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Pluralising the European energy landscape: Collective renewable energy prosumers and the EU's clean energy vision

Publication

To fulfil the European Union’s (EU) goal of providing ‘Clean Energy for All Europeans’, a transformative shift from centralised, fossil-fuel based systems to decentralised systems based on renewable energy sources (RES) is envisaged. Keen to lead the clean energy transition while embedding technological innovation and elements of justice and equitability into the envisioned ‘Energy Union’, EU Member States need their citizens on board as active participants. Prosumerism or...

Publication date: 2021

Author: Lanka Horstink, Julia Wittmayer and Kiat Ng

Language: English


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Charging the future: Roadmaps and value tensions for mainstreaming prosumerism to 2030 and 2050

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Infographic
Report

This report presents the outcomes of a participatory process in which these multiple development paths and futures of prosumer business models, social dynamics, and technical systems were explored with a wide range of stakeholders. First, we outline the objective of the report and the process of the Participatory Integrated Assessment (PIA) (Section 1). Second, we discuss six leverage points, or ‘buttons to switch’ for affecting the future, which were distilled from the rich outcomes of...

Publication date: February 2021

Author: Tessa de Geus, Julia Wittmayer, Fabi van Berkel (DRIFT)

Language: English


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Surplus Power Tariffs - Position Paper

Policy Brief
Report

This paper explains why standardised tariffs for renewable energy generation should continue to play a central role in energy policy. The overall goal is to massively accelerate the uptake of renewables to comply with the Paris Agreement. The demand for new renewable capacity is still not sufficiently incited by the energy markets due to incumbent fossil and nuclear generation and slow electrification of the heat and transport sector. Therefore, policy intervention is still necessary. A New...

Publication date: February 2021

Author: Kristian Petrick, eco-union

Language: English


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Integrated lessons learned for renewable energy prosumer futures across Europe

Deliverable

This deliverable reports on the work carried out in PROSEU WP7 “Living Labs: Lessons learned and recommendations for mainstreaming the participation of citizens in the Energy Union, specifically, in task 7.3 “Meta-analysis, lessons learned and recommendations for Living Labs”. The purpose of this document is to make available the results of the evaluation of the 15 PROSEU RES Living Labs developed over two years in nine EU countries (Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal,...

Publication date: February 2021

Author: Esther Marín González, Inês Campos

Language: English


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Infographics

Infographic

PROSEU produced a series infographics highlighting the work done in the project and sharing new perspectives from the world of Prosumerism. 

Publication date: February 2021

Author: PROSEU

Language: English


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Prosumer Inspiration Day

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Video
Webinar recording

The Prosumer Inspiration Day raised awareness on the potential of prosumerism and energy communities on a larger scale, provided fact-based arguments in favour of a citizen-driven energy transition and presented the most up-to-date information on energy communities. It highlighted the possibilities of prosumerism and the main outcomes of the PROSEU project to enhance the impact of citizens engaged in the energy transition.

Publication date: February 2021

Author: All PROSEU partners

Language: English


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Prosumer policy exchange day

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Webinar recording

This morning of policy exchange was fully devoted to discussing the future of energy neutrality with committed policy actors:

Publication date: February 2021

Language: English


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Prosumer Dialogue Day

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Webinar recording

The Prosumer Dialogue day gave participants the chance to discuss in detail some of the more salient Technical, Economic and Social aspects of prosumerism. Starting from the PROSEU outcomes, three parallel sessions, one per topic, allowed an open dialogue with participants contributing with their experience.

Publication date: Wed 3 Feb 2021

Language: English


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10 Provocations for Mainstreaming Prosumerism towards 2050

Infographic

There is no perfect way to mainstream prosumerism towards 2050. Different actors will have different preferences and the future is uncertain.  FInd here 10 provocations from the PROSEU project that may help start the discussion. These are meant as provocations for you to use in interviews, workshops etc. You can find the recommendations from the PROSEU project here.  You can also find the Deliverable "Charging the future: Roadmaps and value tensions for mainstreaming prosumerism to 2030...

Publication date: February 2021

Author: DRIFT

Language: English


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Mainstreaming prosumerism — Energy with the people

Policy Brief

The stage is set for prosumerism. It has the potential to drastically contribute to climate neutrality targets and to make the energy transition socially-inclusive and beneficial for all. To ensure that citizens are enabled to take this up, the PROSEU consortium proposes a set of policy recommendations for mainstreaming prosumerism in Europe. They provide concrete propositions for national policy makers when drafting national legislation. They are further elaborated within the in-depth...

Publication date: Mon 1 Feb 2021

Author: All PROSEU partners, editor: Arthur Hinsch

Language: English, German, Spanish


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