Session 3-A: Just transition, acceleration, or reduction?

by FMEs Include and NTRANS 

Mainstream energy discussions tend to take for granted that good energy transitions entail rapidly deploying renewable energy technologies, low carbon transport solutions and carbon capture and storage at scale. This session starts from the observation that any energy transition is also a societal transition, which also means that they have effects beyond the energy system: they create winners and losers, the stabilize and destabilize, they intervene in tradeoffs between energy needs, the natural environment, and societal desires. In this session we will discuss the social and political aspects of the energy transition with a focus on what it means to make the transition just and rapid. We do this while asking if we also need to fundamentally re-think how we do transitions, if there is a need to focus more on reducing consumption and on making transitions more just and equitable. 

Program:

15:00: Welcome!

• Tomas Moe Skjølsvold, NTNU & FME NTRANS
  • Towards new political lines of conflicts: Perspectives on the energy transition and energy consumption.

• Kjersti Bjørnevik, Trøndelag Fylke
  • Intervention: How we work to reduce consumption

• Tanja Winther, UiO & FME Include
  • Norwegian perceptions of electricity - and justice aspects of demand-side management 

• Ida Marie Henriksen, Trondheim municipality
  • Intervention: A part of the new plan: A promise to be energy smart.

• Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg, FNI & FME Include
  • Energy poverty and its effects on the energy transition

• Tor Brekke, ENOVA
  • Intervention

Panel discussion/audience questions.

16:30: End

Welcome and kind regards,
Tanja Winther (Include), Tomas Moe Skjølsvold (NTRANS)