Local Energy Communities

<p>This book draws on social science analysis to understand the ongoing dynamics within and surrounding local energy communities in reliably electrified countries: Belgium, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, India, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.</p><p>It offers a comprehensive overview of recent results and thus outlines a diversity of drivers and levers for scaling up energy communities or, at least, local energy sharing. Analysing the main types of energy communities such as collective self-consumption, citizen cooperatives and peer-to-peer digital platforms, the book does not only raise new questions for social scientists, but also offers a comprehensive overview for all those contributing to the circular economy and the decentralization of energy production in inhabited areas where energy consumption is concentrated. This book provides input for the ongoing debates in many European countries implementing the national law on the European directives for energy communities. Furthermore, without evading the antagonism between cooperative and market approaches, or the contradictions between different issues, the book outlines the innovative decision-making tools that can facilitate the development of local energy production and sharing systems.</p><p>As well as being of interest to postgraduates and researchers in the field of energy studies, this book will be vital to energy professionals looking to support local energy communities’ decision-making and design, who wish to consider sociological, organizational and territorial dimensions.</p> <p>Table of contents</p><p>Co-editors</p><p>List of chapter contributors</p><p>Preface</p><p>Origin of the book</p><p>Framework of the book</p><p>Acknowledgments</p><p>Introduction</p><p>Social sciences introduction. Local energy communities: state of the art and chapters cross-sectional analysis</p><p>Gilles Debizet and Marta Pappalardo </p><p>Engineering sciences introduction. Local Energy Communities: transversal reading</p><p>Frédéric Wurtz</p><p>Section A) Motivations and internal/local dynamics of energy sharing communities </p><p>A.1) Inhabitants’ activities and needs relative to renewable energy pooling and sharing: a prospective scenario approach</p><p>Antoine Martin, Marie-France Agnoletti and Eric Brangier</p><p>A.2) Shared geothermal energy projects in Montreal: the importance of pre-existing collective action spaces</p><p>Myriam Proulx and Sophie Van Neste</p><p>A.3) Energy communities and commons: rethinking collective action through inhabited spaces</p><p>Marta Pappalardo</p><p>A.4) Anticipating energy communities in urban projects: challenges and limits</p><p>Inès Ramirez-Cobo, Gilles Debizet and Silvère Tribout</p><p>Section B) Collective self-consumption: regulatory framework set-up and controversies </p><p>B.1) Regulatory framework of collective self-consumption operations: comparative study France, Spain, Germany</p><p>Blanche <i>Lormeteau</i></p><p>B.2) The controversial emergence of collective self-consumption in France</p><p>Thibaut Fonteneau</p><p>Section C) Citizen cooperatives: inter-scalar idealizing, learning and structuring for scaling up </p><p>C.1) Trajectories of renewable energy communities: between democratic processes and economic constraints</p><p>Armelle Gomez, Benjamin Tyl, and Aude Pottier</p><p>C.2) Emergence and transformation of Enercoop: The French network of electricity supply cooperatives as a new social economy initiative</p><p><em>Rémi Maître</em></p><p>C.3) Cooperation within and the institutionalization of participatory renewable energy projects in France: a focus on co-developed citizen, public and private partnership projects</p><p><em>Amélie Artis, Justine Ballon, Dorian Litvine, </em><em>É</em><em>milie Dias and Sylvie Blangy</em></p><p>Section D) Digital services for peer-to-peer communities: regulatory framework and market </p><p>D.1) Emerging digital business models for energy communities: Enablers for citizen participation in the energy transition? – Perspectives from Germany</p><p>Christine Dede and Monika Heyder</p><p>D.2) Digital technologies for consumer-centred energy markets: opportunities and risks of an energy internet.</p><p><em>Hugo Sch</em>ö<em>nbeck, Anna Gorbacheva and Alexandra Schneiders</em></p><p>D.3) Digital Energy Trading Platforms: An Economic Analysis</p><p>Thomas Cortade and Jean-Christophe Poudou</p><p>Section E) Design energy projects for multi-stakeholders’ communities: decision-support tools </p><p>E.1) Proposal to take into account stakeholders’ motivations in models of optimization decision support tools</p><p>Lou Morriet, Frédéric Wurtz and Gilles Debizet</p><p>E.2) Decision support for technical design of on-the-spot renewable energy projects involving several stakeholders</p><p><em>Jaume Fitó,</em> <em>Sacha Hodencq, Lou Morriet, Julien Ramousse, Frédéric Wurtz and Gilles Debizet</em>Index </p>