Energy and strategic energy planning

Abstract

Since the renewable energy transition fundamentally alters how energy is generated, transported, and utilized, it also redefines the role that energy has in space and how space can or should be planned. A changing energy-space nexus as a result of the energy transition therefore calls on planners involved in the production, distribution, and consumption of energy and on planners involved in the allocation of space to functions such as housing, transport, and industry to more structurally consider how their planning practices relate to and impinge on each other. ‘Strategic energy planning’ is a type of planning that foregrounds this energy-space nexus by systematically analyzing how producing, distributing, and consuming energy impinges on using, interpreting, and planning space in a community, and vice versa.