The Dutch municipality Heerlen commissioned ECN to investigate different perspectives of stakeholders on a sustainable region and to measure the level of acceptance for different visions and accompanying pathways. Ruth Mourik was coordinator and researcher.
ECN Projects
Below you find a selection of relevant projects Ruth Mourik worked on when
appointed by ECN.
Societal acceptance projects
Sustainable Heerlen
Societal embedding analyses
Many projects were undertaken internaly at ECN aimed at analysing acceptance for PVT, Energy management systems.
Hysociety: towards a hydrogen economy
This project was funded by the European Commission under FP5. Hysociety aimed at creating an actionplan to facilitate the hydrogen economy. In addition the acceptance of industrial stakeholders for this plan was evaluated. Ruth Mourik was Work Package leader and researcher.
Sustainable Texel
The Dutch municipality island of Texel commissioned ECN to develop scenario's focusing on a self-sustainable Texel. Particular attention was paid to best practices in terms of societal acceptance on islands and small communities for similar actions. Ruth Mourik was teamcoordinator and researcher.
Create Acceptance
In this project funded by the European Commission the influence of culture on acceptane of sustainable energy technologies, sources and carriers was investigated.
A methodology of literatureresearch and empirical case studies led to the development of an instrument (ESTEEM). Esteem allows for the measurement and improvement of acceptance for a sustainability project. ESTEEM was piloted in a CCS, hydrogen, wind, solar and biomass project. Ruth Mourik was project coördinator and researcher.
Transition projects
SCOPE 2030
The Ministry of Housing and Environment commissioned ECN to identify possible visions for a sustainable built environment. Ruth Mourik was researcher.
THRIVE
In a consortium consisting of Shell, Linde-Gas, TNO and ECN the roll-out of a hydrogen refuelling stations infrastructure in the Netherlands was investigated.
First users were identified, including their willingness to shift fuel, make detours to drive to refuelling stations and other issues. Ruth Mourik was team coordinator and researcher.
Sustainable Flevoland
The Dutch province Flevoland commissioned ECn to identify different niches and roadmaps to a more sustainable energyregime. We used a methodology based on interviews and literature research. Ruth Mourik was coordinator and researcher.
Behavioural change projects
Changing Behaviour
This FP7 European project identified all factors influencing energy consuming behaviour of households and small consumers. This knowledge was translated into a toolkit for programme designers called MECHANISM. Ruth Mourik was Work Package leader and researcher.
