The adoption and encouragement of community energy, that is, the incentive to develop
renewable energy projects with community participation and ownership, is a key ingredient …

Community energy is associated with a wide range of benefits, for example, providing new
social mechanisms for learning, facilitating economic development, and in engaging local …

Community-led sustainable energy projects have flourished lately in the UK. The most
substantial research to date identified (in 2005) over 500 such initiatives (Walker et al …

Background Community initiatives for renewable energy are emerging across Europe but
with varying numbers, success rates and strategies. A literature overview identifies …

Community energy makes an important contribution to sustainable energy generation,
reduction and management, and is a desirable feature of a low carbon future. Renewable …

Solving energy issues requires integrated solutions at all societal and institutional levels.
Community renewable energy and energy efficiency initiatives offer a complementary model …

In this paper, we analyse community energy (CE) projects in urban settings. Building on
insights from the literature on the geography of sustainability transitions, we examine how …

Background Energy cooperatives are a prominent and common form of community energy.
Community energy has the potential to increase actor diversity and local acceptance of …

Small‐scale, decentralized and community‐owned renewable energy is widely
acknowledged to be a desirable feature of low carbon futures, but faces a range of …

A large-scale transition to low-carbon energy sources is necessary to mitigate climate
change. In practice, however, when new energy projects are proposed in specific places …