Abstract
The island of Lolland is a showcase example of a remote local community being able to stand up to the challenges of facing environmental and social consequences of climate change while creating economic opportunities. This island has had many years of experience in implementing renewable energy (RE) projects as a way to combating peripheral poverty and promoting economic growth in a relatively remote area. The development strategy lies within the unique concept of Lolland Community Testing Facilities (CTF), which creates a forum between the private sector, research institutions and local political authorities by exploiting synergies among green investments and providing an international testing and demonstration platform for renewable energy technology and products. The present paper aims at giving an overview of integrated longer term energy planning based on Lolland CTF, its components and main features, while highlighting those critical characteristics that could make the CTF model successful and relevant for RE-based local development worldwide.
Highlights
Remote and peripheral communities have to face various challenges, as today’s world has got more and more interconnected and relies on centralized global hubs for all sort of business, including manufacturing and technological development, among others
All along its historical development, the island of Lolland has been going through all these challenges, but it has gradually identified a model of development that has allowed this peripheral area to get out of economic stagnation and social poverty by recurring to local sustainable resources: Lolland Community Testing Facilities (CTF)
By using its own natural resources and potentials, Lolland has developed a comprehensive list of initiatives -under the Community Testing Facility umbrella- promoting effective technologies in the environment and energy sectors
Summary
Remote and peripheral communities have to face various challenges, as today’s world has got more and more interconnected and relies on centralized global hubs for all sort of business, including manufacturing and technological development, among others. All along its historical development, the island of Lolland has been going through all these challenges, but it has gradually identified a model of development that has allowed this peripheral area to get out of economic stagnation and social poverty by recurring to local sustainable resources: Lolland Community Testing Facilities (CTF). Such a solution represents a comprehensive growth approach based on RE, preservation of natural capital and sustainability. CTF, and investigating its potential replicability, this paper would like to contribute to the research dialogue on rural areas by displaying a meaningful, flexible, replicable long-term growth model for peripheral communities
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