #insights

Gisteren stonden onze collega’s Alexander Jacobs en Joep Sanderink op het podium van het GroBusiness Ondernemersfestival in Scheemda. Veel bedrijven en bedrijventerreinen willen graag verduurzamen maar worden daarin gehinderd door netcongestie. Dat is jammer, want krapte op het elektriciteitsnet hoeft ondernemers niet te belemmeren in hun ambities om te verduurzamen, uit te breiden of te vestigen. In Noord-Holland Noord werken Alexander en Joep samen met Ontwikkelingsbedrijf Noord-Holland Noord (ONHN) en Provincie Noord-Holland in het werkprogramma ‘Bedrijventerreinen, Energiehubs van de Toekomst’. De mogelijke oplossingsrichtingen bij transportschaarste en het stappenplan om tot maatwerkoplossingen te komen deelden ze gisteren op het podium met de ondernemers die het festival bezochten. Een interessante presentatie, die hopelijk ondernemers inspireert in het verduurzamen van hun energiehuishouding. 📸 Stella Dekker #diversofchange #verduurzamen #duurzamebedrijventerreinen #netcongestie

I recently contributed to this article with my colleague Jon Chadwick published by Economist Impact. While energy suppliers are fundamental to a successful transition, everyone has a role to play and we must move beyond pledges and plans to catalyse action. Urgent priorities include ramped-up investments in clean energy infrastructure, such as battery storage, solar parks and hydrogen pipelines. Those leading the way in this shift are already seeing perks like stronger grids, lower costs, and better sustainability. Take a look at this article for more on the role organisations have to play as catalysts to the energy transition. https://lnkd.in/dcU4PeTX