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Stakeholder Report on Financial Innovation for Prosumer Expansion
This report gives examples of financial innovations already available to prosumer business models and establishes how they can be integrated into the diverse financial markets in the European Union. The main goal of this report is to inspire stakeholders – such as financial institutions and community energy intermediaries – either to adopt these models or to adapt them to their respective national and local contexts. For this purpose, we give an overview of 10 cases - local initiatives,...
Publication date: September 2020
Lars Holstenkamp, Timon Becker, Alina Beigang, Moritz Ehrtmann (Leuphana University of Lüneburg) Mark Davis, Donal Brown, Stephen Hall (University of Leeds)
Language: English
Beyond instrumentalism: Broadening the understanding of social innovation in socio-technical energy systems
Social innovation is an important dimension of current transformations in energy systems. It can refer to alternative business models, novel policy instruments, financing schemes, participatory governance approaches to energy questions, or new discourses. Its significance for energy systems is often considered in narrow instrumentalist terms, reducing it to a tool serving particular policy objectives. Grounding the concept in social science and humanities insights, this review essay proposes a...
Publication date: July 2020
Wittmayer, J.M., de Geus, T., Pel, B. et al
Language: English
Policies for Prosumer Business Models in the EU
In this policy brief, we build on the previous discussions through an analysis of the regulatory and broader institutional challenges facing these emerging business models for the nine member states in scope1. We therefore seek to address the following questions: In which member states can these business models exist and why? What are the key policy constraints and enablers for their replication in other contexts? How can policymakers enable their diffusion to disrupt or consolidate...
Publication date: April 2020
Donal Brown,Stephen Hall, MarkE. Davis Moritz Ehrtmann, Lars Holstenkamp
Language: English
Materials from e-workshop on Prosumer Business Models PIA#1
Blog on PIA #1 Agenda & participant briefing Background document Presentation on Challenges of Prosumer business models - balancing the needs of communities and the energy system, Donal Brown, University of Leeds Highlight #1: Prosumer business models in 2050, Jeffrey Hardy, Imperial College London Highlight #2: Polling on fees and surcharges, Moritz Ehrtmann & Timon Becker, Leuphana University of Lüneburg Highlight #3: Digitalisation, Lars Holstenkamp, Leuphana University of...
Publication date: Wed 25 Mar 2020
PROSEU
Language: English
What is prosumerism for? Exploring the normative dimensions of decentralised energy transitions
Energy systems are in transformation towards increasingly renewable, decentralised, demand responsive and smart configurations. This has led to advocacy of the ‘prosumer’ phenomenon: characterised by actors who both consume and produce renewable energy. In parallel a range of prosumer business models are emerging, governed by a range of market, municipal and community actors. Through a series of semi-structured interviews, focus groups and documentary analysis - centred on a case study of...
Publication date: March 2020
Donal Brown, Stephen Hall, Mark E .Davis
Language: English
Report on local, national and EU scenarios
In order to fulfil the Objective 4 of the PROSEU project, this deliverable analyses various technical scenarios of renewable prosumer integration to determine the full potential for the uptake of such technologies. Three general scenarios were developed with three different reference years: Reference scenario: 2015, 2030, 2050 Renewables scenario: 2030, 2050 Autarky scenario: 2030, 2050 The Reference scenario ensures comparability with business as usual. The renewables scenario shows...
Publication date: February 2020
Borna Doračić (UNIZAG FSB), Jan Knoefel (IÖW), Nanda Naber (CE DELFT)
Language: English
Collective Renewable Energy Prosumers and the Promises of the Energy Union: Taking Stock
A key strategy in the European Union’s ambition to establish an ‘Energy Union’ that is not just clean, but also fair, consists of empowering citizens to actively interact with the energy market as self-consumers or prosumers. Although renewable energy sources (RES) prosumerism has been growing for at least a decade, two new EU directives are intended to legitimise and facilitate its expansion. However, little is known about the full range of prosumers against which to measure policy...
Publication date: January 2020
University of Porto, University of Lisbon, DRIFT, Institute for Ecological Economy Research, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, University of Leeds
Language: English
