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New report: Community visioning for just, clean energy futures in Europe
Shared Geen Deal
Jun
12
2025
Posted: 11:37 IST
A new report from SHARED GREEN DEAL (Horizon 2020) presents the findings from four year-long community visioning social experiments. These explored energy futures in four locations in Europe: Bełchatów (Poland), Granada (Spain), Jaywick (the UK), and Ærø (Denmark).
Local authorities and non-governmental organisations designed and ran the experiments in each location, bringing together diverse actors to imagine desirable energy futures grounded in local needs. They used creative facilitation, encouraged dialogue, and focused on what mattered most to participants about energy. The workshops strengthened existing energy communities and laid the groundwork for new ones (Granada), resulted in the launch of a community-based energy hub (Jaywick), and demonstrated the importance of non-governmental organisations and women in the transition away from the coal industry (Bełchatów).
These results suggest that community visioning can enable wider engagement in just, clean energy transitions through fostering both dialogue and collective action. The report provides recommendations for those who wish to undertake community visioning as a tool to engage people in energy decision-making.
The report is co-authored by Emily Gray and Professor Frances Fahy from the University of Galway, Dr Melanie Rohse from Anglia Ruskin University, and Christophe Jost from CEE Bankwatch Network.
