COPs and 'robbers?'Better understanding community energy and toward a Communities of Place then Interest approach

C Walker, G Poelzer, R Leonhardt, B Noble… - Energy Research & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Following its growing popularity in practice, social scientists have turned their attention to a
greater understanding of community energy (CE). Beginning with Walker and Devine …

From tip to toes: Mapping community energy models in Canada and New Zealand

CE Hoicka, JL MacArthur - Energy Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
Community energy is associated with a wide range of benefits, for example, providing new
social mechanisms for learning, facilitating economic development, and in engaging local …

[HTML][HTML] Analysing community-based initiatives for heating and cooling: a systematic and critical review

J Fouladvand, A Ghorbani, N Mouter… - Energy Research & Social …, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy communities are decentralized socio-technical systems where energy is jointly
generated and distributed among a community of households locally. As the energy that is …

[HTML][HTML] The state of the art of smart energy communities: a systematic review of strengths and limits

F Ceglia, E Marrasso, G Pallotta, C Roselli, M Sasso - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
The Smart Energy Community topic has attracted a lot of interest from policy, research
centres, companies and private citizens since 2018, when in Europe the recast of the …

[HTML][HTML] How municipalities support energy cooperatives: survey results from Germany and Switzerland

T Meister, B Schmid, I Seidl, B Klagge - Energy, sustainability and society, 2020 - Springer
Background Energy cooperatives are a prominent and common form of community energy.
Community energy has the potential to increase actor diversity and local acceptance of …

[HTML][HTML] Community energy meets smart grids: Reviewing goals, structure, and roles in Virtual Power Plants in Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands

LFM van Summeren, AJ Wieczorek… - Energy Research & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Community-driven energy initiatives are seen as important drivers of the energy transition.
So far these initiatives focused mainly on energy generation and conservation. Recently …

The long term future for community energy in Great Britain: A co-created vision of a thriving sector and steps towards realising it

T Braunholtz-Speight, C McLachlan, S Mander… - Energy Research & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Explorations of the longer-term potential for community energy to contribute to the energy
transition can shape policy and practice today. However, much community energy research …

The role for 'community'in carbon governance

G Walker - Wiley interdisciplinary reviews: climate change, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The notion of community‐based activity has increasingly been enrolled within carbon
governance discourses and programs of recognized and supported activity. Community is a …

[HTML][HTML] Community energy storage: A responsible innovation towards a sustainable energy system?

BP Koirala, E van Oost, H van der Windt - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
The decreasing cost of energy storage and increasing demand for local flexibility are
opening up new possibilities for energy storage deployment at the local level. Community …

Community energy and social entrepreneurship: Addressing purpose, organisation and embeddedness of renewable energy projects

S Becker, C Kunze, M Vancea - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017 - Elsevier
In many European countries, renewable energy has evolved through decentralised and
small-scale forms of organisation. These different initiatives are often denominated as …