Print Email Facebook Twitter Drawing the line Title Drawing the line: Opening up and closing down the siting of a high voltage transmission route in the Netherlands Author Ruiten, Kyra (The Thuisgekookt Foundation) Pesch, U. (TU Delft Ethics & Philosophy of Technology) Rodhouse, T.S.G.H. (TU Delft Transport and Logistics; TU Delft Organisation & Governance) Correljé, A. (TU Delft Economics of Technology and Innovation) Spruit, Shannon (Populytics B.V) Tenhaaf, Antje (HyTransport) Dijkshoorn, Jochem (WB De Ruimte) van den Berg, Susan (TenneT TSO B.V.) Date 2023 Abstract This paper describes the decision-making process regarding the siting of a high voltage transmission line in the southern part of the Netherlands by TenneT, the Transmission System Operator responsible for the electricity infrastructure. TenneT started this siting process by deploying conventional decision-making procedures, which have the tendency centrally to pre-scope, and select the technical, spatial and societal characteristics of such projects. Following the resistance of activist groups and local authorities, a new siting process was set up based on community engagement (CE) and the upfront involvement of local stakeholders, so to include new frames and perspectives and by reconsidering the workings of standard procedures. With that, TenneT opened up decision-making processes. In our paper, we will identify the practical and institutional tensions and challenges that emerged from these attempts to ‘open up’. The work is based on an ‘inside out’ description of the case: one of the researchers undertook an ethnographic study of the siting process, while the employees of TenneT directly involved in the siting process have been invited as co-authors, so to add details and the reflections of practitioners. Subject Energy TransitionHigh Voltage Transmission LineOpening up/closing downParticipation To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4d7749bc-204d-40d3-ab05-4473fb278cb1 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106804 ISSN 0264-8377 Source Land Use Policy, 132 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2023 Kyra Ruiten, U. Pesch, T.S.G.H. Rodhouse, A. Correljé, Shannon Spruit, Antje Tenhaaf, Jochem Dijkshoorn, Susan van den Berg Files PDF 1_s2.0_S0264837723002703_main.pdf 5.12 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:4d7749bc-204d-40d3-ab05-4473fb278cb1/datastream/OBJ/view