Conceptualizing community in energy systems: A systematic review of 183 definitions

Bauwens, Thomas; Schraven, Daan; Drewing, Emily; Radtke, Jörg; Holstenkamp, Lars; Gotchev, Boris; Yildiz, Özgür

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2021.111999

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“…Hence, we can draw a differentiated perspective regarding the effects of community energy on individuals. On the one hand, we confirm the positive assumptions in the literature, which understand community energy as a vehicle that offers individual access to energy infrastructures and the energy transition as well as climate protection measures through material participation, thus stimulating a bottom-up transformation at the local level with the communities [107][108][109][110][111].…”

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Does Energy Community Membership Change Sustainable Attitudes and Behavioral Patterns? Empirical Evidence from Community Wind Energy in Germany

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Community energy is seen as a helping hand for local, decentralized energy transition. Besides the main goal of supporting the community-friendly and socially acceptable development of renewable energies, the hope is also that a pro-environmental influence on sustainability behavior will be triggered when joining a community energy project. An analysis of a survey among 16 community energy projects in Germany, with 565 completed questionnaires, shows that a certain part of the members pays more attention to their energy behavior and develop a more positive attitude towards a decentralized energy transition and citizen participation after joining the community energy project. Therefore, we can empirically support that climate protection projects, such as community energy, influence pro-environmental attitudes and behavior, but this does not apply equally to all population groups. Members with higher income and stronger interest in returns are less likely to change their behavior. Based on these findings, we recommend the development of community energy policies that are more responsive to differences in social structure and address both privileged and underprivileged groups in a sophisticated way using specific offers and modes of involvement within the associations.

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Does Energy Community Membership Change Sustainable Attitudes and Behavioral Patterns? Empirical Evidence from Community Wind Energy in Germany

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“…Instead, in Italian online news, we find that more attention is paid to the economic implications of renewable energy communities rather than to their social aspects. Lastly, Bauwens et al [21] showed that the meaning of "community" is evolving and "there is a shift away from community as a process and an increasing emphasis on community as a place". Our results support this statement and further highlight the link of a community not only with a place, but also with the people living in that place, having their own social identity and energy signature.…”

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“…Traditionally, cooperatives are the most diffused [20], where citizens collectively own and manage renewable energy projects. Indeed, the social structure behind energy communities is particularly relevant for their diffusion [21]. Prospective users' awareness and acceptance represent the fundamental basis for effectively exploiting innovative technologies [22].…”

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Evaluating and improving social awareness of energy communities through semantic network analysis of online news

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“…The term "community" represents a group of energy users that decide to act collectively instead of individually because of their proximity to one another, so that the activities can provide services or other benefits to the community members [26]. Focusing on the spatial proximity, a community is placed in a small locality, where people spend a continuous portion of their time, though the term can be scaled up to higher spatial levels [27]. In the energy sector, the term "energy communities" (ECs) has been debated extensively; therefore, the Clean Energy Package has introduced two slightly different types of communities: citizen energy community (CEC) and renewable energy community (REC) [28].…”

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A Generic Framework for the Definition of Key Performance Indicators for Smart Energy Systems at Different Scales

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The growing integration of intermittent renewable energy sources (RESs) and the increasing trend of shutting down fossil-fuel-based power plants has brought about the need for additional flexibility in energy systems. This flexibility can be provided in various forms, including controllable generation and consumption, storage, conversions, and exchanges with interconnected systems. In this context, an increasing focus is placed on the development of smart energy systems (SESs) that combine different types of distributed energy resources (DERs), information and communication technologies (ICTs), demand side management (DSM), and energy conversion technologies. The utilization of SESs can lead to multiple benefits for the stakeholders involved; therefore, the assessment of their performance is a primary concern. Due to their multidisciplinary nature, there are no known or universally accepted standards for assessing the performance of SESs. Previous efforts only define key performance indicators (KPIs) for individual homogeneous subsystems, focusing on a specific SES type and application area. This paper focuses on the development of a novel comprehensive KPI framework that can be applied to any type of SES, regardless of the application area. The proposed framework consists of four layers that specify the application area, the main SES requirements, and the involved stakeholders’ objectives. Next, the KPIs are identified for each of the stakeholders’ objectives. The proposed KPI framework is applied to the use case of a European research project with different application areas, to demonstrate its features. Finally, a repository of KPIs is identified for each use case with respect to the aforementioned SES requirements.

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Conceptualizing community in energy systems: A systematic review of 183 definitions

Cited by 116 publications

References 92 publications

Does Energy Community Membership Change Sustainable Attitudes and Behavioral Patterns? Empirical Evidence from Community Wind Energy in Germany

Does Energy Community Membership Change Sustainable Attitudes and Behavioral Patterns? Empirical Evidence from Community Wind Energy in Germany

Evaluating and improving social awareness of energy communities through semantic network analysis of online news

A Generic Framework for the Definition of Key Performance Indicators for Smart Energy Systems at Different Scales

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