Implementing a just renewable energy transition: Policy advice for transposing the new European rules for renewable energy communities

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dc.contributor.authorHoicka, Christina E.
dc.contributor.authorLowitzsch, Jens
dc.contributor.authorBrisbois, Marie Claire
dc.contributor.authorKumar, Ankit
dc.contributor.authorRamirez Camargo, Luis
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-27T15:15:58Z
dc.date.available2024-05-27T15:15:58Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThe recast of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) provides an enabling framework for “Renewable Energy Communities” (RECs) that is being transposed into law by the 27 European Union Member States by June 2021. RECs are majority owned by local members or shareholders who are authorized to share energy within the community, offering the potential to unlock private investment and financing for renewable energy sources and provide social benefits. However, successful implementation and a just energy transition requires the coupling of technological solutions with more open decision making, based on sound analysis, knowledge of engineering, spatial planning, and social science. We argue that financing and ownership models that address renewable energy complementarity, spatial organization of resource potential, demographics, pushback from incumbents, and inclusion of traditionally marginalized groups, are common issues across all Member States that are crucial for the transposition of RED II and a just energy transition. This paper highlights the benefits and challenges of widespread development of RECs, and using examples from the pending transposition process provides policy advice for effective implementation of the RED II with respect to RECs.
dc.description.reviewstatusReviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelFaculty
dc.description.sponsorshipThe work on this paper has received support by the Kelso Institute for the Study of Economic Systems; the Horizon 2020 project “SCORE” grant agreement No 784960; the Horizon 2020 project “RENAISSANCE” grant agreement No 824342; and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (reFUEL, grant agreement No. 758149). Open access funding provided by University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU).
dc.identifier.citationHoicka, C. E., Lowitzsch, J., Brisbois, M. C., Kumar, A., & Ramirez Camargo, L. (2021). Implementing a just renewable energy transition: Policy advice for transposing the new European rules for renewable energy communities. Energy Policy, 156, 112435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112435
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112435
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/16566
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherEnergy Policy
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectenergy communities
dc.subjectEuropean renewable energy directive
dc.subjectenergy democracy
dc.subjectcommunity energy
dc.subjectenergy justice
dc.subjectrenewable energy clusters
dc.titleImplementing a just renewable energy transition: Policy advice for transposing the new European rules for renewable energy communities
dc.typeArticle

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