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  • Environmental Science
  • Energy Policy
  • Sociology

Background:

  • Sustainable development (SD) provides a framework for addressing complex challenges like energy transitions.
  • SD strategies offer direction for managing tensions, trade-offs, and synergies within energy systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify challenges faced by energy practitioners during energy transitions.
  • To explore potential solutions for these challenges within the Canadian context.

Main Methods:

  • A survey was conducted with 34 energy practitioners across Canada.
  • In-depth interviews were performed with the Energy Futures Lab design team, a civil society initiative focused on Canadian energy transition.

Main Results:

  • Key challenges include the absence of single solutions, conflicting considerations and goals in energy systems, varying trust and competencies among practitioners, the need for cross-political collaboration, and uneven distribution of costs and benefits.
  • Practitioners exhibit differing levels of trust and competencies in key actors.
  • Energy transitions involve navigating conflicting considerations and goals within energy systems.

Conclusions:

  • The three strategies of sustainable development (economic, political, social choice) can manage tensions and trade-offs in energy transitions.
  • While not always equally valued, these SD strategies hold potential utility across diverse energy transition scenarios.