Engaging Stakeholders in Dialogue Challenges And Achievements London Renewable Energy Conference 11/10/02

Engaging Stakeholders Jørgen Lund Madsen City of Copenhagen Agency of Environmental Protection

Engaging Stakeholders Why engaging stakeholders New Metro Valby District, solar collectors Middelgrunden, offshore wind farm Challenges and achievements

Why Engaging Stakeholders? Information Dialogue Participation -democratic -financial

Why Engaging Stakeholders Information: -To help stakeholders -To avoid complains -To establish god relations for the future Information is good when you want to keep a distance to your stakeholders

Why Engaging Stakeholders Dialogue: -To be sure your information is correct and have reached your stakeholders -To know the opinion of the stakeholders -To improve the quality of your project Dialogue is good when you want to give the stakeholders some ownership to the project

Why Engaging Stakeholders Participation (democratic): -To anchor the project among stakeholders -To use stakeholders property, engagement or other strengths Participation (financial): -To fund the project

Information, New Metro

New Metro Information to citizens No dialogue Few complains

Dialogue, Valby District Solar collectors m2 in m2 in % electricity inhabitants

Dialogue, Valby district, Solar collectors City of Copenhagen Copenhagen Energy Engineering company Urban renewal company

Dialogue, Valby District, Solar collectors Objectives: -develop competence on solar collectors and holistic solutions -implement sustainable energy production -create a social, cultural, environmental and economic development in the district

Dialogue, Valby District, Solar Collectors Leaflet to all stakeholders Information in media and on homepage Dialogue meetings Exhibition with model buildings Action programme Dialogue Schools Institutions Companies Shops Owners of apartment houses Tenants

Dialogue, Valby District Solar Collectors Achievements: -Project team with strong partners -Local engagement in the project -Some financial interest -Good experiences with children learning parents Challenges: -”Talking the same language” -”Keeping the pot warm” in a long process -”Selling” the holistic point of view

Middelgrunden, Offshore Wind Farm

20 wind turbines Located on a former dumping area 40 MW KWh per year 3 % of electricity consumption of Copenhagen

Middelgrunden, Offshore Wind Farm 10 turbines owned by Copenhagen Energy 10 owned by a co- operative: shares -500 Euro per share

Middelgrunden, Offshore Wind farm Achievements: -Engaging the citizens in a practical and sustainable action -Popular ownership contributes to the installation of extra capacity -An outstanding exhibition of wind turbines -Results in popular acceptance of large- scale projects, no complains

Middelgrunden, Offshore Wind Farm Challenges: -Co-operation between energy company and stakeholders representatives

Achievements, Engaging Stakeholders A better process for projects when engaging stakeholders A possibility for future anchoring of projects An increased sustainable development in the city and in districts A better acceptance of changes

Challenges, Engaging Stakeholders To overcome the fear for “troublemakers” To see the benefits from a more holistic point of view (a longer and more expensive planning process will pay back in the end) To see the stakeholders in general as “a resource” and potential partners To convince stakeholders that it is in their interest to participate To ensure that it is not only the few that participate but a representative group