Outliers or Frontrunners? Exploring the (Self-) Governance of Community- Owned Sustainable Energy in Scotland and the Netherlands

摘要: Community owned renewable energy initiatives are the emergent and self-organized arrangements where communities become both producers suppliers of energy. Cases community developments form Texel (Netherlands), Undy Urgha (UK) empirical grounds that demonstrate this capacity. As highly desirable may seem, they face many enablers. However, also confronted with various tensions, as identified in chapter. A closer look governance space which these operate, reveals tensions opportunities span from socio-cultural, political, technological axes. These outliers frontrunners a sustainable transition: create new forms institutions, challenge even benefiting to them instruments, dare uptake risks seize opportunities, operate outside demarcated institutional space. constitute local deserves be explored.