Energy transition and civic engagement

Radtke, Jörg; Drewing, Emily; Eichenauer, Eva; Holstenkamp, Lars; Kamlage, Jan-Hendrik; Mey, Franziska; Warode, Jan; Wegener, Jana

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-819515-4.00004-0

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“…In parallel, opportunities for economic ventures of individual citizens and collective actors in electricity markets arose, including energy cooperatives (c.f. [3]). As a result, purely market-oriented business models are being expanded by additional value propositions, such as community and environmental benefits.…”

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Business models of energy cooperatives active in the PV sector—A statistical analysis for Germany

Wierling

Zeiß

Beck

et al. 2022

PLOS Sustain Transform

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Energy markets have opened up to new actors and business models. We perform an empirical investigation of energy cooperatives (EC) investing in the photo-voltaic (PV) market. Deploying a unique database for Germany with 584 EC covering two decades of activities, we provide statistical evidence on their businesses, members and customer segments, production units, and financial status. The analysis yields that German EC active in the PV sector have invested about one billion EUR, managing more than 4400 PV installations with an aggregate capacity of roughly 700 MWp. Nine different business models currently prevail. The latest developments show that EC are adapting to changing market conditions, expanding their activities, and searching for new investment and business opportunities.

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Business models of energy cooperatives active in the PV sector—A statistical analysis for Germany

Wierling

Zeiß

Beck

et al. 2022

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“…The transition can be subject of financial involvement from citizens to renewable energy projects (Holstenkamp & Kahla, 2016;Yildiz, 2014) or business models that actively promote co-ownership or local energy generation, granting a cooperative property right to all producers and consumers (Gorroño-Albizu, 2020;Torabi Moghadam et al, 2020;Lowitzsch, 2020Lowitzsch, , 2019Lowitzsch & Hanke, 2019). Examples of these business models include equitable distribution (Koirala, Chaves Ávila et al, 2016;Koirala, Koliou et al, 2016), personal capital-building (Szulecki, 2018;Fairchild & Weinrub, 2017;Becker & Naumann, 2017;Morris & Jungjohann, 2016), sustainability by the localised use of community power (Radtke et al, 2020;Radtke, 2014;Hoffman & High-Pippert, 2010) and societal decoupling (Alexander & Yacoumis, 2018;Ferrari & Chartier, 2018;Rommel et al, 2018;Kunze & Becker, 2015). Additionally, community participation in providing electricity and heating at a lower cost leads to changes in consumer behaviour that result from their local utility companies, and renewable energy support initiatives are also brought to light (Sifakis et al, 2019;Chalkiadakis et al, 2018;Šahović & Da Silva, 2016;Beggio & Kusch, 2015;Haney & Pollitt, 2013).…”

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Transition to a Sustainable Energy Production and Consumption Model – Mapping the Patterns of Success

Popescu

Constantin

Chiripuci

2022

Journal of Business Economics and Management

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This research paper fills a literature gap by tapping into Europe’s Just Transition to green energy production and consumption models and introduces empirically derived trends. The mix of analysed variables was targeted at sustainable energy transformation models according to complementary economic research areas. Based on the clustered heat maps method, double dendrograms were constructed to identify socioeconomic and environmental patterns that characterize highly economic-efficient and sustainable transition patterns from the standard energy production and consumption model to the environmental-friendly and cost-efficient model in the European area. Results show that Austria, Denmark, Norway, Ireland, and Luxembourg followed the patterns of highly economically performant European countries that turned energy and resource productivity in their favour based on multiple factors: recycling, R&D, innovation, digitization. The opposite was observed in the case of many South-Eastern European countries. Robustness checks were performed based on the linear discriminant analysis methodology and results confirmed that Northern European countries lead the change to a more sustainable future. In this context, this research brings empirical results for decision-makers and aims to facilitate a better understanding for adapting policies according to national needs, as well as to the patterns of success identified in the case of European leaders.

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“…20 Against the background of new technological developments in agriculture, which are supposed to enable more sustainable management, only two processes in Germany could be identified that deal with the future of technology and agriculture and include the perspective of citizens at an early stage: The German Federal Institute for Risk Assessments‹ (BfR) Consumer Conference on Genome Editing 2019 and »Ecologically sustainable: How do we want to live, do business and work in 2030?«, an Integrated environmental program by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (2016). More procedures can be found in the context of the ›Energiewende‹, and the changing landscape, but here the procedures are rarely used at an early stage, instead only when the conflicts have already arisen (Radtke et al 2020). 21 The Institute for Democracy and Participation Research (IDPF) selected 396 citizens in the city of Münster and the surrounding districts of Coesfeld, Steinfurt, and Warendorf for our Citizen Council.…”

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Zukünfte nachhaltiger Bioökonomie

2022

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Julia-Lena Reinermann (Dr. phil.) ist als Postdoc im Lehrgebiet Umweltwissenschaften an der FernUniversität in Hagen tätig. Die Kommunikationswissenschaftlerin forscht zur Kommunikation von Nachhaltigkeit und Klimawandel und fragt nach den Gründen für den Widerstand, die Ablehnung oder die Akzeptanz von (nachhaltigen) Technologien. Jan-Hendrik Kamlage (Dr. rer. pol.) ist Politikwissenschaftler und arbeitet als Postdoc und Koordinator am Centrum für Umweltmanagement, Ressourcen und Energie (CURE) an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Er leitet zudem die interdisziplinäre Forschungsgruppe »Partizipation und Transformation«. In seiner Forschung untersucht er die Bedingungen, unter denen Transformationen mit Mitteln des offenen Austauschs, der Partizipation, der Ko-Kreation und der Zusammenarbeit am erfolgreichsten sind. Nicole de Vries ist als Quartierskoordinatorin für die Stadt Münster tätig. Ihr Arbeitsschwerpunkt ist die partizipative Stadtentwicklung. Sie ist Mitherausgeberin des Urban Commons Cookbook. Ute Goerke, Dipl.-Geologin, M.S. Umweltwissenschaften und Journalistin, arbeitet am Centrum für Umweltmanagement, Ressourcen und Energie (CURE) an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Sie forscht zu Partizipation und dialogorientierter Bürgerbeteiligung sowie der sozial-ökologischen Transformation. Britta Oertel leitet am Institut für Zukunftsstudien und Technologiebewertung (IZT) den Foorschungsbereich Kommunikation & Öffentlichkeit sowie gemeinsam mit ihrer Kollegin Michaela Evers-Wölk den Forschungsbereich Technikfolgenabschätzung, Partizipation & Evaluierung und die Arbeiten im Rahmen der Konsortialmitgliedschaft des IZT beim Büro für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung beim Deutschen Bundestag (TAB). Der Schwerpunkt ihrer Forschungsarbeiten liegt auf der Analyse und Bewertung von neuen Technologien sowie von Kommunikations-und Dialogprozessen in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Silvia Diane Schrey (Dr. rer. nat.) ist Biologin am Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften (IBG-2) des Forschungszentrums Jülich (FZJ), wo sie sich mit nachhaltiger Pflanzenpro-Einführung

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Energy transition and civic engagement

Cited by 15 publications

References 28 publications

Business models of energy cooperatives active in the PV sector—A statistical analysis for Germany

Business models of energy cooperatives active in the PV sector—A statistical analysis for Germany

Transition to a Sustainable Energy Production and Consumption Model – Mapping the Patterns of Success

Zukünfte nachhaltiger Bioökonomie

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