This article systematically reviews the emerging field of research on business models for
renewable energies, differentiating between developing and industrialized countries. The …

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

The European potential for renewable electricity is sufficient to enable fully renewable
supply on different scales, from self-sufficient, subnational regions to an interconnected …

This paper explores the evolving renewable energy 'prosumer'phenomenon in the United
Kingdom (UK). It identifies and evaluates how prosumer business models can exist beyond …

The European legislative framework asks for massive application of renewable energy
source (particularly of photovoltaic systems) in the built environment to face the recent …

Community energy has been proposed as a new policy tool to help achieve the transition to
a low-carbon energy system, but the evidence base for this strategy is partial and …

Energy systems are in transformation towards increasingly renewable, decentralised,
demand responsive and smart configurations. This has led to advocacy of the 'prosumer' …

Innovation management falls short in solving urgent societal problems, if it neglects the
power of networks and the values of their constituent actors. Even though network and …

Research attention on decentralized autonomous energy systems has increased
exponentially in the past three decades, as demonstrated by the absolute number of …

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 …