Achieving international climate and energy goals will require a rapid and profound transformation of our energy system. Considering this process affects people all over the world, public engagement is crucial to ensure that society’s views, needs and concerns are considered and that a truly just and inclusive energy transition is pursued.

To facilitate this, the Engage4Energy Project focused on creating guidance on how public engagement can be promoted within the context of building renewable energy and grid infrastructure.

Over the past years and decades, many participation and involvement processes and practices have been developed, but no comprehensive overview of factors for success/failure exists. The Task hopes to start filling this information gap by evaluating past and current participatory actions and drawing lessons for effective engagement, including useful formats and degrees of involvement.

The researchers behind this task aim to provide transferable and actionable guidance for future engagement activities done by project developers and public authorities.

Project goals

RGI and the Institute for European Energy and Climate Policy (IEECP) led the UsersTCP Task “Public Engagement for Energy Infrastructure” – aimed at: