Learning and diffusion of knowledge in clean energy communities

Medved, Primož (author), Golob, Urša (author), Kamin, Tanja (author)

Clean energy communities (CEC) represent emerging socio-technical systems that offer a suitable alternative to non-sustainable energy production and consumption. Thus, CECs cultivate new knowledge of clean energy use and diffuse it among their members as well as interested publics outside the CECs. This paper aims to contribute to the rather limited literature on the role of learning and knowledge in energy transitions in general and CECs’ knowledge circulation and learning in particular. The paper presents findings about the knowledge development and learning settings within CECs that provide the ways of cultivating knowledge within CECs and ways of disseminating this knowledge outside the CECs for potentially influencing wider social change. This research contributes to the energy transition literature by focusing on the overlooked perspective of learning and knowledge dissemination as an important part of a niche-innovation setting.

• Language: English
• Keywords: clean energy community, learning settings, diffusion of knowledge, energy transition, transactional learning theory, multi-level perspective, niche innovation, renewable energy
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: 16 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 46, art. 100701
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-144415
• UDC: 316.334
• ISSN on article: 2210-4224
• DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2023.100701
• COBISS.SI-ID: 141018115
• Publication date in RUL: 21.02.2023

MEDVED, Primož, GOLOB, Urša and KAMIN, Tanja, 2023, Learning and diffusion of knowledge in clean energy communities. Environmental innovation and societal transitions [online]. 2023. Vol. 46,  100701. [Accessed 18 May 2025]. DOI 10.1016/j.eist.2023.100701. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=144415

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Environmental innovation and societal transitions
• Publisher: Elsevier
• ISSN: 2210-4224
• COBISS.SI-ID: 519673369

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: skupnost čiste energije, skupnost, čista energija, učenje, širjenje znanja, energetski prehod, transakcijska teorija učenja, večnivojska perspektiva, nišna inovacija, obnovljiva energija

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: H2020
• Project number: 837752
• Name: New Clean Energy Communities in a Changing European Energy System
• Acronym: NEWCOMERS