Abstract

With the Clean Energy Package, the EU has created a legal framework that strengthens the activities and rights of consumers and communities in the energy sector at the local level so that they can engage in inno- vative business fields such as aggregation, regional electricity (guarantees of origin), peer-to-peer energy trading, energy sharing and flexibility trading in the energy market. However, the development of energy communities in general is not new; in many cases, these communities already exist in the form of producer associations, virtual power plants and neighbourhood concepts. The definition of energy communities cho- sen in this analysis goes beyond the EU specifications, and includes all groups of individual actors who voluntarily accept certain rules in order to act together in the energy sector to pursue a common goal.

Authors
Babilon, Linda ; Battaglia, Manuel ; Robers, Moritz ; Degel, Melanie; Ludwig, Katrin
Fields of research

Energy, climate and infrastructure