Micro-hydro power in the UK: The role of communities in an emerging energy resource
Micro-hydro power in the UK: The role of communities in an emerging energy resource
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英国的微型水力发电：社区在新兴能源中的作用
DOI：
10.1016/j.enpol.2013.12.046
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发表时间：
2014
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影响因子：
9
通讯作者：
Carly M. Maynard
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作者：
L. Bracken;H. Bulkeley;Carly M. Maynard
围绕微型水力发电的研究集中在技术方面，对社会组织和环境影响的了解有限。我们考察了人们和组织参与微型水电的方式，以此作为促进英国可再生能源政策雄心的一种手段。我们将专业知识的使用和竞争方式放在首位。对英国的微型水电计划进行了基于网络的审查，并对英格兰北部的两个计划进行了详细的评估，以确定专门知识和争议如何在社区计划中发挥作用。结果表明，微型水电在英国迅速扩张。所有权/控制权高度“以社区为基础”。到目前为止，围绕微水电的研究一直以技术方法为主，方案以硬件为基础。我们对Walker和Cass(2007)对可再生能源发展的分类提出了第三个维度：环境维度。我们认为，微型水电的这一层面至关重要，既包括资源的变现程度，也包括它可能引发争议的方式，特别是关于如何使用和评估专业知识的问题。
Research around micro-hydro power is focused on technical aspects with limited understanding of the social organisation and environmental implications. We examine the ways in which micro-hydro is engaged by people and organisations as a means of contributing to the UK's policy ambition for renewable energy. We bring to the fore the way in which expertise is used and contested. A web based review of micro-hydro schemes in the UK was undertaken and a detailed evaluation of two schemes in the North of England was conducted to determine how expertise and contestation figures in community schemes. Results demonstrate a rapid expansion of micro-hydro in the UK. Ownership/control is highly ‘community based’. Until now research around micro-hydro has been dominated by technical approaches with schemes defined in terms of hardware. We propose a third dimension to Walker and Cass's (2007) classification of renewable energy developments: the environmental dimension. We suggest this dimension of micro-hydro is critical, both in terms of the extent to which resources can be realised but also the ways in which it might attract controversy, in particular around how expertise is used and valued.