TY - JOUR AU - Heldeweg, Michiel A. AU - Sanders, Maurits AU - Harmsen, Marc PY - 2015 DA - 2015/03/24 TI - Public-private or private-private energy partnerships? Toward good energy governance in regional and local green gas projects JO - Energy, Sustainability and Society SP - 9 VL - 5 IS - 1 AB - An important avenue toward a proper ‘energy transition’ through regional and local projects is for government to collaborate with private sector organizations. In the energy sector, these latter organizations are often already involved in private-private partnerships for collaboration toward energy transition. This article focuses on the energy governance question whether in fact some of these forms of collaboration actually are about public governance, as they effectively lean on government involvement. This seems to be the case in the construction of biogas infrastructures for the production and distribution of green gas. This contribution discusses, on the basis of the case ‘Biogas grid Noordoost Fryslân’, if such collaboration should in fact be labeled as public-private partnership (PPP). In the energy governance discourse, this issue is important because in the organization of PPP, the public interest of energy transition comes with specific normative safeguards, originating in public law. SN - 2192-0567 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13705-015-0038-8 DO - 10.1186/s13705-015-0038-8 ID - Heldeweg2015 ER -