Community-based energy systems are gaining traction among policymakers and
practitioners as promising models for implementing a low-carbon energy transition. As a …

Abstract The advantages of Energy Communities (ECs) range from giving energy end-
consumers an active role in the energy market to the increase of renewable energy sources …

Digitalization is an increasingly important direction of energy innovation moving forward.
Nevertheless, which emerging digital technology is more crucial during the energy sector …

While climate change mitigation agenda and energy governance are the central concerns of
climatologists and energy-environmental scientists, the mainstream literature seems silent …

Energy scholars have associated energy communities with the notions of energy citizenship
and energy democracy, as citizen-based democratic governance plays critical roles in their …

Worldwide, the use of fossil fuels covers almost 80% of the entire energy needs. In the
European Union (EU), 2020 represents a watershed: for the first time, renewables were the …

Although complementarity achieved by combining multiple renewable energy sources
(RES) is an important method to increase shares of RES, it is often overlooked in policy …

The Climate Pact and the European Green Deal constitute the main components of the
European Union (EU)'s climate change policy. Energy transition, that is, transformation to a …

Cities as large centres of energy demand and population are important spatially and
materially in a renewable energy transition. This study draws on available literature on …

Unless just and inclusive, transitions to low carbon-energy systems are unlikely to receive
sufficient legitimacy and broad public support. While research on inequalities and injustices …