Energy communities in a transnational deliberative framework: from local energy democracy to global ecological deliberation
国境を越えた審議的枠組みにおけるエネルギーコミュニティ：地域のエネルギー民主主義から地球規模の生態学的審議へ (AI 翻訳)
Eleonora Piromalli
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日本語
本稿は、エネルギーコミュニティ（EC）を多層的な審議システムの結節点として再概念化する。ECが民主的正当性を獲得するには、自己統治、社会的包摂、生態的責任を審議実践で制度的に結びつける必要があると論じ、生態学的閾値を集合的選択の制約とする規範モデルを提示する。また、EC実践の欠陥（参加の希薄さ、社会的選択性、技術官僚的傾向、局地主義、生態学的過少特定）を診断し、ガバナンスの設計基準を導出する。最後に、ECを国境を越えた審議システムに位置づけ、具体的ユートピアとしての可能性を論じる。
English
This article reconceptualizes energy communities (ECs) as nodes in a multi-scalar deliberative system. It argues that ECs can claim democratic legitimacy when self-rule, social inclusion, and ecological responsibility are institutionally connected through deliberative practices, and proposes a normative model where ecological thresholds act as enabling constraints. It diagnoses common deficits in EC practice and derives design criteria for governance, situating ECs within a transnational deliberative system as a concrete utopia.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本では、再生可能エネルギー導入拡大に伴い地域エネルギーコミュニティの役割が注目されるが、本稿の規範的枠組みは、日本のエネルギー政策における地域参加と環境制約の統合に示唆を与える。SSBJや有報での情報開示とは直接関係しないが、エネルギー転換の民主的正当性を考える上で参考になる。
In the global GX context
Globally, this paper contributes to debates on energy democracy and just transition by linking local energy governance to transnational ecological deliberation. It offers a normative framework that could inform policy design for energy communities in the context of climate governance and participatory mechanisms, complementing technical and economic analyses of renewable deployment.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Provides a normative framework for analyzing energy communities' democratic legitimacy and ecological integration, useful for political theory and energy governance research.
🏢実務担当者:Offers design criteria for energy community governance that could guide participatory processes and ecological responsibility in community energy projects.
🏛政策担当者:Suggests how to institutionalize ecological thresholds and public justification in energy community policies, potentially informing participatory governance frameworks.
📄 Abstract（原文）
This article reconceptualizes energy communities (ECs) within a transnational deliberative framework. ECs are usually discussed as local actors, instruments of renewable deployment, or sites of grassroots participation. This article treats them as potential nodes in a multi-scalar deliberative system that links local energy governance to wider processes of democratic and ecological justification. It argues that ECs can claim robust democratic legitimacy when democratic self-rule, social inclusion, and ecological responsibility are institutionally connected through deliberative practices. On this basis, the article develops a normative model in which ecological thresholds function as enabling constraints on collective choice: they orient local decisions towards environmental limits, supply-chain responsibilities, and intergenerational duties while remaining open to public contestation and revision. The article then diagnoses recurrent deficits in current EC practice, including thin participation, social selectivity, technocratic drift, localism, and ecological underspecification, and interprets them as problems of democratic legitimacy. From this diagnosis, it derives design criteria for EC governance. Finally, the article situates ECs within a transnational deliberative system understood as a concrete utopia: a regulative horizon grounded in partial institutional possibilities. If connected through federations, municipal networks, civil-society coalitions, shared ecological baselines, and public records of justification, ECs can circulate publicly defensible claims across contexts and contribute to democratic capacities beyond the energy domain. In this sense, ECs can link local self-government with transnational responsibility in the governance of the energy transition.
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- openalex https://doi.org/10.1080/16544951.2026.2703385first seen 2026-08-03 04:43:44
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