1 On Public Acceptance Energy regulators & NGOs have a role to play Berlin, March 17 th 2016 Antonella Battaglini – Renewables Grid Initiative 1
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On Public Acceptance
Energy regulators & NGOs have a role to play Berlin, March 17th 2016
Antonella Battaglini – Renewables Grid Initiative
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1. Public acceptance is a dominant barrier to grid extension
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Delays
Lack of stakeholder acceptance
Inefficient/slow permitting
Decrease in energy security
Decarbonisation slowing down
Higher costs and investment risk
Political confusion
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2. Public opposition requires good practice exchange
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Mobile citizen office Field trips Info markets
Impressions from the BESTGRID project
Collection and dissemination of new solutions
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3. Regulators need to lead the energy transition
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§ Explain the need for grids
§ Model extreme scenarios
§ Regulatory recognition of costs for
§ Solid stakeholder engagement
§ Different technological solutions
§ Meaningful community compensation German BNetzA public dialogue event
What regulators can do to support public acceptance
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4. Policy makers influence public opinion
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Minister of the environment and Vice Prime Minister of Schleswig Holstein Robert Habeck “[…] The answer to this can’t be that we don’t build powerlines and wait that the electricity is somehow being delivered nonetheless.”**
Bavaria Prime Minister Seehofer on SuedLink “[...]Because we don‘t need it“*
*www.sueddeutsche.de, March 17, 2014 **mobil.fr-online.de, March 4, 2016
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5. NGOs are strong allies of the energy transition
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§ Explain climate/nature protection trade-off
§ Explain the role of grids § Help to improve projects § Help legitimise projects
§ Transparency on project need
§ A stage to express their views
§ Resources to engage
§ A forward-looking coherent energy policy
§ Nature protection § Prosumers/social justice
What they need, to do this What they ask for What NGOs can do
Impression from website BirdLife Lower-Saxony
Germanwatch BEST-GRID publication
Publication BirdLife Europe and EEB
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