Renewable Energy Communities in Positive Energy Districts: A Governance and Realisation Framework in Compliance with the Italian Regulation

R Trevisan, E Ghiani, F Pilo - Smart Cities, 2023 - mdpi.com
Renewable energy communities, first outlined in the European Directives and recently
transposed into the Italian regulatory framework, are introduced as innovative entities …

Rural energy communities as pillar towards low carbon future in Egypt: beyond COP27

A Abouaiana - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Egypt pays extraordinary attention to climate action, which is gaining momentum, coinciding
with reaching the peak of the status quo by hosting the 2022 United Nations Climate …

[HTML][HTML] A typology of community-based energy citizenship: An analysis of the ownership structure and institutional logics of 164 energy communities in France

A Dudka, N Moratal, T Bauwens - Energy Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Energy scholars have associated energy communities with the notions of energy citizenship
and energy democracy, as citizen-based democratic governance plays critical roles in their …

[HTML][HTML] Grid-optimal energy community planning from a systems perspective

S Kerscher, A Koirala, P Arboleya - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Energy communities (ECs) are a potential enabler for the socio-technical transition to carbon-
neutrality. Their emergence depends on setting the right course across various dimensions …

[HTML][HTML] An optimal real-time pricing strategy for aggregating distributed generation and battery storage systems in energy communities: A stochastic bilevel …

S Sarfarazi, S Mohammadi, D Khastieva… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The expansion of distributed electricity generation and the increasing capacity of installed
battery storage systems at the community level have posed challenges to efficient technical …

Mapping of energy communities in Europe: status quo and review of existing classifications

M Koltunov, S Pezzutto, A Bisello, G Lettner, A Hiesl… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
A lack of aggregate analysis concerning energy communities exists in the academic
literature. The authors utilized a combination of literature reviews and desk research to fill …

Energetic and economic performances of the energy community of magliano alpi after one year of piloting

E Ghiani, R Trevisan, GL Rosetti, S Olivero, L Barbero - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Italy's first renewable energy community, located in the municipality of Magliano Alpi, was
established under Italian Law 8/2020 on Energy Communities in December 2020. The …

Assessing energy communities' awareness on social media with a content and sentiment analysis

M Caratù, V Brescia, I Pigliautile, P Biancone - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The development of energy communities has the potential to support the energy transition
owing to the direct engagement of people who have the chance to become “prosumers” of …

Does social capital foster renewable energy cooperatives?

S Geskus, MB Punt, T Bauwens… - Journal of Economic …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In recent decades, renewable energy cooperatives have substantially increased their share
of renewable energy production. The operation of these cooperatives requires collective …

The energy community and the grid

A Gautier, J Jacqmin, JC Poudou - Resource and Energy Economics, 2025 - Elsevier
Energy communities involve various agents who decide to invest in renewable production
units. This paper examines how these communities interact with the energy system and can …