A Social Engagement Fast Track on Energy Communities—Key Lesson Learned from H2020 EU Projects

Environmental Sciences Proceedings Pub Date : 2021-11-29 DOI:10.3390/environsciproc2021011017

Simona D'Oca, S. Breukers, S. Slingerland, M. Boekelo, M. V. van Welie, Christian Moscardi, A. Aggeli, Katrin Burgstaller, T. Coosemans, Rebecca Hueting

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Energy communities organise collective and citizen-driven energy actions that will help pave the way for a clean energy transition, while moving citizens to the forefront. The energy market is rapidly transforming and so is the role of the consumer. Yesterday’s passive consumers become central actors in today’s energy markets. Today, as prosumers, citizens can benefit from their generation, consumption, and storage capabilities. Moreover, by supporting social engagement and citizen participation, energy communities can help provide flexibility to the electricity system through demand response, storage, and peer-to-peer energy exchange. Based on the collective debate from nine H2020 running projects (Renaissance, COMETS, Sender, eCREW, Lightness, ReDream, HESTIA, UP-STAIRS and NRG2peers), several challenges and key lessons learned can be identified for just social engagement. These challenges and lessons are relevant for the present and future development of EU energy communities.

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能源社区的社会参与快速通道——从欧盟H2020项目中吸取的重要经验教训

能源社区组织集体和公民驱动的能源行动，将有助于为清洁能源转型铺平道路，同时将公民推向最前沿。能源市场正在迅速转变，消费者的角色也在迅速转变。昨天的被动消费者成为今天能源市场的主角。今天，作为产消者，公民可以从他们的生产、消费和存储能力中受益。此外，通过支持社会参与和公民参与，能源社区可以通过需求响应、存储和点对点能源交换帮助电力系统提供灵活性。根据9个H2020运行项目(Renaissance、COMETS、Sender、eCREW、Lightness、ReDream、HESTIA、UP-STAIRS和NRG2peers)的集体辩论，可以确定社会参与方面的一些挑战和关键经验教训。这些挑战和教训与欧盟能源共同体当前和未来的发展息息相关。

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