Promoting citizen science in the energy sector: Generation Solar, an open database of small-scale solar photovoltaic installations.

ABSTRACT: Citizen science is becoming an effective approach in building a new relationship between science and society, in which the desire of citizens to participate actively in knowledge production meets the needs of researchers. A citizen science initiative dealing with the development of photovoltaics (PV) is presented. To generate a "responsible" initiative, the research question has been designed collectively from the beginning, involving diverse actors in order to encourage creativity while addressing their interests and concerns. The result has been called Generation Solar. It aims at co-creating an open database of PV installations including their technical characteristics, and an online map for visualizing them. The initiative responds to a clear scientific demand; an important drawback fo

SUBMITTER: Del Canizo C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10445918 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature