What drives the development of community energy in Europe? The case of wind power cooperatives

By Thomas Bauwens, Boris Gotchev, Lars Holstenkamp. 2016

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Subfields: Finance, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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Statistical Evidence on the Role of Energy Cooperatives for the Energy Transition in European Countries (2018, methodology): “In 2014, Her Majesty’s Treasury announced that both the Enterprise Investment Scheme and the Seed tax relief would be removed from projects that qualify for FiT, RO or the Renewable Heat Incentive [7].”
Explaining the Diversity of Motivations Behind Community Renewable Energy (2016, background): “installed wind turbines were owned by wind power cooperatives and single owners (Bauwens et al., 2016).”
A review of the social-ecological systems framework: applications, methods, modifications, and challenges (2018, background): “…(Cinner et al. 2012, Schlüter et al. 2013, Stevenson and Tissot 2014, Ban et al. 2015, 2017, Williams and Tai 2016), coastal development (Kanwar et al. 2016, Schlüter et al. 2019), energy systems (Ye 2014, Bauwens et al. 2016), and pollution management (Amblard 2012, Epstein et al. 2014b).”
Circular futures: What Will They Look Like? (2020, background): “Improvements in solar and wind energy generation at the community level may in the future allow for a departure from large power generators, and the grid may be complemented or replaced by local energy storage solutions (Bauwens, 2016; Bauwens et al., 2016).”
Peer-to-Peer Energy Systems for Connected Communities: A Review of Recent Advances and Emerging Challenges (2020, background): “of trust from the public, connected community enhances social acceptance of technology at the local level - steered by trustworthy individual prosumer and organizations rooted in the local community [23].”
Responding to policy change: New business models for renewable energy cooperatives – Barriers perceived by cooperatives’ members (2017, background): “Community energy projects, especially renewable energy cooperatives (RECs), have become an increasingly important element of energy markets in many European countries (Viardot et al., 2013; Bauwens et al., 2016).”
Analyzing the determinants of the size of investments by community renewable energy members: Findings and policy implications from Flanders (2019, methodology): “…Ecopower members are only allowed to sell their shares after a period of six years, in order to avoid large fluctuations in the cooperative's outstanding capital.6 In addition, Bauwens (2016) revealed that the members who joined during these different phases have different motivation profiles.”
Between grassroots and treetops: community power and institutional dependence in the renewable energy sector in Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands. (2018, methodology): “demonstrate [12]: one the one hand, the environment has become more hostile for GIs, and on the other, GIs pool resources and coordinate actions to survive in this hostile environment.”