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2. Outline
• Context
• Public par*cipa*on and RES
• Obstacles
• RES – weakest link…
• Infrastructural blindness
• EU Policy panacea
• Transmission network – public par*cipa*on
• Conclude…no good solu*ons: only bad or
worse
4. Public par*cipa*on and RES
What?
• Democracy
• Ci*zen par*cipa*on
• Who par*cipates?
Why?
• RES characteris*cs: abundance,
dispersal, variability
• Independence and economic benefit
• Integra*on of isolated regions
How?
• RED 2009/28/EC
• Decentraliza*on
• Independent producers
• Simple authoriza*on
source: Lee et al 2012
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