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dc.contributor.authorBetz, Regina-
dc.contributor.authorWinzer, Christian-
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-21T06:37:18Z-
dc.date.available2023-07-21T06:37:18Z-
dc.date.issued2022-
dc.identifier.isbn978-91-988270-1-9de_CH
dc.identifier.isbn978-91-988270-0-2de_CH
dc.identifier.issn2001-7960de_CH
dc.identifier.urihttps://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/28316-
dc.description.abstractThe climate crisis needs urgent solutions and potential agents of change are cooperatives, citizen initiatives, start-ups etc., which form social innovation initiatives. Social innovations in energy transition (SIEs) are defined as “(combinations of) ideas, objects and/or actions that change social relations and involve new ways of doing, thinking and/or organising energy. ” (Wittmayer et al. 2020, iv). This is how the H2020 project SONNET defines SIEs, on which this paper is based on. The aim of the paper is to illustrate how challenging the evaluation of the success of those diverse types of SIEs is and what approaches were and can be applied. Evaluating whether SIEs are successful means to understand whether SIE-initiatives have been successful in achieving goals and which types of SIEs are more successful in achieving certain goals than others. We differentiated between the aims held by SIE-initiatives themselves (SIE-aims), aims which are shared by the EU and SIEs (shared-aims), and aims of the European Energy Union which are not shared by SIE’s (EU-aims). The aims of the SIE-initiatives were based on literature review and a survey among the empirically studied SIEs in SONNET. We find that many of the studied SIE-initiatives do not monitor their impacts as resources are scarce. Some of the impacts occur in people’s mind (such as impacts on “thinking”), and even the impacts which can and have been monitored are hard to compare across different initiatives, due to their diversity. Therefore, our surveys only capture the perceived contributions of SIEs to the different goals. Based on the surveys we find that SIE-initiatives achieved significantly higher contributions towards SIE-aims than towards EU-aims or shared-aims and that the perceived contribution is stronger for those aims with higher importance. The SIE-aims with the highest contributions were “improve social acceptance of renewable energy production” and “strengthen local community”. The shared-aims with the highest contributions were “increased renewables production” and “reduced greenhouse gas emissions”. The perceived contribution towards other EU-aims or shared-aims was rather low. Looking at the different SIE-types, in general SIE-initiatives focusing on “Thinking”-type of activities seem to achieve slightly lower contributions for many of the aims we assessed than the other types of activities (“Doing”, “Organizing”). Regarding the social relation, contributions towards shared aims were significantly higher in case of SIE-initiatives working on a “Competition” setting, and significantly lower in case of SIE-initiatives that were in “Conflict” than for the other types of social relations (i.e. “Cooperation” and “Exchange”). Our conclusion was that not one evaluation method fits all SIEs and we explored in a workshop how innovative approaches such as media analysis (news databases, websites, social media) and web tracking (google analytics/facebook) might be used for future evaluations of SIEs.de_CH
dc.language.isoende_CH
dc.publishereceeede_CH
dc.rightsLicence according to publishing contractde_CH
dc.subjectSocial innovationde_CH
dc.subjectImpact evaluationde_CH
dc.subjectCommunity energy systemde_CH
dc.subject.ddc333.79: Energiede_CH
dc.titleSocial innovation in energy transition : evaluation challenges and innovative solutionsde_CH
dc.typeKonferenz: Paperde_CH
dcterms.typeTextde_CH
zhaw.departementSchool of Management and Lawde_CH
zhaw.organisationalunitZentrum für Energie und Umwelt (CEE)de_CH
zhaw.conference.detailseceee 2022 Summer Study, Hyères, France, 6-11 June 2022de_CH
zhaw.funding.euNode_CH
zhaw.originated.zhawYesde_CH
zhaw.pages.end557de_CH
zhaw.pages.start551de_CH
zhaw.publication.statuspublishedVersionde_CH
zhaw.publication.reviewNot specifiedde_CH
zhaw.title.proceedingseceee Summer Study Proceedingsde_CH
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zhaw.display.portraitYesde_CH
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Betz, R., & Winzer, C. (2022). Social innovation in energy transition : evaluation challenges and innovative solutions [Conference paper]. Eceee Summer Study Proceedings, 551–557.
Betz, R. and Winzer, C. (2022) ‘Social innovation in energy transition : evaluation challenges and innovative solutions’, in eceee Summer Study Proceedings. eceee, pp. 551–557.
R. Betz and C. Winzer, “Social innovation in energy transition : evaluation challenges and innovative solutions,” in eceee Summer Study Proceedings, 2022, pp. 551–557.
BETZ, Regina und Christian WINZER, 2022. Social innovation in energy transition : evaluation challenges and innovative solutions. In: eceee Summer Study Proceedings. Conference paper. eceee. 2022. S. 551–557. ISBN 978-91-988270-1-9
Betz, Regina, and Christian Winzer. 2022. “Social Innovation in Energy Transition : Evaluation Challenges and Innovative Solutions.” Conference paper. In Eceee Summer Study Proceedings, 551–57. eceee.
Betz, Regina, and Christian Winzer. “Social Innovation in Energy Transition : Evaluation Challenges and Innovative Solutions.” Eceee Summer Study Proceedings, eceee, 2022, pp. 551–57.


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