Community Energy in Germany: From Technology Pioneers to Professionalisation under Uncertainty
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Renewable Energy Communities and the Low Carbon Energy Transition in Europe. ed. / Frans H.J.M. Coenen; Thomas Hoppe. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. p. 119-152.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Community Energy in Germany
T2 - From Technology Pioneers to Professionalisation under Uncertainty
AU - Holstenkamp, Lars
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Energy research
KW - Bürgerenergie
KW - Geschichte
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-84440-0_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-84440-0_6
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-3-030-84439-4
SP - 119
EP - 152
BT - Renewable Energy Communities and the Low Carbon Energy Transition in Europe
A2 - Coenen, Frans H.J.M.
A2 - Hoppe, Thomas
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Cham
ER -