Research Articles: Community Clean Energy Programs: Proficiencies and Practices

Berry, David

doi:10.1017/s146604661300001x

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“…The notion of an energy community has gained momentum as a grassroots movement over the past decade in various countries, particularly in Europe and North America, including the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Ontario, Canada [20,55,183,184]. As per reference [84], there are more than 420 energy communities in Great Britain.…”

Section: Progressmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of Renewable Energy Communities: Concepts, Scope, Progress, Challenges, and Recommendations

Ahmed,

Ali,

D’Angola

2024

Sustainability

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In recent times, there has been a significant shift from centralized energy systems to decentralized ones. These systems aim to satisfy local energy needs using renewable resources within the community. This approach leads to decreased complexity and costs, improved efficiency, and enhanced local resilience and supports energy independence, thereby advancing the transition toward zero carbon emissions. Community energy plays a pivotal role globally, particularly in European countries, driven by citizen engagement in generating power from renewable sources. The European Union, known for its focus on social innovation and citizen participation, recognizes the essential role of energy communities in its latest energy strategy. The concept for creating local energy communities or community-based energy projects has gained worldwide attention, demonstrating the economic, environmental, and efficiency benefits for using renewable energy sources. However, there is a noticeable gap in research covering all the updated aspects of renewable energy communities. This article provides an in-depth review of energy communities, especially renewable energy communities, exploring their concepts, scope, benefits, and key activities. It also sheds light on their progress by presenting results and analyses. Some countries have shown significant advancement, others are in the initial stages, and a few have partially adopted REC implementation according to the Renewable Energy Directive II. Additionally, it discusses the main challenges and potential recommendations to enhance the growth of renewable energy communities. This work is a valuable resource, emphasizing the importance of citizen involvement and offering insights into various aspects of community energy for sustainable energy transition. It also provides practical insights and valuable information for policymakers, researchers, industry professionals, and community members who are keen on promoting sustainable, community-driven energy systems.

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Section: Progressmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of Renewable Energy Communities: Concepts, Scope, Progress, Challenges, and Recommendations

Ahmed,

Ali,

D’Angola

2024

Sustainability

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“…Seventh, we found that energy planning studies investigated municipal or citizen-led energy plans in cities, regions or smaller communities [13,[50][51][52][53][54]. This planning is a complex and time-consuming process, which was supported by methodologies that helped develop energy system variants.…”

Section: Theoretical Approaches Of Community Energymentioning

confidence: 99%

The power of friends and neighbors: a review of community energy research

Schoor

Scholtens

2019

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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The threat of climate change and the Paris agreement to limit global temperature rise to well below 2⁰ Celsius and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5⁰ Celsius has stimulated research on and broad commitment to community energy. We investigate this research. We assess how nine different approaches study community energy over time, which methods they use, which countries and regions they focus on, and where they discuss and publish. We analyse the keywords used to identify the research and investigate how these differ along the approaches. We show that community energy research took off only very recently and that especially 'developed' countries, in particular, the United Kingdom, United States, Germany and the Netherlands, are studied. Different networks contribute to the understanding of community energy, however the maturity and reach of these networks varies and there is limited exchange between research networks.

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“…Some authors have analysed the policies and initiatives of governments and other organisations for the promotion of SECs in the UK (Walker et al, 2010;Walker et al, 2007) or USA (Pollin, 2012;Berry, 2013).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%