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Financial participation and compensation schemes in the European wind energy sector: A systematic classification and assessment (2006–2025)

2. October 2026

Energy Communities must comply with the governance rules stipulated in the Renewable Energy Directive II and the Internal Electricity Market Directive if they wish to qualify as Renewable Energy Community or Citizen Energy Community respectively. However, when transposing the directives into national law Members States amongst other have digression to spell out support measures for energy communities in an “enabling framework”.

From access to ownership : energy communities & social inclusion in the EU’s energy transition

30. September 2026

New land mark Policy Brief Commissioned by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung we launched “From Access to Ownership: Energy Communities & Social Inclusion in the EU’s energy transition” (EN/DE/FR) and an animated video on 16 Oct. in Brussels. Abstract This policy brief examines the challenges and opportunities

The PEPPER V Report

24. May 2024

This Report provides an overview of the development of employee financial participation, i.e., employee share ownership and profit sharing, across the EU-27, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America as of January 2024. Against the background of the policy development of the past 35 years, it highlights the growth of financial participation over the last decade using the most recent cross-country data available, i.e., the 2021 CRANET Survey, the 2019 European Company Survey and the 2015 European Working Conditions Survey, which also show its potential positive impact on employment and productivity.

Feeding bees according to desired honey type: tailoring support for European Energy Communities to their function to escape the energy trilemma

16. May 2024

The SCORE Project Final Report

18. December 2022

Description With the passing of the Clean Energy Package at the European level in Winter 2018/19 and the subsequent transposition in particular of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) and in the Internal Electricity Market Directive (IEMD) into national law, consumer co-ownership in RE –

Spanish Sociedades Laborales – Activating the Unemployed

18. December 2022

Description Spanish Sociedades Laborales (SLs) – mostly small and micro enterprises – are a qualified form of conventional corporation, majority-owned by their permanent employees. The new 2015 Law on Worker-Owned and Participatory Companies substantially modernised the concept of SLs 30 years after its inception. This

Energy Transition – Consumer (Co-)Ownership in Renewable Energy

18. December 2022

Description Consumer (co-)ownership in renewable energy (RE) is essential to the overall success of Energy Transition. In June 2018, the European Union agreed on a corresponding enabling framework as part of a recast of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED II). The transposition of these comprehensive

Twelve Year Report – Kelso Institute Europe and the Kelso Professorship of Comparative Law

1. September 2022

The Kelso Institute Europe The Kelso Institute Europe (KIE) was founded in February 2020 by Prof. Lowitzsch and is financed by the Kelso Institute for the Study of Economic Systems in San Francisco and third-party funded projects. The KIE is designated to become home to

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

1. September 2021

Written by Christina E. Hoicka, Jens Lowitzsch, Marie Claire Brisbois, Ankit Kumar, Luis Ramirez Camargo.

The article was published in Energy Policy 156 (2021) 11243.

An Empirical Approach to Differences in Flexible Electricity Consumption Behaviour of Urban and Rural Populations— Lessons Learned in Germany

12. August 2021

Written by Lucas Roth, Özgür Yildiz, Jens Lowitzsch. The article was published in Sustainability, August 2021, 13, 9028.

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Financial participation and compensation schemes in the European wind energy sector: A systematic classification and assessment (2006–2025)

From access to ownership : energy communities & social inclusion in the EU’s energy transition

The PEPPER V Report

Feeding bees according to desired honey type: tailoring support for European Energy Communities to their function to escape the energy trilemma

The SCORE Project Final Report

Spanish Sociedades Laborales – Activating the Unemployed

Energy Transition – Consumer (Co-)Ownership in Renewable Energy

Twelve Year Report – Kelso Institute Europe and the Kelso Professorship of Comparative Law

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

An Empirical Approach to Differences in Flexible Electricity Consumption Behaviour of Urban and Rural Populations— Lessons Learned in Germany

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