Context and agency in urban community energy initiatives: An analysis of six case studies from the Baltic Sea Region

Ruggiero, Salvatore L.; Busch, Henner; Hansen, Teis; Isakovic, Aljosa

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111956

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“…Earlier research has also emphasized that ECs are not a new phenomenon and must be understood as something that has existed and developed over time in the Member States. The development of ECs has been influenced by spatial factors, and earlier studies have shown how the geographical differences matter for how ECs have emerged within Europe, where, for example, available energy resources influence what technology ECs prefer to invest in [12,20,24]. The intention in the CEP is to reduce barriers and facilitate for ECs to emerge.…”

Section: Background: Energy Communities In the Cepmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The lack of tailor-made policies for ECs is another often-mentioned barrier [25,31]. Ruggiero et al [24] discuss that existing energy market regulation and policy instruments, in general, are largely inadequate and not supportive of ECs. Bureaucracy, legislative, and administrative burdens are also barriers often mentioned in earlier research [16,25,[32][33][34][35].…”

Section: Background: Energy Communities In the Cepmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The lack of ideas about a support structure for ECs in Sweden can be a major barrier to the future emergence of ECs. Ruggiero et al [24] have noted that existing energy market regulations and policy instruments, in general, are largely inadequate for supporting ECs. Studying Poland and Finland, they found discriminatory taxes, inadequate metering regulations, slow building-permit issuance, and lack of grid connection as examples of existing limitations.…”

Section: The Ei Focuses On Ease Rather Than Incentivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ruggiero et al [24] emphasized the need for alternative visions to guide and inspire actors to establish ECs. Kooij et al [46] discussed how political discourses can enable EC formation.…”

Section: Lack Of Alternative Visions and Barrier Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Transposition of Energy Communities into Swedish Regulations: Overview and Critique of Emerging Regulations

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2021

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One organizational innovation introduced by the clean energy for all Europeans package (CEP) is that of the energy community (EC), including the renewable energy community (REC) and citizen energy community (CEC). The translation of related directives into national legislation is underway in Sweden, and the Swedish Energy Market Inspectorate (Ei) has proposed a new law on ECs, which has been sent for consultation. This article analyzes the Ei proposal and the responses from the 27 referral bodies commenting on the new EC regulations. Positive aspects of the proposal were that it would be a law on ECs and that it would be easy to start and run an EC. Critics were concerned that the law was too vague, the relationship between existing cooperatives and the new ECs was not clear, both CEC and REC are used instead of only using one term, there is a lack of suggestions on supportive measures for ECs, ECs will have less favorable conditions than other micro-producers of electricity, there is a lack of barrier analysis and visions of a future of ECs, and finally, that the situation for marginalized households was not dealt with in the proposal.

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Section: Background: Energy Communities In the Cepmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Background: Energy Communities In the Cepmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Ei Focuses On Ease Rather Than Incentivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ruggiero et al [24] emphasized the need for alternative visions to guide and inspire actors to establish ECs. Kooij et al [46] discussed how political discourses can enable EC formation.…”

Section: Lack Of Alternative Visions and Barrier Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Transposition of Energy Communities into Swedish Regulations: Overview and Critique of Emerging Regulations

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2021

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“…The current academic literature predominantly uses cases from the UK with contributions from a few other countries such as Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands. In addition, whereas there are numerous studies analysing community initiatives in Central and Western Europe, there is far less research on community energy in Eastern European countries (Ruggiero et al, 2021). The same holds for Southern European countries.…”

Section: New Insights Observed In Late-starting Countriesmentioning

confidence: 99%