Community energy
Entanglements of community, state, and private sector
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7784869 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily Creamer (0000-0001-6096-3114, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author), Will Eadson (0000-0002-2158-7205, Sheffield Hallam University), Bregje Van Veelen (0000-0003-1467-8325, Durham University), Annabel Pinker (0000-0002-6516-5573, James Hutton Institute), Margaret Tingey (0000-0001-7668-4208, University of Edinburgh), Tim Braunholtz‐speight (0000-0002-6115-0331, University of Manchester), Marianna Markantoni (0000-0003-1531-4232, Scotland's Rural College), Mike Foden (0000-0002-0218-6078, Keele University), Max Lacey‐barnacle (0000-0002-5267-9735, Welsh Government) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geography Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/gec3.12378 |
| OpenAlex | W2803120741 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 88 |
| References cited | 98 |
The decarbonisation of energy systems is leading to a reconfiguration of the geographies of energy. One example is the emergence of community energy, which has become a popular object of study for geographers. Although widely acknowledged to be a contested, capacious, and flexible term, “community energy” is commonly presented as singular, bounded, and localised. In this paper, we challenge this conception of community energy by considering evidence about the role and influence of three categories of actors: community, state, and private sector. We demonstrate how community energy projects are unavoidably entangled with a diversity of actors and institutions operating at and across multiple scales. We therefore argue that community energy is enabled and constituted by trans‐scalar assemblages of overlapping actors, which demands multi‐sectoral participation and coordination. We point to the need for further academic attention on the boundaries between these actors to better understand the role of different intermediary practices and relationships in facilitating the development of decentralised energy systems with just outcomes
Control reconfiguration · Economic system · Economics · Energy Sector · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Computer Science · Energy and Environment Impacts · Engineering · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
When Goliath embraces David
Powershifts
Conceptualizing alternatives to contemporary renewable energy development
Beyond top-down and bottom-up
The importance of social relations in shaping energy demand
Energy justice in the developing world
Community acceptability and the energy transition
Social Innovation in Community Energy in Europe
Scaling up community wind energy
The Grassroots Energy Transition in Poland through a Sociological Lens
Energy community practice in Greece
Ensuring a fair energy transition
« Communautés énergétiques » et fabrique urbaine. Analyses croisées Allemagne, France, Royaume-Uni
Energy sharing within Dutch energy communities
Understanding how intertwined barriers and drivers shape energy community value propositions
Diverse scaling strategies of energy communities
Community as tool for low carbon transitions
Energy democracy
A powerless alternative? Citizen participation, private actors, and corporate dominance in the contested rollout of renewable energy communities in Portugal
Why support seasonal thermal energy storage? Swiss residents' preferences for ownership, decision-making and energy costs
Understanding the up-scaling mechanisms of urban energy transitions
Redefining business models for the energy transition
Value dynamics in energy democracy
Understanding the community in community microgrids
Off-grid energy sustainability in Nunatukavut, Labrador
Canada's Green New Deal
Proximities of energy justice
Energy communities, distributed generation, renewable sources
Towards a deeper understanding of up-scaling in socio-technical transitions
Collective action without community? Perspectives from project developers and participants in citizen-financed photovoltaic projects
Where are the citizens? Unravelling the lopsided nature of stakeholder participation in the Dutch regional energy transition
What is prosumerism for? Exploring the normative dimensions of decentralised energy transitions
Thinking, doing, organising
Can industries be parties in collective action? Community energy in an Iranian industrial zone
Civic energy and the traditions of the idea of civil society
COPs and ‘robbers?’ Better understanding community energy and toward a Communities of Place then Interest approach
Better together
Gridlocked
The process matters
Grassroots retrofit
Beyond our backyard
Locked in transition? Towards a conceptualization of path-dependence lock-ins in the renewable energy landscape
Reconciliation through renewable energy? A survey of Indigenous communities, involvement, and peoples in Canada
Something old, something new, something green
What is ‘local’ about Smart Local Energy Systems? Emerging stakeholder geographies of decentralised energy in the United Kingdom
Critical pathways to renewable energy transitions in remote Alaska communities
Forging green frontiers
Contested geographies of localization(s)
Comment des mouvements sociaux économiques parviennent-ils à agir sur et dans le marché malgré l’adversité ? Le cas des projets coopératifs d’énergie renouvelable en France et au Royaume-Uni
Comment les instruments d’action publique orientent-ils la participation de nouveaux entrants au sein d’un marché ? Le cas des projets coopératifs d’énergie renouvelable en France et au Royaume-Uni
Vicarious scale and instrumental imaginaries in community sustainable transitions
Scaling mechanisms of energy communities
How are public utilities responding to electricity market restructuring and the energy transition? Lessons from Israel
Community Energy in Germany – Bowling Alone in Elite Clubs
Thinking through connections in food and energy transitions
Delivering an off-grid transition to sustainable energy in Ethiopia and Mozambique
A Systematic Review of Agent‐Based Modelling of Residential Low‐Carbon Energy Technology Uptake and Its Integration of Place‐Based Approach
Energy democratisation through agrivoltaics? The territorialisation dynamics of community-based energy governance in Japan
Four pathways for energy citizenship initiatives to contribute to a more democratic European energy system
Communities and the European Green Deal
Twisting like a cabbage worm
Between straitjacket and possibility
Local collective action for sustainability transformations
Local agency vs. political economy in low-income energy transitions in California
Towards a Pragmatic and Pluralist Framework for Energy Justice
Developing Energy Citizenship—Empowerment Through Engagement and (Co-)Ownership, Individually and in Energy Communities
Uneven democracies of energy
Identities, innovation, and governance
Energy democracy as a process, an outcome and a goal
Energy justice within, between and beyond European community energy initiatives
Energising the Polis? Analysing transition challenges to energy communities in Greece
The architecture of inter-community partnerships in renewable energy
A Postcolonial Critique of Community Energy
Differentiated grassroots
Watt sense of community? A human geography agenda on energy communities
Community-based energy governance and the political
Labor resistance and municipal power
Assemblage-democracy
The evolving borderland of energy geographies
Putting community to use in environmental policy making
How to account for the dark sides of social innovation? Transitions directionality in renewable energy prosumerism
What interests do intermediaries prioritize during wind- and solar project development
Explaining inclusivity in energy transitions
Exploring the dynamics of energy democracy and institutional configurations
Foregrounding the community
Energy democracy as the right to the city
Properties of air
The Trouble with Community
Financing renewable energy infrastructures via financial citizen participation – The case of Germany
Big society, little justice? Community renewable energy and the politics of localism
Whose energy transition is it, anyway? Organisation and ownership of the Energiewende in villages, cities and regions
Political Modernisation and Policy Arrangements
Building capacity for low-carbon communities
Energy justice at the end of the wire
An exploration of the boundaries of ‘community’ in community renewable energy projects
Mobilizing community energy
The role of intermediaries in low carbon transitions – Empowering innovations to unlock district heating in the UK
From private lives to collective action
Community energy and social entrepreneurship
Communities matter
Growing Grassroots Innovations
The institutional space of community initiatives for renewable energy
Local Governments Supporting Local Energy Initiatives
Taking stock of the local impacts of community owned renewable energy
Struggle over energy transition in Berlin
Government-affiliated intermediary organisations as actors in system-level transitions
Community Energy
Acceptance, acceptability and environmental justice
Between coproduction and commons
Situating Social Practices in Community Energy Projects
Energy and development in the periphery
The Muillean Gaoithe and the Melin Wynt
What drives the development of community energy in Europe? The case of wind power cooperatives
Citizens’ willingness to participate in local renewable energy projects
Partnership or placation? The role of trust and justice in the shared ownership of renewable energy projects
Of expertise, social capital, and democracy
The transformative power of self-organization
Between grassroots and treetops
Collective ownership in renewable energy and opportunities for sustainable degrowth
Harnessing Community Energies
We are not in this to save the polar bears!” – the link between community renewable energy development and ecological citizenship
Community-owned renewable energy (CRE)
Promoting Community Renewable Energy in a Corporate Energy World
A survey of urban climate change experiments in 100 cities
Grassroots innovations in community energy
Social movements and urban energy policy
From ‘energy geography’ to ‘energy geographies’
Does community ownership affect public attitudes to wind energy? A case study from south-west Scotland
Procedural justice and the implementation of community wind energy projects
Governing cities for sustainable energy
Towards an Energy Politics In‐Against‐and‐Beyond the State
The Intermediary Organisation of Low Carbon Cities
Uncommon Ground
The financial entanglements of local energy projects
Towards a critical geography of disaster recovery politics
Energy democracy
Negotiating energy democracy in practice
Understanding Transition—Periphery Dynamics
Tinkering with Turbines
User-led innovation in civic energy communities
A grassroots sustainable energy niche? Reflections on community energy in the UK
The double-edged sword of grant funding
Prosaic state governance of community low carbon transitions
Community Transitions to Low Carbon Futures in the Transition Towns Network (TTN)
Assessing diversity and inclusivity within the Transition movement
Making the most of community energies
| Unique citing works | 88 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 11 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 84 |