New pathways for community energy and storage
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Worldwide, the energy landscape is changing. Energy transition has now been on the agenda of most of the governments, companies, non-governmental organizations, investors and other stakeholders around the world. It is not only focused on decarbonisation, but also on technology improvements and integration, policies, business models and citizens’ engagement. Local communities are increasingly taking active roles and emerging as new actors in the energy system. In some European countries, in particular Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, local energy communities are already considered important stakeholders in the energy system. For example, many local energy initiatives own or manage solar panels, wind turbines, micro-grids or large scale integrated systems collectively. The central role of citizens is also reflected in recent EU policy. The clean energy for all package of the European Union, through the 2018 recast of the European Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) and the 2019 recast of the Electricity Market Directive (EMD II), define and promote renewable energy communities and citizen energy communities, respectively.
TNO Identifier
956560
Source
Energies, 14(286)
Publisher
MDPI
Collation
8 p.
Place of publication
Basel, Switzerland