Policy challenges to community energy in the EU: A systematic review of the scientific literature

Context and agency in urban community energy initiatives: An analysis of six case studies from the Baltic Sea Region

(2020) S. Ruggiero et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Future pathways to mainstreaming community energy

(2019) Helen Roby et al.   ENERGY POLICY

‘Successful’ low-carbon energy transitions at the community level? An energy justice perspective

(2018) Luis Mundaca et al.   APPLIED ENERGY

The Role of Community Involvement Mechanisms in Reducing Resistance to Energy Infrastructure Development

(2018) Marie Hyland et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Contributions of Bottom-Up Energy Transitions in Germany: A Case Study Analysis

(2018) Ortzi Akizu et al.   Energies

The double-edged sword of decentralized energy autonomy

(2018) Russell McKenna   ENERGY POLICY

Social enterprise as a potential niche innovation breakout for low carbon transition

(2018) Joanne Hillman et al.   ENERGY POLICY

An exploration of the boundaries of ‘community’ in community renewable energy projects: Navigating between motivations and context

(2018) Jarra Hicks et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Understanding the scaling-up of community energy niches through strategic niche management theory: Insights from Finland

(2018) Salvatore Ruggiero et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Community energy – benefits and barriers: A comparative literature review of Community Energy in the UK, Germany and the USA, the benefits it provides for society and the barriers it faces

(2018) Vasco Brummer   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Taking stock of the local impacts of community owned renewable energy: A review and research agenda

(2018) Anna L. Berka et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Creating energy citizenship through material participation

(2018) Marianne Ryghaug et al.   SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE

Environmental justice and the expanding geography of wind power conflicts

(2018) Sofia Avila   Sustainability Science

The Role of Intermediaries in Supporting Local Low-Carbon Energy Initiatives

(2018) Beau Warbroek et al.   Sustainability

Energy cooperatives in Germany – an example of successful alternative economies?

(2018) B. Klagge et al.   Local Environment

Can the world kick its fossil-fuel addiction fast enough?

(2018) Jeff Tollefson   NATURE

Are auctions likely to deter community wind projects? And would this be problematic?

(2018) Katherina Grashof   ENERGY POLICY

A comparative analysis of the costs of onshore wind energy: Is there a case for community-specific policy support?

(2017) Anna L. Berka et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Harvesting energy: Place and local entrepreneurship in community-based renewable energy transition

(2017) Diana Süsser et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Energy justice at the end of the wire: Enacting community energy and equity in Wales

(2017) Alister Forman   ENERGY POLICY

Money, not morale: The impact of desires and beliefs on private investment in photovoltaic citizen participation initiatives

(2017) Eva Fleiß et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

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

(2017) Sören Becker et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

The emergence and diffusion of grassroots energy innovations: Building an interdisciplinary approach

(2017) Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

An interdisciplinary review of energy storage for communities: Challenges and perspectives

(2017) David Parra et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Distributed energy infrastructure paradigm: Community microgrids in a new institutional economics context

(2017) Emi Minghui Gui et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

How does a pioneer community energy project succeed in practice? The case of the Samsø Renewable Energy Island

(2017) Karl Sperling   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Financial incentives to mobilise local citizens as investors in low-carbon technologies: A systematic literature review

(2017) Joseph Curtin et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

The role of community leadership in the development of grassroots innovations

(2017) Mari Martiskainen   Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Energy sprawl, land taking and distributed generation: towards a multi-layered density

(2016) Stefano Moroni et al.   ENERGY POLICY

What are community energy companies trying to accomplish? An empirical investigation of investment motives in the German case

(2016) Lars Holstenkamp et al.   ENERGY POLICY

What are retail investors' risk-return preferences towards renewable energy projects? A choice experiment in Germany

(2016) Sarah Salm et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Explaining the diversity of motivations behind community renewable energy

(2016) Thomas Bauwens   ENERGY POLICY

Energetic communities for community energy: A review of key issues and trends shaping integrated community energy systems

(2016) Binod Prasad Koirala et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Socio-economic impacts of community wind power projects in Northern Scotland

(2016) Lasse Okkonen et al.   RENEWABLE ENERGY

Balancing hydropower and biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong

(2016) K. O. Winemiller et al.   SCIENCE

Energy transitions in small-scale regions – What we can learn from a regional innovation systems perspective

(2015) Jannika Mattes et al.   ENERGY POLICY

‘We are a community [but] that takes a certain amount of energy’: Exploring shared visions, social action, and resilience in place-based community-led energy initiatives

(2015) K.A. Parkhill et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Is there a case for community-based equity participation in Scottish on-shore wind energy production? Gaps in evidence and research needs

(2015) Bill Slee   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Renewable micro-generation of heat and electricity—Review on common and missing socio-technical configurations

(2015) Jouni K. Juntunen et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Methods and tools for community energy planning: A review

(2015) Zishuo Huang et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Power to the people: Local community initiatives and the transition to sustainable energy

(2015) Tineke van der Schoor et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

The geography of sustainability transitions: Review, synthesis and reflections on an emergent research field

(2015) Teis Hansen et al.   Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Scaling up local carbon action: the role of partnerships, networks and policy

(2015) Jo Hamilton et al.   Carbon Management

Wind farms — Where and how to place them? A choice experiment approach to measure consumer preferences for characteristics of wind farm establishments in Sweden

(2014) Kristina Ek et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Energy autonomy in Le Mené: A French case of grassroots innovation

(2014) Melike Yalçın-Riollet et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Local civil society based renewable energy organisations in the Netherlands: Exploring the factors that stimulate their emergence and development

(2014) Frank Pieter Boon et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Communities matter: Institutional preconditions for community renewable energy

(2014) Steffen Wirth   ENERGY POLICY

Local power: exploring the motivations of mayors and key success factors for local municipalities to go 100% renewable energy

(2014) Henner Busch et al.   Energy Sustainability and Society

A thousand flowers blooming? An examination of community energy in the UK

(2013) Gill Seyfang et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Governing community energy—Feed-in tariffs and the development of community wind energy schemes in the United Kingdom and Germany

(2013) Colin Nolden   ENERGY POLICY

Grassroots innovations in community energy: The role of intermediaries in niche development

(2013) Tom Hargreaves et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Public Values and Community Energy: Lessons from the US and UK

(2013) Steven Hoffman et al.   Sustainability

Mobilizing community energy

(2012) Elizabeth Bomberg et al.   ENERGY POLICY

The Role of Ownership in Determining the Rural Economic Benefits of On-shore Wind Farms

(2012) Euan Phimister et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

Do alternative energy sources displace fossil fuels?

(2012) Richard York   Nature Climate Change

Decentralized electricity generation from renewable sources as a chance for local economic development: a qualitative study of two pioneer regions in Germany

(2012) Britta Klagge et al.   Energy Sustainability and Society

Centralisation and decentralisation in strategic municipal energy planning in Denmark

(2011) Karl Sperling et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Can premium tariffs for micro-generation and small scale renewable heat help the fuel poor, and if so, how? Case studies of innovative finance for community energy schemes in the UK

(2011) R.W. Saunders et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Social impacts of community renewable energy projects: findings from a woodfuel case study

(2011) Jennifer C. Rogers et al.   ENERGY POLICY

The research agenda on social acceptance of distributed generation in smart grids: Renewable as common pool resources

(2011) Maarten Wolsink   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Distributed small-scale wind in New Zealand: Advantages, barriers and policy support instruments

(2009) Martin Barry et al.   ENERGY POLICY

From private lives to collective action: Recruitment and participation incentives for a community energy program

(2009) Steven M. Hoffman et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Trust and community: Exploring the meanings, contexts and dynamics of community renewable energy

(2009) Gordon Walker et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Public perceptions of opportunities for community-based renewable energy projects

(2008) J.C. Rogers et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Public acceptance of renewable energies: Results from case studies in Germany

(2008) Jan Zoellner et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Community renewable energy: What should it mean?

(2007) Gordon Walker et al.   ENERGY POLICY