Feeding bees according to desired honey type: tailoring support for European Energy Communities to their function to escape the energy trilemma
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”.
Implementing a just renewable energy transition: Policy advice for transposing the new European rules for renewable energy communities
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.
Renewable energy communities under the 2019 European Clean Energy Package – Governance model for the energy clusters of the future?
Written by Jens Lowitzsch, Christina E. Hoicka, Felicia van Tulder. The article was published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 122 (2020).
Consumer Stock Ownership Plans (CSOPs)—The Prototype Business Model for Renewable Energy Communities
Written by Jens Lowitzsch. The article was published in Energies 2020, 13.
Energy Transition: Financing Consumer Co-Ownership in Renewables—18 Country Studies and a Comparative Analysis
Written by Jens Lowitzsch (Editor). Published in Palgrave Macmillan.