ENABLE.EU
| Enabling the Energy Union through understanding the drivers of individual and collective energy choices in Europe | 
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The Energy Union Framework Strategy laid out on 25 February 2015 has embraced a citizens-oriented energy transition based on a low-carbon transformation of the energy system. The success of the energy transition pillar in the Energy Union will hinge upon the social acceptability of the necessary reforms and on the public engagement in conceptualizing, planning, and implementing low carbon energy transitions. The ENABLE.EU project will aim to define the key determinants of individual and collective energy choices in three key consumption areas - transportation, heating & cooling, and electricity – and in the shift to presumption (users-led initiatives of decentralised energy production and trade). |
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The project will also investigate the interrelations between individual and collective energy choices and their impact on regulatory, technological and investment decisions. The analysis will be based on national household and business surveys in 11 countries, as well as research-area-based comparative case studies. ENABLE.EU aims to also strengthen the knowledge base for energy transition patterns by analysing existing public participation mechanisms, energy cultures, social mobilisation, scientists’ engagement with citizens. Gender issues and concerns regarding energy vulnerability and affluence will be given particular attention. The project will also develop participatory-driven scenarios for the development of energy choices until 2050 by including the findings from the comparative sociological research in the E3ME model created by Cambridge Econometrics and used extensively by DG Energy. The findings from the modelling exercise will feed into the formulation of strategic and policy recommendations for overcoming the gaps in the social acceptability of the energy transition and the Energy Union plan. Results will be disseminated to relevant national and EU-level actors as well as to the general public.
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Start date: November 2016 |
End date: October 2019 |
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Call: H2020-LCE-2016-2017 submitted for H2020-LCE-2016-RES-CCS-RIA |
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Partners in ENABLE.EU: |
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ISTITUTO DI STUDI PER L'INTEGRAZIONE DEI SISTEMI SC (ISINNOVA) – Coordinator NOTRE EUROPE - INSTITUT JACQUES DELORS ASSOCIATION (JDI) CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRACY (CSD) CICERO SENTER KLIMAFORSKNING STIFTELSE (CICERO) ASOCIACION BC3 BASQUE CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE - KLIMA ALDAKETA IKERGAI (BC3) CAMBRIDGE ECONOMETRICS LIMITED (CE) REKK ENERGIAPIACI TANACSADO KFT (REKK) EKONOMSKI INSTITUT AD BEOGRAD (EI) WESTFAELISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAET MUENSTER (WWU) CENTRE FOR GLOBAL STUDIES STRATEGY XXI (CGS21) POLSKI INSTYTUT SPRAW MIEDZYNARODOWYCH (PISM) LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE (GRI-LSE) |
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Key people involved in BC3: |
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Dr. Ibon Galarraga |
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ENABLE.EU website:http://www.enable-eu.com/ |
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ENABLE.EU has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration under Grant Agreement no. 727524. |
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