RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Is community energy really non-existent in post-socialist Europe? Examining recent trends in 16 countries A1 Capellán Pérez, Iñigo A1 Johanisova, Nadia A1 Young, Jasminka A1 Kunze, Conrad K1 Community energy K1 Energía comunitaria K1 Renewable energy sources K1 Fuentes de energía renovables K1 Post-socialist Europe K1 Europa postsocialista AB Community energy (CE) initiatives are developing in many regions of the world through a great diversity of typologies. Europe has a leading role with thousands of ongoing projects of small and medium size, which are however unevenly distributed over the continent. The density of CE projects is highest in North-Western and parts of Central Europe; on the contrary, their spread in post-socialist European countries (PSECs) has been reported to be much more limited. However, the (under)development of CE in PSECs remains an understudied topic in the literature. In this paper, we present an exploratory overview of the situation and briefly discuss its potential explanatory factors for 16 PSECs. We find differing development levels of progress, with Croatia outstanding with a diversity of projects and a certain maturation of the field, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia with a reduced number of rather small-scale projects, while in the remaining countries no operational relevant projects have been found to date. We present our methods, overviews by country and some tentative explanations. We suggest further research to be directed towards in-depth analysis of single countries and relevant project cases in PSECs. PB Elsevier SN 2214-6296 YR 2020 FD 2020 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/40025 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/40025 LA eng NO Energy Research & Social Science, 2020, vol. 61. 6 p. NO Producción Científica DS UVaDOC RD 29-mar-2024