Senni Määttä

Radboud University | RU · Department of Business Administration

The new policy brief written within CaLby2030 project with a joint effort between Radboud University and EU CORE, discusses how Europe's ambitious climate goals can be sustained through effective Industrial Carbon Management. Published after the recent European Commission Communication, the brief underlines that while financial support remains cruc...

Community benefits are a key strategy for promoting social acceptance of renewable energy and ensuring distributive fairness of the energy transition. However, they can sometimes damage rather than strengthen the relationship between communities and developers. This paper examines stakeholder submissions to The Scottish Government's Good Practice P...

This report seeks to provide a reflection on the research completed within the network by combining the accumulated knowledge of the MISTRAL network on key social acceptance variables and key papers addressing them, providing a ‘travel guide’ to social acceptance research for those embarking on research on social dimensions of renewable energy and...

The energy system transition requires a radical transformation of the energy system. These changes reach out to the everyday lives of individuals making them key stakeholders in the transition. As the energy transition is not possible without the involvement of the public, questions over who participates (or does not, or cannot) and who benefits fr...

This poster summarises some of the key features of my PhD thesis 'Governance of Public Involvement in the Energy System Transition' under the framework of a Whole-of-Society Approach.

Senni Määttä was seconded to NESC as a visiting researcher from September to October 2021. The paper produced during the secondment explores stakeholder views on micro-generation as expressed through the Irish Micro-Generation Scheme consultation process. It focuses on prosumers and microgeneration as part of the active participation of individuals...

The urgent need to progress the low carbon energy transition has stimulated new forms of governance to address the multiple challenges facing policy, regulation, and implementation. This paper suggests that some countries are adopting a range of measures for the energy transition that amount to a Whole-of-Society Approach, formerly deployed as a re...