  Several studies in the near-Earth environment show that intermittent
structures are important sites of energy dissipation and particle energization.
Recent Parker Solar Probe (PSP) data, sampled in the near-Sun environment, have
shown that proton heating is concentrated near coherent structures, suggesting
local heating of protons by turbulent cascade in this region. However, whether
electrons exhibit similar behavior in the near-Sun environment is not clear.
Here, we address this question using PSP data collected near the Sun during the
first seven orbits. We use the partial variance of increments (PVI) technique
to identify coherent structures. We find that electron temperature is
preferentially enhanced near strong discontinuities, although the association
is somewhat weaker than that with protons. Our results provide strong support
for inhomogeneous heating of electrons in the "young" solar wind, associated
with dissipation of turbulent fluctuations near intermittent structures.
