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

Energies, 2022
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 ...
Jörg Radtke, Özgür Yildiz, Lucas Roth
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To what extent can community energy mitigate energy poverty in Germany?

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022
The reduction of energy poverty and the expansion of citizen-led community energy projects are two important issues for a just energy transition in the European Union.
Annika Bode
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Transformative power production futures: citizen jury deliberations in Saskatchewan, Canada

Energy, Sustainability and Society, 2023
Background Transforming power production systems to achieve net zero emissions and address climate change will require deep structural changes, partially dependent on community perceptions of the necessary energy transition.
Margot Hurlbert, Tanushree Das, Charisse Vitto   +2 more
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Citizen-Led Community Innovation for Food Energy Water Nexus Resilience

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2020
Food-energy-water (FEW) resources are necessary for the function of multiple socio-natural systems. Understanding the synergies and trade-offs in the FEW nexus, and how these interconnections impact earth’s systems, is critical to ensure adequate access ...
Emma Hibbett, Richard R. Rushforth, Elisabeth Roberts, Sean M. Ryan, Kyle Pfeiffer, Nena E. Bloom, Benjamin L. Ruddell   +6 more
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A Characterization of European Collective Action Initiatives and Their Role as Enablers of Citizens’ Participation in the Energy Transition

Energies, 2021
This paper provides novel additional evidence on the characteristics of Collective Action Initiatives (CAIs), investigating their role within the European energy sector. It analyses and presents results of a survey administered in six European countries:
Veronica Lupi, Chiara Candelise, Merce Almuni Calull, Sarah Delvaux, Pieter Valkering, Wit Hubert, Alessandro Sciullo, Nele Ivask, Esther van der Waal, Izaskun Jimenez Iturriza, Daniele Paci, Nives Della Valle, Giorgos Koukoufikis, Tessa Dunlop   +13 more
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Bottom-up Initiatives for Photovoltaic: Incentives and Barriers

Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, 2014
When facing the challenge of restructuring the energy system, bottom-up initiatives can aid the diffusion of decentralized and clean energy technologies.
Kathrin Reinsberger, Alfred Posch
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Community Acceptance of Wind Energy: Lessons from a Case Study on a Local Participatory Project in Pays Des Mauges (West France)

European Countryside, 2021
This article focuses on the community acceptance of wind parks in a rural territory in western France, in a country where they are not much developed yet.
Pierre Geneviève, Mazaud Caroline
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Agent-Based Model of Citizen Energy Communities Used to Negotiate Bilateral Contracts in Electricity Markets

Smart Cities, 2022
The worldwide targets for carbon-neutral societies increased the penetration of distributed generation and storage. Smart cities now play a key role in achieving these targets by considering the alliances of their demand and supply assets as local ...
Hugo Algarvio
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Piloting Citizen Science Methods to Measure Perceptions of Carbon Footprint and Energy Content of Food

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2020
There is a food knowledge disconnect between the food research community, and the general population. Food experts know detailed information about foods, but there is a lack of understanding about what citizens know.
Beth Armstrong, Gemma Bridge, Libby Oakden, Christian Reynolds, Christian Reynolds, Changqiong Wang, Luca A Panzone, Ximena Schmidt Rivera, Astrid Kause, Charles Ffoulkes, Coleman Krawczyk, Grant Miller, Stephen Serjeant   +12 more
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Citizen Participation and Engagement in Local Energy Communities: Governing Sustainable Energy Transitions Through Human-Centric Approaches

Energies
Local energy communities (LECs) are instruments that foster citizen-driven sustainable energy transition, since they manage the generation, exchange and distribution of clean energy.
Anthony Jnr. Bokolo
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