Local Energy Communities

Table of contents

Co-editors

List of chapter contributors

Preface

Origin of the book

Framework of the book

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Social sciences introduction. Local energy communities: state of the art and chapters cross-sectional analysis

Gilles Debizet and Marta Pappalardo

Engineering sciences introduction. Local Energy Communities: transversal reading

Frederic Wurtz

Section A) Motivations and internal/local dynamics of energy sharing communities

A.1) Inhabitants' activities and needs relative to renewable energy pooling and sharing: a prospective scenario approach

Antoine Martin, Marie-France Agnoletti and Eric Brangier

A.2) Shared geothermal energy projects in Montreal: the importance of pre-existing collective action spaces

Myriam Proulx and Sophie Van Neste

A.3) Energy communities and commons: rethinking collective action through inhabited spaces

Marta Pappalardo

A.4) Anticipating energy communities in urban projects: challenges and limits

Ines Ramirez-Cobo, Gilles Debizet and Silvere Tribout

Section B) Collective self-consumption: regulatory framework set-up and controversies

B.1) Regulatory framework of collective self-consumption operations: comparative study France, Spain, Germany

Blanche Lormeteau

B.2) The controversial emergence of collective self-consumption in France

Thibaut Fonteneau

Section C) Citizen cooperatives: inter-scalar idealizing, learning and structuring for scaling up

C.1) Trajectories of renewable energy communities: between democratic processes and economic constraints

Armelle Gomez, Benjamin Tyl, and Aude Pottier

C.2) Emergence and transformation of Enercoop: The French network of electricity supply cooperatives as a new social economy initiative

Remi Maitre

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

Amelie Artis, Justine Ballon, Dorian Litvine, Emilie Dias and Sylvie Blangy

Section D) Digital services for peer-to-peer communities: regulatory framework and market

D.1) Emerging digital business models for energy communities: Enablers for citizen participation in the energy transition? - Perspectives from Germany

Christine Dede and Monika Heyder

D.2) Digital technologies for consumer-centred energy markets: opportunities and risks of an energy internet.

Hugo Schoenbeck, Anna Gorbacheva and Alexandra Schneiders

D.3) Digital Energy Trading Platforms: An Economic Analysis

Thomas Cortade and Jean-Christophe Poudou

Section E) Design energy projects for multi-stakeholders' communities: decision-support tools

E.1) Proposal to take into account stakeholders' motivations in models of optimization decision support tools

Lou Morriet, Frederic Wurtz and Gilles Debizet

E.2) Decision support for technical design of on-the-spot renewable energy projects involving several stakeholders

Jaume Fito, Sacha Hodencq, Lou Morriet, Julien Ramousse, Frederic Wurtz and Gilles DebizetIndex