Course D: Planning and Implementing Community Engagement for Renewable Energy Strategies

You are invited to attend Course D: Planning and Implementing Community Engagement for Renewable Energy Strategies with trainer Ciaran Lynch, Tipperary Energy Agency.

Programme

9.00 a.m. Arrival and Registration

9.30 a.m. Introduction to LARES – John McCann, SEAI

9.45 a.m. Objective, Background, Consultation & Participation

• Overall workshop objective
• Why develop a Local Renewable Energy Strategy?
• Key Issues for Energy in Ireland
• Issues
• Policy Development
• A Local Renewable Energy Action Plan
• Workshop purpose and structure
• A few thoughts on collaborative planning
• The ethics of participation and consultation
• Consultation and participation in different contexts

Q & A and discussion

11.00 a.m. Tea and Coffee Break

11.15 a.m. Executing Participation and Consultation

• Techniques 1
• Techniques 2
• Consultation, participation and the law
• Designing a project participation or consultation process
• Using the outcomes of the process
• What is being asked of participants in the process
• Group Exercise

Q & A and discussion

1.00 p.m. Lunch