The role of cooperatives in overcoming the barriers to adoption of renewable energy

Viardot, Éric

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2013.08.034

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“…The managers rarely indicated individual preference for these approaches; instead they mostly suggested them as an alternative/complementary option to LEM ownership approaches. This evidence could be explained by the fact that these business approaches have proven their market success in the context of the energy transition in public or cooperatives businesses (Viardot, 2013;Yildiz et al, 2015). However, so far they have not been at the core of the utilities' market strategy (Richter, 2013a).…”

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Business Model Innovation for Local Energy Management: A Perspective from Swiss Utilities

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The successful deployment of the energy transition relies on a deep reorganization of the energy market. Business model innovation is recognized as a key driver of this process. This work contributes to this topic by providing to potential local energy management (LEM) stakeholders and policy makers a conceptual framework guiding the LEM business model innovation. The main determinants characterizing LEM concepts and impacting its business model innovation are identified through literature reviews on distributed generation typologies and customer/investor preferences related to new business opportunities emerging with the energy transition. Afterwards, the relation between the identified determinants and the LEM business model solution space is analyzed based on semi-structured interviews with managers of Swiss utilities companies. The collected managers' preferences serve as explorative indicators supporting the business model innovation process and provide insights into policy makers on challenges and opportunities related to LEM.

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Business Model Innovation for Local Energy Management: A Perspective from Swiss Utilities

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“…Those favourable characteristics can also be attributed to the case of on-shore wind energy, where the simplicity of the power generation process, the high reliability of the technology and the availability of service providers (in countries where many RE cooperatives are found today) facilitate its application. In addition, an increasing number of rural biomass farmers' cooperatives are documented in Austria and the South Tyrol province of Northern Italy [156].…”

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“…CRE literature aims to classify the drivers and barriers for citizens' energy initiatives [156], [157]. They can be identified within the boundaries set by systemic factors (as classified in ref.…”

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The challenging paradigm of interrelated energy systems towards a more sustainable future

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Martins

Carvalho³

et al. 2018

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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This paper brings together several contemporary topics in energy systems aiming to provide a literature review based reflection on how several interrelated energy systems can contribute together to a more sustainable world. Some directions are discussed, such as the improvement of the energy efficiency and environmental performance of the systems, the development of new technologies, the increase of the use of renewable energy sources, the promotion of holistic and multidisciplinary studies, and the implementation of new management rules and "eco-friendly and sustainable" oriented policies at different scales. The interrelations of the diverse energy systems are also discussed in order to address their main social-economic-environmental impacts. The subjects covered include the assessment of the electricity market and its main players (demand, supply, distribution), the evaluation of some urban systems (buildings, transportation, commuting), the analysis of the implementation of renewable energy cooperatives, the discussion of the diffusion of the electric vehicle and the importance of new bioenergy systems. This paper also presents relevant research carried out in the framework of both the Energy for Sustainability Initiative of the University of Coimbra and the Sustainable Energy Systems focus area of the MIT-Portugal Program. To conclude, several research topics that should be addressed in the near future are proposed.

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“…This transition can be attributed to several intertwined facts: (1) the increasing awareness of the inherent complexity among energy systems, societies and the environment [6,56], (2) the widespread diffusion of new enhanced technologies, such as IoT, and their hybridization with modern ICT [42,47], (3) the pursuit of national and supranational energy policies promoting low carbon emission, energy efficiency and sustainability [12], and (4) the emergence of new actors such as energy cooperatives and energy communities in the energy value chain [58], and the transformation of traditional actors such as housing associations and amateur energy managers [23]. Under these conditions, many new challenges and possibilities emerge, particularity from an ST perspective [50].…”

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Embedding Internet-of-Things in Large-Scale Socio-technical Systems: A Community-Oriented Design in Future Smart Grids

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In traditional engineering, technologies are viewed as the core of the engineering design, in a physical world with a large number of diverse technological artefacts. The real world, however, also includes a huge number of social components -people, communities, institutions, regulations and everything that exists in the human mind -that have shaped and been shaped by the technological components. Smart urban ecosystems are examples of large-scale Socio-Technical Systems (STS) that rely on technologies, in particular on the Internet-of-Things (IoT), within a complex social context where the technologies are embedded. Designing applications that embed both social complexity and IoT in large-scale STS requires a Socio-Technical (ST) approach, which has not yet entered the mainstream of design practice. This chapter reviews the literature and presents our experience of adopting an ST approach to the design of a community-oriented smart grid application. It discusses the challenges, process and outcomes of this apporach, and provides a set of lessons learned derived from this experience that are also deemed relevant to the design of other smart urban ecosystems.

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The role of cooperatives in overcoming the barriers to adoption of renewable energy

Cited by 142 publications

References 42 publications

Business Model Innovation for Local Energy Management: A Perspective from Swiss Utilities

Business Model Innovation for Local Energy Management: A Perspective from Swiss Utilities

The challenging paradigm of interrelated energy systems towards a more sustainable future

Embedding Internet-of-Things in Large-Scale Socio-technical Systems: A Community-Oriented Design in Future Smart Grids

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