ARCHETYPES FOR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN CRI RENEWABLE ENERGY SCHEMES:

The following framework has been proposed, based on six types of community involvement, as follows:

	Community involvement in energy efficiency or renewable energy schemes run, for community benefit, by public, private, voluntary or community organisations. This would exclude schemes established solely for private profit (because of the community benefit element). If the term 'environmental benefit' were used, this would not exclude schemes for private profit because environmental benefit could simply be using renewable sources of fuel. In this type of project, community involvement could include, for example: -participation in the design and establishment of the scheme -community organisations supplying fuel from renewable sources to a scheme.
	Energy efficiency or renewable energy schemes initiated by voluntary or community organisations, with additional community involvement processes to ensure wider support and knowledge (beyond the group promoting the scheme).
	Energy efficiency or renewable energy schemes in which voluntary or community organisations are partners in a meaningful way (i.e. not just token names on the project proposal but, e.g., having a 50% representation on the governing group).
	Energy efficiency or renewable energy schemes owned by the local community. Ownership could be through a community company, development trust or other community enterprise model, or by electing the governing group (i.e. ownership through political control).
	Energy efficiency or renewable energy schemes managed by voluntary or community organisations, through agreement with the developers or owners (e.g. a management group or board made up of representatives of the local community).
	Voluntary or community-run projects with other priorities but which incorporate elements of energy efficiency or renewable energy. In this type of scheme, the energy aspects would not be the main purpose of the scheme. Some schemes may incorporate several of these types of community involvement, such as a scheme initiated by a community group (ii), with wider community involvement (i) and then run in the long term by a partnership including that group but also others (iii). However, to 'count' as a community scheme, at least one of these types of involvement would need to be present.