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Benefits of cross-border citizen energy communities at distribution system level [PDF]
Energy Strategy Reviews, 2022 One challenge of the EU energy transition is the integration of renewable electricity generation in the distribution system. EU energy law proposes a possible solution by introducing “citizen energy communities” (Directive 2019/944/EU) which may be open ...
Andreas Stroink +3 more
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Web-based platform for the management of citizen energy communities and their members [PDF]
Energy Informatics, 2021 The appearance of citizen energy communities demands the conception, development, and testing of new management models for the community and its end-users.
Helder Pereira +4 more
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Community acceptability and the energy transition: a citizens’ perspective [PDF]
Energy, Sustainability and Society, 2019 Background Every energy transition has had its winners and its losers, both economically and in terms of social justice and community cohesion. The current transition is no different given the complex, intersecting matrices of power and experience that ...
Breffní Lennon +2 more
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Citizen Science and Citizen Energy Communities: A Systematic Review and Potential Alliances for SDGs [PDF]
Sustainability, 2020 Citizen science and citizen energy communities are pluralistic terms that refer to a constellation of methods, projects, and outreach activities; however, citizen science and citizen energy communities are rarely, if ever, explicitly aligned. Our searches for “citizen science” and “energy” produced limited results and “citizen science” and “energy ...
Daniel Wuebben +2 more
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The Power of Co-Creation in the Energy Transition—DART Model in Citizen Energy Communities Projects
Energies, 2021 Successful energy transformation is interconnected with greater citizenry participation as prosumers. The search for novel solutions to implement the transition to renewable energy that will neutralize the barriers to this process, e.g., the reluctance ...
Bożena Ryszawska +4 more
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Energy Urbanity and Active Citizen Participation
Energies, 2021 This paper poses the question: ‘can energy innovation initiatives in Innovation Playgrounds foster a new ‘energy urbanity’ through active citizen participation in the energy transition?’ The concept of ‘Innovation Playgrounds’ and an accompanying ...
Alan Mee, Madeleine Lyes, Philip Crowe
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Community Energy in the United Kingdom:beyond or between the Market and the State?
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2021 The British energy policy regime is commonly depicted as large-scale, centrally-planned and private-sector led sector with limited citizen involvement into energy planning and development.
Pierre Wokuri
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Energy sharing strategies in a Citizen Energy Community including vulnerable consumers
2023 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), 2023 This article presents an optimization model to allocate the energy produced by a PV-coupled battery system in an energy community using the compensation mechanism available to self-consumption renewable systems up to 100 kW in Spain. The considered community incorporates public buildings, an EV charging station, and a group of households in situation ...
Jiménez Martínez, Mariana Catalina +3 more
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Éducation et Socialisation, 2022 The eco-citizen movement for an energy transition is working to transform the dominant economic-energy system aiming for social justice and respect for the environment.
Laurence Brière +5 more
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Determinants of citizens’ involvement in community energy initiatives
International Journal of Sustainable Energy, 2022 Collective action has always been a powerful driving force for social change. Thus, by assigning new responsibilities to residents and local communities, community energy initiatives can contribute to the efficient generation and distribution of energy and promote climate goals.
Spyridon Karytsas, Eleni Theodoropoulou
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