Citizens at the heart of the energy transition in Europe?

Krug, Michael; Nucci, Maria Rosaria Di

doi:10.4337/relp.2020.04.02

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“…Studies on community energy have focused not only on identifying the motivation for establishing and participating in such collective initiatives, on factors determining success [4][5][6][7] and their benefits [8,9], but particularly on the still existing barriers for realising community energy at the national and regional level [8,[10][11][12]. Research investigating social acceptance of renewable energy shows that local ownership and local benefits are important acceptance factors as they contribute to generating trust and enabling civic empowerment [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. Another large strand of literature concentrates on the role that energy communities can play in the transition to a low-carbon society [20][21][22], enhancing the move from a centralised energy system dominated by a few market players to a decentralised system with civic involvement to increase the share of renewables in the energy mix and providing flexibility to the electricity system through demand-response and storage [23][24][25].…”

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Learning from Other Community Renewable Energy Projects: Transnational Transfer of Multi-Functional Energy Gardens from the Netherlands to Germany

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Citizen energy in general and renewable energy communities (RECs) in particular are becoming key vehicles for decentralisation, but also for the democratisation of the energy system. These initiatives are now more diverse than ever and are likely to continue to act as incubators for significant projects in the transition to a renewable energy system. Beside the legal, regulatory, and financial challenges, there are several socio-economic and regulatory barriers that hinder the implementation of community energy projects. For this reason, policy learning and the dissemination of good/best practices that are transferable also to other contexts are important. This is an aspect that has not yet attracted much investigation, and only a few studies have explored the importance of transfer activities for the implementation of REC initiatives and their motives. This article aimed to address this knowledge gap by focussing on the transfer processes of best practices initiated in a particular region and discusses how these can be adapted and transferred to other contexts. We analysed the transfer case of a community renewable energy initiative, the multifunctional energy gardens, from the Netherlands to the German federal State of Thuringia, and extracted lessons with an overall validity for the transferability of drivers and success factors. We show how examples from other contexts with similar enabling conditions can represent significant foundations on which to build an effective strategy and what framework conditions are necessary to enhance the uptake of pervasive community energy initiatives in regions with low community energy development.

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