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Energy Demand Challenges in Europe Implications for policy, planning and practice Edited by Frances Fahy Gary Goggins Charlotte Jensen Energy Demand Challenges in Europe Frances Fahy · Gary Goggins · Charlotte Jensen Editors Energy Demand Challenges in Europe Implications for policy, planning and practice Editors Frances Fahy Gary Goggins School of Geography and Archaeology School of Geography and Archaeology and Ryan Institute and Ryan Institute National University of Ireland Galway National University of Ireland Galway Galway, Ireland Galway, Ireland Charlotte Jensen Department of Planning Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark ISBN 978-3-030-20338-2 ISBN 978-3-030-20339-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20339-9 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. This book is an open access publication. 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This Palgrave Pivot imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland CONTENTS 1 An Introduction to Energy Demand Challenges in Europe 1 Frances Fahy and Gary Goggins 2 Framing the Sustainable Energy Challenge and Implications for Solutions 9 Charlotte Jensen, Inge Røpke, Gary Goggins and Frances Fahy 3 The Impact of German Energy Policy on Household Energy Use 21 Eoin Grealis, Annika-Kathrin Musch and Henrike Rau 4 The Role of Households in Danish Energy Policy: Visions and Contradictions 35 Inge Røpke, Charlotte Jensen and Maj-Britt Quitzau 5 Reducing Residential Carbon Emissions in Ireland: Challenges and Policy Responses 47 Gary Goggins, Frances Fahy and Eimear Heaslip v vi CONTENTS 6 UK Responses to the Energy Challenge: Dominant Framings and New Imaginaries 59 Marfuga Iskandarova and Audley Genus 7 Turning Off the Gas Tap: Sustainable Energy Policies, Practices and Prospects in the Netherlands 71 Julia Backhaus 8 The Energy Challenge in Hungary: A Need for More Complex Approaches 83 Edina Vadovics 9 Slovenia: Focus on Energy Effciency, Community Energy Projects and Energy Poverty 95 Lidija Živčič and Tomislav Tkalec 10 From Effciency to Suffciency: Insights from the Swiss Energy Transition 105 Laure Dobigny and Marlyne Sahakian 11 Sustainable Energy Consumption and Energy Poverty: Challenges and Trends in Bulgaria 115 Marko Hajdinjak and Desislava Asenova 12 Finnish Energy Policy in Transition 127 Eva Heiskanen, Senja Laakso and Kaisa Matschoss 13 Conclusion: Comparing Household Energy Use Across Europe—Uncovering Opportunities for Sustainable Transformation 137 Patrick Naef, Marlyne Sahakian and Gary Goggins Index 153 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Desislava Asenova works as an analyst at the Applied Research and Communications Fund, Bulgaria since 2013. She is part of the ‘Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Programme’ and has been involved in international research projects in various areas such as sustainable innovations, social innovations, public engagement in policymaking, and bi-regional STI cooperation and policy dialogue in the Black Sea region. She is currently working on projects related to energy systems and energy conscious behaviour of households. Julia Backhaus is a doctoral student at the International Centre for Integrated assessment and Sustainable development (ICIS) at Maastricht University. Working on sustainable energy and consumption topics at the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands and at Maastricht University over the past ten years, Backhaus has published on subjects ranging from social innovation and sustainable food practices to energy policies and a refuelling infrastructure for hydrogen-fuelled cars. Her Ph.D. research investigates actors’ assumptions about how change towards sustainabil- ity will come or can be brought about. She is a founding and still active member of the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI) Europe. Laure Dobigny is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Sociological Research at the University of Geneva, specialised in the socio-anthropology of energy. Her research interests centre around the social construction and social dimension of energy, especially linked to vii viii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS the energy transition (e.g. energy communities, renewable energy use and representations, sociotechnical systems, the relationship between production and consumption in the daily energy use, household con- sumption and self-consumption, among others). Frances Fahy is Senior Lecturer in Geography at the National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway and Lead Coordinator of the European H2020-funded ENERGISE project. Her research interests are in environmental planning and sustainability. Audley Genus is Professor of Innovation and Technology Management at Kingston University. He holds a Ph.D. in technology policy and inno- vation from Aston University. Audley’s current research concerns the contribution of users and diverse organisations to innovation in and growth of the renewable energy sector, and problems of institutional change relating to sustainable consumption and production. His latest book is Social Innovation and Sustainable Consumption, co-edited with several colleagues from the Horizon 2020-funded ENERGISE project and others and published in 2018 by Routledge. Gary Goggins is ENERGISE project manager at NUI Galway. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Sociology and Sustainability Studies, M.A. in Community Development and a degree in Business Studies. His research interests include sustainable consumption and sociotechnical change. Eoin Grealis is an environmental economist and current member of scientifc staff at the Department of Geography at LMU Munich. He received a B.A. Int. (Law and Economics) and an M.A. in Economic and Environmental Modelling from NUI Galway. After working as an energy policy analyst with the Irish Wind Energy Association, Eoin con- ducted Ph.D. research at NUI Maynooth on Irish agricultural emissions. He subsequently held a Postdoctoral position with the Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit (SEMRU) at NUI Galway where he helped develop the Bio-Economy Input-Output model (BIO) for Ireland. He has also published on the spatial distribution of farm incomes, farm via- bility and policy reform. Marko Hajdinjak is a senior analyst at Applied Research and Communications Fund, Bulgaria. He has 20 years of experience in par- ticipation in and management of international research projects. His NOTES ON CONTRIBUTOrs ix main research interests include social-cultural aspects of domestic energy consumption and energy effciency; social innovations; responsibility in research and innovation; socio-economic impacts of science and research; and safe and responsible use of digital technologies among children and young people. Eimear Heaslip completed her B.Arch. (HONS) in Architecture at University College Dublin, graduating in 2007. In 2012 Eimear com- pleted an M.Sc. in Environmental systems in GMIT and received the GMIT ‘President’s Forty Year Scholarship’ to undertake her transdisci- plinary Ph.D., which fused social scientifc and engineering techniques to develop a technical energy plan with the case study community in Inis Oírr. Eimear is currently working as a Postdoctoral Researcher on the ENERGISE (European Network for Research, Good Practice and Innovation for Sustainable Energy) project and as an Assistant Lecturer in Environmental Planning based in the School of Geography at NUI Galway. Eva Heiskanen is Professor of sustainable consumption at University of Helsinki, Finland. Research interests: the adoption and impacts of new technology in society, sustainable consumption policies, evaluation and learning from interventions and experimentation. Marfuga Iskandarova is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Small Business Research Centre, at Kingston Business School. Her doctoral research at the University of Exeter focused on development of renewa- ble energy technologies in the UK. Marfuga’s research