D5.2 Case study report on governance barriers to energy transition : Country report for Hungary

Abstract

The Energy Union Framework Strategy laid out on 25 February 2015 aims to foster a cost-efficient low carbon energy transition that delivers secure, sustainable and affordable energy to all European consumers. At its heart this is a citizen-oriented process involving new energy production and energy consumption choices shaped by particular economic conditions, value systems, gender-based preferences, efficiency of governance and the maturity of civil society. The ENABLE.EU project attempts to understand the key drivers of individual and collective energy choices, especially the profile shift from traditional consumer to prosumer (when energy consumers become energy producers). The project will develop participant-driven energy choice scenarios until 2050 by incorporating the findings from comparative sociological research. ENABLE.EU will include a comparative section to explain the variations found between Member States. The final aim of this project is to contribute to more enlightened, evidence-based policy decisions with the right mixture of incentives to develop the five dimensions of the Energy Union and Europe’s transition towards a decarbonised energy system therein. ENABLE.EU seeks to provide a more in-depth and thorough understanding of the social and economic drivers for individual and collective energy choices and energy choice patterns. Results will be disseminated to relevant national and EU-level actors as well as to the research community and a wider public.