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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 24-nov-2024