Taking stock of the local impacts of community owned renewable energy: A review and research agenda

AL Berka, E Creamer - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
A growing literature suggests that community owned renewable energy (CRE) projects have
the potential to deliver a range of environmental and local socio-economic benefits. There is …

Energy autonomy in sustainable communities—A review of key issues

C Rae, F Bradley - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Recent years have seen the successful development and deployment of a range of small
scale renewable energy systems. Driven in part by improving technical capability and by …

Carbon reduction in commercial building operations: A provincial retrospection in China

K Li, M Ma, X Xiang, W Feng, Z Ma, W Cai, X Ma - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The growing energy consumption in commercial building operations has slowed the pace of
carbon reduction in the building sector, which has hindered China's movement towards …

Carbon Kuznets curve in China's building operations: Retrospective and prospective trajectories

M Chen, M Ma, Y Lin, Z Ma, K Li - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
China has pledged to achieve peak carbon emissions by 2030 and to be carbon neutral by
the mid-century, and buildings will be the “last mile” sector in the transition to carbon …

Does community ownership affect public attitudes to wind energy? A case study from south-west Scotland

CR Warren, M McFadyen - Land use policy, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper presents the results of a study of public attitudes to onshore windfarm
development in south-west Scotland. Specifically, it explores the influences of different …

Energy communities in the transition to a low-carbon future: A taxonomical approach and some policy dilemmas

S Moroni, V Alberti, V Antoniucci, A Bisello - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
In calls for transition to a society in which energy production is based on renewable sources,
a fundamental role is increasingly assigned to so-called'energy communities'. The …

Public perceptions of opportunities for community-based renewable energy projects

JC Rogers, EA Simmons, I Convery, A Weatherall - Energy policy, 2008 - Elsevier
It now widely acknowledged that the UK needs to increase renewable energy capacity and it
has been claimed that community-based renewable energy projects, with high levels of …

Local civil society based renewable energy organisations in the Netherlands: Exploring the factors that stimulate their emergence and development

FP Boon, C Dieperink - Energy Policy, 2014 - Elsevier
In order to alleviate urgent and pressing environmental issues, a transition towards
decentralised production and consumption of renewable energy is necessary. The …

The relevance of the cooperative model in the field of renewable energy

B Huybrechts, S Mertens - Annals of Public and Cooperative …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
While 'traditional'cooperatives operating for a long time in fields such as banking,
agriculture, or retail, have received important attention in the cooperative literature, much …

Community solar energy initiatives in India: A pathway for addressing energy poverty and sustainability?

G Joshi, K Yenneti - Energy and Buildings, 2020 - Elsevier
Sustainable technologies for social mobilization and community empowerment are
contemporary phenomena of grassroots innovation movements. The origins of the …