Highlights:• Renewable energies offer a key transformative potential from a social point of view.• Few RES cooperatives exist in Spain despite thousands of them currently exist in Europe.• Current economic-political context is found to be the main barrier for their development.• Spanish RES cooperatives feature particular organizational and operating structures.• A flexible and conducive legislative framework might stimulate their development.
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