Transforming Regions
Development of a methodology to support decision-making on regional energy strategies (RES).
Goal
Development of a methodological framework for the regional energy transition, based on practice, using existing and developing new tools, methods and practices.
Description
The project contributes to the energy transition in the following way:
- Development of a comprehensive and standardized approach to analyze and optimize the transition to a carbon-neutral energy system at the regional level, based on combined local and regional data on specific locations and available options. This provides insight and support at every stage of the decision-making process for key stakeholders from a regional perspective.
- Validation of this approach for specific cases (living labs) in two different settings: the built environment and industry. In these settings, detailed data collection takes place from realistic situations, experience gained (test sites and projects), and potential future performance of technologies and measures.
Our role
We are the lead partner for the distribution subsidy in this project, and we monitor and support the progress. We report on this to the subsidy provider (Province of Groningen), and support the dissemination of project results to stakeholders.
Deliverables / reports
Industrial sectors are often organized into regional clusters. The Netherlands has five energy-intensive regional industrial clusters (RICs), all of which face ambitious CO2 emission reduction targets. We investigated how to model the decarbonization of RICs as a multi-actor decision problem. Our work serves as a starting point for incorporating a multi-actor perspective into industrial decarbonization. We present both a set-point and a single-point solution concept based on a stylized example of a RIC decision-making problem.
Regional energy transition
- Decision-making in regional energy transition: inventory of existing models, tools and methods (report) read
- Vision decision-making energy system in transition (report) > read
- Institutional innovation for the regional energy transition (report)> read
- Regional Energy Transition: Exploring the significance for the Dutch situation (working document)> read
- Islands as Playing and Breeding Grounds for Incumbents, Entrepreneurial Technologists, Policymakers, and Engaged Citizens: The Case of Energy Transition on Ameland (article) > read
Industry
- Decision making on regional energy transition in industrial clusters (report)> read
- Multi actor decision models for transformation of industrial clusters (working paper)> read
- Support for informed decision making on the energy transition of industrial clusters (report)> read
Built environment
- Estrac Transforming Regions: Built Environment (Synthesis Report) > learn here
- Supporting municipal energy transition decision-making (report) > read
- Evaluation study on the energy transition for a sustainable Ameland > read
- Neighbors Gives Energy (case study)> read
- Energy community workshops : the charrette project in Middag-Humsterland (case study, report)> read
- Local energy planning in the built environment: an analysis of model characteristics (published article)> read
- Social factors in the neighborhood approach: Paddepoel (case study, report)> read
- Climbing up the ladder to a sustainable heat transition (report) > read
Partners
Next to New Energy Coalition TNO, University of Groningen, Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, EBN, NAM, Gasunie & GasTerra participated in this research project.
Disclaimer
Transforming Regions is one of five projects supported by ESTRAC (Energy Systems Transition Centre), a visionary umbrella organisation that promotes energy transition research in Noord-Nederland. This page reflects solely the author's views, and the funding agency is not responsible for any use of the information it contains.
