Community Energy in Germany: From Technology Pioneers to Professionalisation under Uncertainty
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Germany probably has one of the largest community energy sectors in Europe and worldwide. The national government has not (yet) used the Clean Energy Package as a window of opportunity, as in other countries with less strong community energy heritage, to foster or revitalise Germany’s stagnating community energy sector—despite or because of being a community energy front-runner. The author emphasises institutional fit, path dependence, and existing actors and motivations to explain such a “law of the disadvantageous lead”. On the other hand, he highlights questions of timing, sub-national and multilevel policy dynamics and the dominating narrative as explanations for this finding. Overall, changes in energy policy leave German community energy companies in a struggle to find new business models and to professionalise.
| Translated title of the contribution | Bürgerenergie in Deutschland: Von Technologiepionieren zur Professionalisierung unter Unsicherheit |
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| Original language | English |
| Title of host publication | Renewable Energy Communities and the Low Carbon Energy Transition in Europe |
| Editors | Frans H.J.M. Coenen, Thomas Hoppe |
| Number of pages | 34 |
| Place of Publication | Cham |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publication date | 2021 |
| Pages | 119-152 |
| ISBN (print) | 978-3-030-84439-4 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 978-3-030-84440-0 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2021 |
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- Energy research
Research areas
- SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy