Speaker details of Frank Pierie

Presentatie gehouden tijdens Conference Energy & Society, te Krakow, June 4-6 2014, over: how Dutch local communities transform centralized energy systems.

Providing energy services to prosumer communities.

Recent years have shown the emergence of numerous local energy initiatives (prosumer communities) in the Netherlands. Many of them have set the goal to establish a local and sustainable energy provision on a not-for-profit basis. In this study we carried out exploratory case studies on a number of Dutch …

Clusters development takes place in an increasingly changing and complex context where global and local developments are interconnected. Various regional and innovation studies recognize the need for place-based studies to include the larger context in which clusters and regions are found. Interest and …

Abstract

The grassroots of sustainable transition: a generic approach to describe local energy initiatives in the Northern Netherlands.IST conference, Zürich, 19-21 June 2013.

Conferentie over duurzaam bouwen, energie en renovatie

There is growing realisation amongst local communities that the organizations and societies within which they live and work need to become more sustainable in order to secure their social, environmental and economic futures (Coyle 2011, Müller et al. 2011). The underlying motivations vary but are often …