![]() ![]() This has produced awareness and social behaviours and social consciousness that creates space to think about other societal problems. Overtime, the organisational form of the energy community has been established into… a cooperative association where everyone has the right to vote and take decisions or at least contribute to them, and as a result… They meet once a month or once every two months for a gathering to discuss updates for the community not only as a result but also as an event with food and drinks, to create bonds not only on the energy level but also on the personal level. The energy community we have facilitated through the Lightness project, and has since taken its own form, is held together by the shared values of… the energy transition, respect for the future, empowering people, sharing and caring, understanding, and sharing time together, Thereby… residents work together to change their behaviour for the greater good, people have more confidence of each other, and they have found a sense of responsibility to take care of the island and the people living on it. We are here to celebrate how far we have come with the diffusion of energy communities, thanks to the success of the Lightness project as a lighthouse for Europe. It is June 2030, and we have reconvened in the renowned energy-positive Island of Sardinia. Enjoy reading one of our visions for energy communities in the future… ![]() In this booklet we have written down the collective stories by using one piece of each individual story to create a whole. These were shared in groups to listen to each other’s different visions of the future. Each partner filled in their own story, reflecting the pilot site they are involved in. The exercise was organised by asking partners to create their own story by continuing prose on the elements of an energy community, namely, 1) values, 2) organisational structure, 3) technology and infrastructure, 4) regulations, 5) resources, 6) challenges, 7) how these challenges are overcome. The purpose of the exercise was to evoke each partner’s ideal vision of what Energy Communities should look like. Due to our location at the time, the story is set in the future energy neutral island of Sardinia. Written by the EU Horizon 2020 Lightness Project Consortiumĭuring the Lightness General Assembly in Cagliari, DuneWorks carried out a story writing exercise with the multi-disciplinary partners of the consortium. StoryTelling in Lightness_ Collective stories on the future of Energy Communities in 2030 Studies have dealt with stories about transitioning energy from fossil fuels to renewables, transitioning transportation, and of course, the ‘story’ of the current climate emergency. In the last few years, storytelling has also generated significant attention in the context of energy research. ![]() Within storytelling research, the following aspects have been particularly well explored: use of storytelling in communication and persuasion problem-framing and, more recently, participatory engagement and vision building. Sometimes it’s easy to get lost in thinking about short term actions, causing us to ignore the greater vision. ![]() As a playful methodology, storytelling can undoubtedly be a valuable additional tool for Energy Communities where there is a desire for stakeholder engagement, and appetite to tailor technological and social innovation to different actors.īy looking to the future, storytelling allows to set a point in the horizon to work towards. Storytelling has the potential of solving complex challenges and facilitating collaborative processes, by enabling participants to step into others’ perspectives, keeping hold of diversity, and the use of ‘we’ in stories leading to concrete future initiatives. Thus, creative methods that open multi-actors collaboration are rarely used. However, the process of driving needs and challenges and designing the path to approach them tends to be one-sided discipline experts. Local energy initiatives and policy agendas require envisioning future scenarios that are desirable for a diverse range of stakeholders. ![]()
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