IN3’s Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory (TURBA Lab) is pleased to invite you to the Seminar: «Local and European factors shaping the emergence and politics of energy communities», given by Marta Tramezzani, PhD student at the Centre for European studies and comparative politics (CEE) at Sciences Po Paris and visiting researcher at TURBA Lab.
This seminar is part of the Urban Transformation and Global Change Seminar Series.
Venue
Can Jaumandreu (Room 1)
Perú Street, 52
08018 Barcelona
Espanya
When
30/01/2023 12.00h
Organized by
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, IN3's Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory (TURBA Lab)
Program
Abstract
Citizen’s initiatives of production and consumption of energy have been growing since 1973. They increasingly obtained institutional recognition. In 2018, two European directives (2018/2001 and 2019/944) introduced the definition of “energy community”. Yet, there are open questions regarding these communities, that have to do with their economic model and democratic forms of organizations, their impact over the energy system (Debizet and Pappalardo, 2021), as well as equity implications.
In this research project, situated at the crossroad of the sociology of public action and the analysis of collective action (Dupuy, Halpern, 2009), I aim to investigate the “transformative power” (Wokuri, 2021) of energy cooperatives and communities at the local, national and European levels, both over public policies, as well as considering their impact on the organization of the energy market. I also untangle how those initiatives are shaped by the context in which they operate. Many studies on energy cooperatives show that their transformative power is limited by the State regulation and the market (Wokuri, 2021; Kooij et al. 2017; Capéllan-Pérez et al. 2018). However, those studies focus mainly on the national level. Complementing those perspectives, I develop a comparative analysis based on qualitative methods, in which I focus on the local and the European factors shaping these initiatives.
In this seminar, I will present the empirical results of my field research in Barcelona, as well as some theoretical questions and approaches that can be mobilized to understand the development of energy communities in European cities.
Marta Tramezzani
PhD student at the Centre for European studies and comparative politics (CEE) at Sciences Po Paris. Current visiting researcher at TURBA Lab.
Her research project is financed by the Municipality of Paris, where she works at the Directorate for the ecological transition and climate.
To take part in this seminar, please contact blancacb@uoc.edu.