Advancing local energy transitions: A global review of government instruments supporting community energy

Leonhardt, Renata; Noble, Bram; Poelzer, Greg; Fitzpatrick, Patricia; Belcher, Kenneth; Holdmann, Gwen

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2021.102350

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“…1) Micro-grids and local energy communities (LECs) are small entities such as towns or villages that are aiming to balance their own energy demands. Driven by the trend towards more DERs, LECs are rapidly increasing across the world [13]. Smart meter technology allows end-users more observability and control of their energy, hence their own local control becomes more autonomous and LECs are participating in markets [14].…”

Section: B Changing Environment-from Outsidementioning

confidence: 99%

Perspectives on Future Power System Control Centers for Energy Transition

Marot

Kelly²,

Naglič

et al. 2022

Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy

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Today's power systems are seeing a paradigm shift under the energy transition, sparkled by the electrification of demand, digitalisation of systems, and an increasing share of decarbonated power generation. Most of these changes have a direct impact on their control centers, forcing them to handle weather-based energy resources, new interconnections with neighbouring transmission networks, more markets, active distribution networks, micro-grids, and greater amounts of available data. Unfortunately, these changes have translated during the past decade to small, incremental changes, mostly centered on hardware, software, and human factors. We assert that more transformative changes are needed, especially regarding humancentered design approaches, to enable control room operators to manage the future power system. This paper discusses the evolution of operators towards continuous operation planners, monitoring complex time horizons thanks to adequate real-time automation. Reviewing upcoming challenges as well as emerging technologies for power systems, we present our vision of a new evolutionary architecture for control centers, both at backend and frontend levels. We propose a unified hypervision scheme based on structured decision-making concepts, providing operators with proactive, collaborative, and effective decision support.

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Section: B Changing Environment-from Outsidementioning

confidence: 99%

Perspectives on Future Power System Control Centers for Energy Transition

Marot

Kelly²,

Naglič

et al. 2022

Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy

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“…Energy communities represent an innovative strategy to respond to the growing need to fight energy poverty and citizens' participation in the energy transition, with a view to self-consumption and collaboration [27]. Each energy community has its own specific characteristics, but they all have the same goal: to self-produce and provide affordable renewable energy to their members.…”

Section: Energy Community and Energy Poverty: A Virtuous Model Betwee...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Renewable Energy Communities and Energy Poverty: a proactive approach to energy transition with Sun4All project

Cumo

Maurelli

Pennacchia

et al. 2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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The transition to an environmentally sustainable, low-carbon economy requires fundamental transformations in various sectors such as industry, technology, and especially in society as a whole. Adopting and encouraging community energy are the key policies to facilitate sustainable energy and ecological and social transition. The Sun4All methodology aims at the design, promotion and building of energy communities based on solidarity, to contrast energy poverty and foresee the engagement of vulnerable households that normally have many difficulties in becoming active members of an energy sharing project realising PV plants. The selection of the beneficiaries’ families in the urban context is a process both technical, including socio-territorial GIS-based analysis, and social, activating the participation of grass-root associations, local schools, and facilitators. The strategic role of the municipality is coherent with the SECAP and results in the offers of several public building roofs with PV plants that are the cores of the Sun4all Energy Communities and will ensure the delivery of economic benefits for the vulnerable households, while through workshops, site visits to the plants, and communication activities will increase the citizens’ knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to explore the benefits that go far beyond energy efficiency, which is only the starting point.

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“…Government instruments to promote the energy transition, such as energy regulations and policies, can present both opportunities and barriers to the development of CE. There are numerous cases showing how instruments used by local governments to promote community energy supply contradict national policies [1]. The simplicity of business models needs to be supported by legislation, regulations and adapted local support (e.g., expedited permission processes).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The global energy landscape is changing. Local, decentralized and community-driven renewable energy projects are increasingly playing an important role in a traditionally centralized energy market [1]. Research on the role of small-scale, decentralized energy projects and their transformative potential has increased in recent years [2][3][4][5][6].…”

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Success factors of citizen energy cooperatives in north western Germany: a conceptual and empirical review

Ahlemeyer¹,

Griese²,

Wawer³

et al. 2022

Energ Sustain Soc

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Background Citizen energy cooperatives (CECOs) are an important element for realising the transformation of the European energy system from a central system, dominated by a few market players to a decentralized system with the participation of many citizens, in which energy supply is largely based on renewable energy sources. This article identifies success factors that ensure a working organization that is capable of implementing projects to support the energy transition and improving the well-being of citizens. Methods The aim of this study is to identify success factors using the example of CECOs in north western Germany through a two-step process. The first step is a literature review to identify success factors of CECOs. Second, 12 semi-structured expert interviews with managers of CECOs are conducted and evaluated by means of a qualitative content analysis. The interviews identified the success factors and barriers of CECOs. The interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim. The coding process was carried out using a qualitative data analysis software (ATLAS.ti 8.4.5,). Results The results show that three factors particular should be present, but can influence each other, to lead to successful CECOs: (1) the CECOs require business models with low complexity, as business models that span different stages of the value chain can overwhelm organizational managers. (2) Committed key individuals must be found and promoted. They need the support of the members. (3) Social and ecological principles are the core values of CECOs. The maintenance and strengthening of social–ecological credibility must be promoted in the public perception. Conclusions The results show that CECOs emerge from a strong social cohesion in a society. In addition, local "key individuals" need to be identified and supported. To this end, the framework conditions (e.g., policy, legislation, municipal support, etc.) must be adapted in such a way that these "key individuals" in CECOs are not overburdened. The analysis of the interviews also revealed that political or regulatory barriers are often cited as obstacles to the implementation of community energy projects.

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Advancing local energy transitions: A global review of government instruments supporting community energy

Cited by 85 publications

References 100 publications

Perspectives on Future Power System Control Centers for Energy Transition

Perspectives on Future Power System Control Centers for Energy Transition

Urban Renewable Energy Communities and Energy Poverty: a proactive approach to energy transition with Sun4All project

Success factors of citizen energy cooperatives in north western Germany: a conceptual and empirical review

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