Financing renewable energy infrastructures via financial citizen participation – The case of Germany

By Özgür Yıldız. 2014

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Subfields: Accounting, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Analyzing the determinants of the size of investments by community renewable energy members: Findings and policy implications from Flanders (2019, background): “…allocate it to the funding of community development projects, cooperatives which may allow (limited) profit distribution to individual members, and so-called closed-end funds in Germany, which are more similar to traditional for-profit investment vehicles (Enzensberger et al., 2003; Yildiz, 2014).”
The importance of project finance for renewable energy projects (2018, background): “Thereby, project finance is an alternative to the German energy cooperatives that engage in multiple projects (Yildiz, 2014).”
What is prosumerism for? Exploring the normative dimensions of decentralised energy transitions (2020, background): “Although most prevalent in Germany and France, municipal authorities have sought to take back control of various elements of essential infrastructure, including both energy supply and distribution [91].”
Responding to policy change: New business models for renewable energy cooperatives – Barriers perceived by cooperatives’ members (2017, methodology): “These include sub-categories of key resources (e.g. wind power, PV) and key activities (e.g. generation, transmission & distribution, retail, consumption-related services), both used by Richter (2013b), Aslani and Mohaghar (2013) and Yildiz (2014).”
Three is a crowd? Exploring the potential of crowdfunding for renewable energy in the Netherlands (2016, background): “These community shares model have also been described for the German context as business models for investment in renewables with active citizen participation (Yildiz, 2014) and civic corporate solar systems (Dewald and Truffer, 2011).”
Explaining the Diversity of Motivations Behind Community Renewable Energy (2016, background): “Similarly, 47% of the total installed RE capacity in Germany in 2012 was owned by individuals, farmers or CRE initiatives (trend:research Gmb and Leuphana Universität; Yildiz, 2014).”
Financing the civic energy sector: How financial institutions affect ownership models in Germany and the United Kingdom (2016, unknown): “In Germany there has been some more explicit analysis of the role of financial institutions in civic energy [48] [49].”