The Contribution of Energy Communities to the Upscaling of Photovoltaics in Germany and Italy

Wierling, A.; Zeiß, Jan Pedro; Lupi, Veronica; Candelise, Chiara; Sciullo, Alessandro; Schwanitz, Valeria Jana

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“…Table 9 provides further evidence on this point, by zooming in renewable energy generation technologies installed by CAIs, and showing a prevalence of photovoltaic (PV), with a strong focus on rooftop PV installations. This result is in line with evidence presented in the literature [6,25], which links the emergence of CAIs (energy communities) since the late 2000s with the generous Feed-in Tariff support scheme for PV deployed in several European countries (Germany and Italy in particular). Considering the combinations of answers (see Appendix A), we can extrapolate that 23% of Belgian CAIs exclusively performed PV activities, while 9% performed only wind-on shore activities.…”

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“…They are understood as citizendriven initiatives that engage collective activities favoring energy transitions at a social, economic, and environmental level. The most common CAIs are community energy initiatives [2][3][4][5][6]. Community renewable energy initiatives were born more than a century ago in several European countries to ensure access and electricity, with communities producing and distributing renewables [4,7].…”

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A Characterization of European Collective Action Initiatives and Their Role as Enablers of Citizens’ Participation in the Energy Transition

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This paper provides novel additional evidence on the characteristics of Collective Action Initiatives (CAIs), investigating their role within the European energy sector. It analyses and presents results of a survey administered in six European countries: the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Poland, Estonia, and Spain. CAIs are studied in light of four key dimensions, those being their creation dynamics, the way they are organized, financed, and the activities they undertake. The results presented are also interpreted to reflect on their role as drivers of social innovation (SI) within energy transition in Europe. The analysis shows that the contribution of CAIs to the energy transition has a much wider scope than the development of energy projects and provision of energy services. CAIs are intrinsically socially innovative models of implementation as characterised by a strong level of citizen involvement and participation. Moreover, they have a potential multi-level role in the energy transition, from the technological and social perspectives. Indeed, alongside traditional energy activities, our results show that CAIs are evolving and expanding towards socially innovative activities, raising awareness on environmental issues, promoting citizens’ mobilization, and fostering social inclusion.

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“…As for the end users, it is worth highlighting that prosumers (both as individual households and collective initiatives, such as energy co-ops and communities) have been gaining more and more relevance over the past two decades as a catalyzer for the diffusion of renewable technologies, mainly triggered by the feed-in-tariff incentive schemes in many EU countries [19]. Again, a major challenge that prosumers and energy communities have to face for being actually able to satisfy their own energy demand is the discontinuity of power production from RES.…”

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Solid-State Hydrogen Storage Systems and the Relevance of a Gender Perspective

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This paper aims at addressing the exploitation of solid-state carriers for hydrogen storage, with attention paid both to the technical aspects, through a wide review of the available integrated systems, and to the social aspects, through a preliminary overview of the connected impacts from a gender perspective. As for the technical perspective, carriers to be used for solid-state hydrogen storage for various applications can be classified into two classes: metal and complex hydrides. Related crystal structures and corresponding hydrogen sorption properties are reviewed and discussed. Fundamentals of thermodynamics of hydrogen sorption evidence the key role of the enthalpy of reaction, which determines the operating conditions (i.e., temperatures and pressures). In addition, it rules the heat to be removed from the tank during hydrogen absorption and to be delivered to the tank during hydrogen desorption. Suitable values for the enthalpy of hydrogen sorption reaction for operating conditions close to ambient (i.e., room temperature and 1–10 bar of hydrogen) are close to 30 kJ·molH2−1. The kinetics of the hydrogen sorption reaction is strongly related to the microstructure and to the morphology (i.e., loose powder or pellets) of the carriers. Usually, the kinetics of the hydrogen sorption reaction is rather fast, and the thermal management of the tank is the rate-determining step of the processes. As for the social perspective, the paper arguments that, as it occurs with the exploitation of other renewable innovative technologies, a wide consideration of the social factors connected to these processes is needed to reach a twofold objective: To assess the extent to which a specific innovation might produce positive or negative impacts in the recipient socioeconomic system and, from a sociotechnical perspective, to explore the potential role of the social components and dynamics in fostering the diffusion of the innovation itself. Within the social domain, attention has been paid to address the underexplored relationship between the gender perspective and the enhancement of hydrogen-related energy storage systems. This relationship is taken into account both in terms of the role of women in triggering the exploitation of hydrogen-based storage playing as experimenter and promoter, and in terms of the intertwined impact of this innovation in their current conditions, at work, and in daily life.

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“…As for the end users, it is worth to higlight that prosumers (both as individual housholds and collective initiatives, such as energy coop and communities) have been gaining more and more relevance for the past 2 decades as a catalyzer for renewables technologies diffusion mainly triggered by the feed-in-tariffs incentives schemes in many EU countries. [12] Again, a major challenge that prosumers and energy communities have to face for being actually able to satisfy their own energy demand is the discontinuity of power production from RES. Therefore, hydrogenrelated storage solution can play a crucial role in fostering their diffusion and development, thus making the national energy system able to exploit the funding and policy opportunities coming from the extraordinary convergence of the emergency funds provided by Next Gen EU and the policy framework resulting from the national transposition of th EU directives on Energy Market and Renewables.…”

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Solid-State Hydrogen Storage: Materials, Systems and the Relevance of a Gender Perspective

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This paper aims at addressing the exploitation of solid-state carriers for hydrogen storage, with attention paid both to the technical aspects, through a wide review of the available integrated systems, and to the social aspects, through a preliminary overview of the connected impacts from a gender perspective. As for the technical perspective, carriers to be used for solid-state hydrogen storage for various applications can be classified into two classes: metal and complex hydrides. Related crystal structures and corresponding hydrogen sorption properties are reviewed and discussed. Fundamentals of thermodynamics of hydrogen sorption evidences the key role of the enthalpy of reaction, which determines the operating conditions (i.e. temperatures and pressures). In addition, it rules the heat to be removed from the tank during hydrogen absorption and to be delivered to the tank during hydrogen desorption. Suitable values for the enthalpy of hydrogen sorption reaction for operating conditions close to ambient (i.e. room temperature and 1-10 bar of hydrogen) are close to 30 kJ·molH2 1. The kinetics of hydrogen sorption reaction is strongly related to the microstructure and to the morphology (i.e. loose powder or pellets) of the carriers. Usually, kinetics of hydrogen sorption reaction is rather fast, and the thermal management of the tank is the rate determining step of the processes. As for the social perspective, various scenarios for the applications in different socio-economic contexts of solid-state hydrogen storage technologies are described. As it occurs with the exploitation of other renewables innovative technologies, a wide consideration of the social factors connected to these processes is needed to assess the extent to which a specific innovation might produce positive or negative impacts in the recipient socio-economic system and to explore the potential role of the social components and dynamics in fostering the diffusion of the innovation itself. Attention has been addressed to the gender perspective, in view of the enhancement of hydrogen-related energy storage systems, intended both in terms of the role of women in triggering the exploitation of hydrogen-based storage as well as to the impact of this innovation in their current conditions, at work and in daily life.

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The Contribution of Energy Communities to the Upscaling of Photovoltaics in Germany and Italy

Cited by 19 publications

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A Characterization of European Collective Action Initiatives and Their Role as Enablers of Citizens’ Participation in the Energy Transition

A Characterization of European Collective Action Initiatives and Their Role as Enablers of Citizens’ Participation in the Energy Transition

Solid-State Hydrogen Storage Systems and the Relevance of a Gender Perspective

Solid-State Hydrogen Storage: Materials, Systems and the Relevance of a Gender Perspective

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