UK
Presentation to the Gloucestershire Association of Parish and Town Council
Project AURORA is reaching out beyond its Pilot Area in the Forest of Dean to inform over 260 Parish and Town Councils in the County
4 november 2022
AURORA is demonstrating how people can make a difference through the choices they make, reducing 13-20% of all greenhouse gas emissions linked to residential energy use and 13% linked to transport choices. In addition, the project will empower people to take ownership of new community solar energy projects.
AURORA will show at least 7,000 citizens how they can make a difference through the choices they make, to reduce the emissions they are responsible for.
By crowdfunding local solar energy plants, with shares as low as €20, each participating citizen can become an active “prosumer” (someone who both consumes and produces energy). In the long run, this will help democratise the governance of the community and its energy systems.
Participants will act as citizen researchers by recording their monthly energy consumption on a user-friendly mobile app. They will receive personalised recommendations to improve their energy consumption habits and reduce their carbon footprint.
Five local energy communities have been established in different locations across Europe:
Project AURORA is reaching out beyond its Pilot Area in the Forest of Dean to inform over 260 Parish and Town Councils in the County
We were honoured to present project AURORA at the biennial conference of the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) in Berlin (6-7th Oct 2022), prominently scheduled
As one of the project partners in AURORA, I am obviously also a citizen myself and thus excited to be one the first participants in
International project AURORA launched to empower the people of Europe to take ownership of the
climate change debate. Five crowdfunded demonstrators in Denmark, England, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain will be built to reduce the carbon footprint of 7000 citizens.
