Overview
- An invaluable account of the renewable energy communities movement across continental Europe
- Focus on the involvement of renewable energy communities in energy markets
- Invaluable reference for those interested in energy policy and the role of citizen-led energy initiatives
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume addresses renewable energy communities, and in particular renewable energy cooperatives (REScoops), in the context of the revised EU Renewables Directive. It provides a comprehensive account of the history and development of the renewable energy community movement in over six different countries of continental Europe. It addresses their visions, strategy, organisation, agency, and more particularly the challenges they encounter. This is of particular importance to gain more understanding into how renewable energy communities fare in domestic energy markets where they are confronted with regime institutions, structures and incumbents’ agency that tend to favour maintaining of the status quo while blocking attempts to empower and institutionalise renewable energy communities as market entrants having a disruptive, radical green and localist agenda. This volume will be an invaluable reference for academics and practitioners with an interest in social innovation insustainable transitions, the role of community energy in energy markets, their agency, as well as an outlook to the impact that the EU Renewables Directive may have to change national legislation and policy frameworks to create a level playing field that is essentially more fair and beneficial to renewable energy communities.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Thomas Hoppe holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration specializing in Public Policy and Environmental Policy, and a PhD in Public Policy at the University of Twente. He is currently Associate Professor within the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University of Technology. His research line is about governance of energy transition in cities and regions, focusing on low carbon cities, policy and social innovation. This more specifically includes community energy and co-creation. Dr. Hoppe has been involved in multiple European Union research projects and has co-edited eight special issues in academic journals. He is chairman of the Platform of Social Innovation in the Energy Transition, and is in the Editorial Board of Energy, Sustainability and Society.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Renewable Energy Communities and the Low Carbon Energy Transition in Europe
Editors: Frans H. J. M. Coenen, Thomas Hoppe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84440-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84439-4Published: 04 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84442-4Published: 05 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84440-0Published: 03 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 289
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Economic Geography, Environment, general, Geography, general