Citizen-driven Renewable Energy (RE) projects of various kinds, known collectively as
community energy (CE), have an important part to play in the worldwide transition to cleaner …

Smart technology alongside local energy systems are regularly considered critical for a low-
carbon transition. More recently, a growing body of literature has started to examine the (in) …

Objectives The aim of this report is to provide an overview of the activities, organisation and
implications of energy communities as participants across the energy system. It also aims to …

Energy Communities are playing an ever greater role in the European renewable energy
transition. As an instrument for citizen-led transformation, they are associated not only with …

By 30 June 2021, EU Member States were expected to transpose the recast Renewable
Energy Directive (RED II) which includes provisions for renewable energy communities …

The share of renewable energy is increasing throughout Europe. Yet, little is known about
how much can be attributed to different actors, other than those commercially active. This …

Community renewable energy initiatives are increasingly recognized as important actors to
trigger citizen investments in renewable energy facilities. Little is known, however, about the …

Social innovation is an important dimension of current transformations in energy systems. It
can refer to alternative business models, novel policy instruments, financing schemes …

Renewable energy (RE) prosumerism comes with promises and expectations of contributing
to sustainable and just energy systems. In its current process of becoming mainstream …

If transdisciplinary sustainability research is to contribute to sustainability transitions, issues
of power dynamics need to be understood and accounted for. However, examples of …