Dr Eimear Heaslip, NUI Galway post-doctoral researcher for the ENERGISE project, recently published a briefing note from her PhD research. The briefing note, titled: “Community Energy Planning in Inis Oírr: Revealing our community's capacity to plan for our energy future” reported on the findings and methodologies developed in her PhD research. The PhD itself fused social scientific and engineering techniques to enable collaborative and co-creative energy planning with the community in Inis Oírr island in the West of Ireland. This briefing note provides an overview for communities, government and civil society actors interested in learning about experimental approaches to undertaking inclusive and collaborative community energy planning.
The DOI for the briefing note is: DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1489058