Collective Renewable Energy Prosumers and the Promises of the Energy Union: Taking Stock
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Resumo: | A key strategy in the European Union’s ambition to establish an ‘Energy Union’ that is not just clean, but also fair, consists of empowering citizens to actively interact with the energy market as self-consumers or prosumers. Although renewable energy sources (RES) prosumerism has been growing for at least a decade, two new EU directives are intended to legitimise and facilitate its expansion. However, little is known about the full range of prosumers against which to measure policy e ectiveness. We carried out a documentary study and an online survey in nine EU countries to shed light on the demographics, use of technology, organisation, financing, and motivation as well as perceived hindering and facilitating factors for collective prosumers. We identified several internal and external obstacles to the successful mainstreaming of RES prosumerism, among them a mismatch of policies with the needs of di erent RES prosumer types, potential organisational weaknesses as well as slow progress in essential reforms such as decentralising energy infrastructures. Our baseline results o er recommendations for the transposition of EU directives into national legislations and suggest avenues for future research in the fields of social, governance, policy, technology, and business models. |
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Collective Renewable Energy Prosumers and the Promises of the Energy Union: Taking StockRenewable energy prosumerEnergy transitionCollective prosumerEnergy unionCommunity energyA key strategy in the European Union’s ambition to establish an ‘Energy Union’ that is not just clean, but also fair, consists of empowering citizens to actively interact with the energy market as self-consumers or prosumers. Although renewable energy sources (RES) prosumerism has been growing for at least a decade, two new EU directives are intended to legitimise and facilitate its expansion. However, little is known about the full range of prosumers against which to measure policy e ectiveness. We carried out a documentary study and an online survey in nine EU countries to shed light on the demographics, use of technology, organisation, financing, and motivation as well as perceived hindering and facilitating factors for collective prosumers. We identified several internal and external obstacles to the successful mainstreaming of RES prosumerism, among them a mismatch of policies with the needs of di erent RES prosumer types, potential organisational weaknesses as well as slow progress in essential reforms such as decentralising energy infrastructures. Our baseline results o er recommendations for the transposition of EU directives into national legislations and suggest avenues for future research in the fields of social, governance, policy, technology, and business models.MDPIRepositório da Universidade de LisboaHorstink, LankaWittmayer, Julia M.Ng, KiatLuz, Guilherme PontesMarín-González, EstherGährs, SwantjeCampos, InêsHolstenkamp, LarsOxenaar, SemBrown, Donal2020-01-23T16:24:36Z20202020-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/41357engHorstink, L., Wittmayer, J.M., Ng, K., Luz, G.P., Marín-González, E., Gährs, S., Campos, I., Holstenkamp, L., Oxenaar, S., Brown, D. (2020). Collective Renewable Energy Prosumers and the Promises of the Energy Union: Taking Stock. Energies 13, 4211996-107310.3390/en13020421info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T16:40:45Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/41357Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:54:38.621348Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Collective Renewable Energy Prosumers and the Promises of the Energy Union: Taking Stock |
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Collective Renewable Energy Prosumers and the Promises of the Energy Union: Taking Stock |
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Collective Renewable Energy Prosumers and the Promises of the Energy Union: Taking Stock Horstink, Lanka Renewable energy prosumer Energy transition Collective prosumer Energy union Community energy |
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Collective Renewable Energy Prosumers and the Promises of the Energy Union: Taking Stock |
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Collective Renewable Energy Prosumers and the Promises of the Energy Union: Taking Stock |
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Collective Renewable Energy Prosumers and the Promises of the Energy Union: Taking Stock |
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Collective Renewable Energy Prosumers and the Promises of the Energy Union: Taking Stock |
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Collective Renewable Energy Prosumers and the Promises of the Energy Union: Taking Stock |
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Horstink, Lanka |
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Horstink, Lanka Wittmayer, Julia M. Ng, Kiat Luz, Guilherme Pontes Marín-González, Esther Gährs, Swantje Campos, Inês Holstenkamp, Lars Oxenaar, Sem Brown, Donal |
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Wittmayer, Julia M. Ng, Kiat Luz, Guilherme Pontes Marín-González, Esther Gährs, Swantje Campos, Inês Holstenkamp, Lars Oxenaar, Sem Brown, Donal |
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Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
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Horstink, Lanka Wittmayer, Julia M. Ng, Kiat Luz, Guilherme Pontes Marín-González, Esther Gährs, Swantje Campos, Inês Holstenkamp, Lars Oxenaar, Sem Brown, Donal |
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Renewable energy prosumer Energy transition Collective prosumer Energy union Community energy |
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Renewable energy prosumer Energy transition Collective prosumer Energy union Community energy |
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A key strategy in the European Union’s ambition to establish an ‘Energy Union’ that is not just clean, but also fair, consists of empowering citizens to actively interact with the energy market as self-consumers or prosumers. Although renewable energy sources (RES) prosumerism has been growing for at least a decade, two new EU directives are intended to legitimise and facilitate its expansion. However, little is known about the full range of prosumers against which to measure policy e ectiveness. We carried out a documentary study and an online survey in nine EU countries to shed light on the demographics, use of technology, organisation, financing, and motivation as well as perceived hindering and facilitating factors for collective prosumers. We identified several internal and external obstacles to the successful mainstreaming of RES prosumerism, among them a mismatch of policies with the needs of di erent RES prosumer types, potential organisational weaknesses as well as slow progress in essential reforms such as decentralising energy infrastructures. Our baseline results o er recommendations for the transposition of EU directives into national legislations and suggest avenues for future research in the fields of social, governance, policy, technology, and business models. |
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Horstink, L., Wittmayer, J.M., Ng, K., Luz, G.P., Marín-González, E., Gährs, S., Campos, I., Holstenkamp, L., Oxenaar, S., Brown, D. (2020). Collective Renewable Energy Prosumers and the Promises of the Energy Union: Taking Stock. Energies 13, 421 1996-1073 10.3390/en13020421 |
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