| 英文摘要 |
By means of the co-cities and urban commons scholarship, this article analyzes Taipei City’s“community energy on municipality-owned buildings programs”as a case study. The research methods include historical analysis, semi-structured interviews with key actors, and onsite observation. The article explores how the city government uses policy intervention and legal adjustments to make the roofs of public facilities sustainably used as new sites for community energy projects. First, we review the history of building solar PV systems in domestic public buildings, and then analyze the mechanisms and strategies for establishing community solar in city-owned buildings. The analysis finds that traditional solar manufacturers, in consideration of the need for public-private governance stability in the solar PV market, have ventured into social enterprises using solar crowdfunding platforms as leverage for local charities to create market niches and public goods. We develop the concept of“quasi-urban commons”to characterize the solar commons produced through mechanisms responsive to the political-economic context in Taiwan. Although these initiatives share the spirit of co-cities, such as collective governance, economic pooling, and technical innovation, they did not facilitate social transitions by empowering citizens to initiate community-based solar programs, and this deserves further investigation. |