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Community Energy for enhancing the energy transition
CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation, 2020 In the process towards energy transition from fossil fuel based energy to renewables systems, the way to involve final users in the energy production is still complex.
Matteo Bilardo +5 more
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Renewable Energy Communities as a New Actor in Home Energy Savings
Urban Planning, 2022 Renewable energy communities (RECs) might be an interesting new stakeholder in stimulating home energy-saving efforts by tenants and homeowners due to their potential of raising awareness locally and gaining public support for low-carbon energy and ...
Frans H. J. M. Coenen, Thomas Hoppe
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Energy communities: a Dutch case study
, 2020 In this chapter the concepts of citizen energy communities and the energy and flexibility services they could provide are discussed. As these communities are arising throughout the world, their underlying motivations and barriers are examined. The main motivation for prosumers to join an energy community is increased environmental awareness, while the ...
Reijnders, Victor M.J.J. +2 more
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Community-Based Virtual Power Plants: Against All Odds?
Proceedings, 2019 Based on a European project entitled “Community-based Virtual Power Plants’ (Interreg 2017–2010) this paper discusses opportunities for community energy projects—focusing on the example of community-based virtual power plants.
Ruth Mourik +3 more
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Collective Renewable Energy Prosumers and the Promises of the Energy Union: Taking Stock
Energies, 2020 A key strategy in the European Union’s ambition to establish an ‘Energy Union’ that is not just clean, but also fair, consists of empowering citizens to actively interact with the energy market as self-consumers or prosumers.
Lanka Horstink +9 more
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EnergiesThe electrification of residential heating systems, crucial for achieving net-zero emissions, poses significant challenges for low-voltage distribution networks.
Zaid Al-Atari, Rob Shipman, Mark Gillott
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Community Funding for Geothermal Energy
European Geologist, 2022 Community funding is a tool to involve communities in geothermal projects in such a way that they can be involved in the decision making around the project and/or receive some of the benefits. There are different alternative finance instruments that give
Georgie Friederichs +3 more
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, 2023 This study sets out to analyse how Energy Communities are currently implemented in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark, and furthermore looks into similar models in three other European countries. In relation to Energy Communities, Nordic Energy Research (NER) also wants to investigate questions linked to market access, grid ownership and operation ...
Eriksson Berggren, Sebastian +9 more
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Can Energy Democracy Thrive in a Non-democracy?
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2018 This paper argues that energy democracy could manifest in terms of public engagement at the community level, free of state intervention, government fostering, and donor support, even in locations where governments have been in flux from a democracy to a ...
Laurence L. Delina
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Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2021 A digital twin is regarded as a potential solution to optimize positive energy districts (PED). This paper presents a compact review about digital twins for PED from aspects of concepts, working principles, tools/platforms, and applications, in order to ...
Xingxing Zhang +6 more
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