Sanne Akerboom
Biographic Data
| ID | 6903728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sanne Akerboom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Akerboom |
| SIGNATURE | AKERBOOM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0001-7753 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2027 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Empowerment in EU energy law
The EU advances consumer empowerment as one of the pillars of energy legislation, aiming to transfer ownership of the energy transition to citizens. Rights and instruments have been introduced that offer citizens new ways of engaging with energy. However, EU energy legislation lacks a clear conceptual understanding of empowerment, which is required for crafting fit-for-purpose policy measures. We aim to provide a structured overview of current ar…
From consumers to pioneers
While energy communities working on electricity provision have been extensively studied, thermal energy communities (TECs) focusing on bringing district heating (DH) systems to decarbonise heat systems in buildings have been relatively under-researched. This study addresses this gap by presenting the first comprehensive examination of key factors influencing the emergence and development of TEC projects in Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. T…
A public values perspective on energy justice
Energy justice literature provides no clear indications on why energy justice is sometimes not safeguarded in decision-making processes. What is needed is a theoretical understanding of how decision-makers balance different considerations. Drawing on public values theory, we build a theoretical lens for understanding decision-making in the energy transition. Through this lens, we recognize that decision-makers can (i) altogether overlook justice,…
Overlooked, misunderstood, or sidelined
Energy systems need to evolve to manage the rapid increase in distributed and intermittent renewable energy sources and growing peak loads. Smart local energy systems (SLESs) offer a promising approach by decentralizing and digitalizing energy management. However, SLESs risk exacerbating pre-existing disparities, because socioeconomically disadvantaged groups cannot participate in SLESs and therefore miss out on the benefits. One approach to addr…
Renewable energy communities
It is crucial that the energy transition enfolds democratically, to increase its legitimacy and improve its outcomes. Although practitioners and scholars increasingly point to renewable energy communities (RECs) as legitimate agents for governing a democratic energy transition, RECs' democratic practices are poorly understood, which challenges assumptions about their legitimacy. We therefore analyzed how and to what extent democratic legitimacy i…
Government versus the people – The mismatch in value use to assess solar farms in the Netherlands
In energy projects, especially in controversial ones, two trajectories of assessment can be distinguished: a formal trajectory, embedded in the legal system, and an informal trajectory, residing in the public discourse. Often, there is a fundamental mismatch between these two trajectories. The informal trajectory arises because local residents perceive certain shortcomings in values used to assess the project in the formal trajectory. In this pap…
Beyond technology
This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a systematic horizon scanning process, which utilised the expert knowledge of 85 researchers from the field with diverse discip…
Beyond technology
This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a systematic horizon scanning process, which utilised the expert knowledge of 85 researchers from the field with diverse discip…
A public values perspective on energy justice
Energy justice literature provides no clear indications on why energy justice is sometimes not safeguarded in decision-making processes. What is needed is a theoretical understanding of how decision-makers balance different considerations. Drawing on public values theory, we build a theoretical lens for understanding decision-making in the energy transition. Through this lens, we recognize that decision-makers can (i) altogether overlook justice,…
Overlooked, misunderstood, or sidelined
Energy systems need to evolve to manage the rapid increase in distributed and intermittent renewable energy sources and growing peak loads. Smart local energy systems (SLESs) offer a promising approach by decentralizing and digitalizing energy management. However, SLESs risk exacerbating pre-existing disparities, because socioeconomically disadvantaged groups cannot participate in SLESs and therefore miss out on the benefits. One approach to addr…
Renewable energy communities
It is crucial that the energy transition enfolds democratically, to increase its legitimacy and improve its outcomes. Although practitioners and scholars increasingly point to renewable energy communities (RECs) as legitimate agents for governing a democratic energy transition, RECs' democratic practices are poorly understood, which challenges assumptions about their legitimacy. We therefore analyzed how and to what extent democratic legitimacy i…
Government versus the people – The mismatch in value use to assess solar farms in the Netherlands
In energy projects, especially in controversial ones, two trajectories of assessment can be distinguished: a formal trajectory, embedded in the legal system, and an informal trajectory, residing in the public discourse. Often, there is a fundamental mismatch between these two trajectories. The informal trajectory arises because local residents perceive certain shortcomings in values used to assess the project in the formal trajectory. In this pap…
Beyond technology
This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a systematic horizon scanning process, which utilised the expert knowledge of 85 researchers from the field with diverse discip…
Government versus the people – The mismatch in value use to assess solar farms in the Netherlands
In energy projects, especially in controversial ones, two trajectories of assessment can be distinguished: a formal trajectory, embedded in the legal system, and an informal trajectory, residing in the public discourse. Often, there is a fundamental mismatch between these two trajectories. The informal trajectory arises because local residents perceive certain shortcomings in values used to assess the project in the formal trajectory. In this pap…
A public values perspective on energy justice
Energy justice literature provides no clear indications on why energy justice is sometimes not safeguarded in decision-making processes. What is needed is a theoretical understanding of how decision-makers balance different considerations. Drawing on public values theory, we build a theoretical lens for understanding decision-making in the energy transition. Through this lens, we recognize that decision-makers can (i) altogether overlook justice,…
Overlooked, misunderstood, or sidelined
Energy systems need to evolve to manage the rapid increase in distributed and intermittent renewable energy sources and growing peak loads. Smart local energy systems (SLESs) offer a promising approach by decentralizing and digitalizing energy management. However, SLESs risk exacerbating pre-existing disparities, because socioeconomically disadvantaged groups cannot participate in SLESs and therefore miss out on the benefits. One approach to addr…
Renewable energy communities
It is crucial that the energy transition enfolds democratically, to increase its legitimacy and improve its outcomes. Although practitioners and scholars increasingly point to renewable energy communities (RECs) as legitimate agents for governing a democratic energy transition, RECs' democratic practices are poorly understood, which challenges assumptions about their legitimacy. We therefore analyzed how and to what extent democratic legitimacy i…
From consumers to pioneers
While energy communities working on electricity provision have been extensively studied, thermal energy communities (TECs) focusing on bringing district heating (DH) systems to decarbonise heat systems in buildings have been relatively under-researched. This study addresses this gap by presenting the first comprehensive examination of key factors influencing the emergence and development of TEC projects in Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. T…
Empowerment in EU energy law
The EU advances consumer empowerment as one of the pillars of energy legislation, aiming to transfer ownership of the energy transition to citizens. Rights and instruments have been introduced that offer citizens new ways of engaging with energy. However, EU energy legislation lacks a clear conceptual understanding of empowerment, which is required for crafting fit-for-purpose policy measures. We aim to provide a structured overview of current ar…
Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (5 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Economic Justice (2 works) · Energy (signal processing (2 works)