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Business Models for Prosumers in Europe

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Report

This report explores the different business models being adopted to enable renewable energy generation and self-consumption in the European Union. It explains why Renewable Energy Communities and Citizen Energy Communities are necessary, what kinds of value they might be trying to capture in the energy transition, and how they can be empowered through EU member states’ energy policy and regulation.

Publication date: December 2019

Author: Stephen Hall, Donal Brown, Mark Davis (University of Leeds), Moritz Ehrtmann, Lars Holstenkamp (Leuphana University of Lüneburg)

Language: English


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Synthesis of incentive structures: input for Participatory Integrated Assessment

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Report

This deliverable develops a comprehensive overview of the incentive structures that shape the mainstreaming of RES prosumerism. The Incentive Structures Framework (ISF) presented here identifies and describes 17 key societal conditions, classified along the three clusters of regulatory-financial conditions, technological-material conditions and cultural-discursive conditions. The relevance is empirically substantiated through brief summaries of observations from PROSEU thematic work packages,...

Publication date: December 2019

Author: PROSEU

Language: English


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Prosumers in the post subsidy era: an exploration of new prosumer business models in the UK

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This paper explores the evolving renewable energy ‘prosumer’ phenomenon in the United Kingdom (UK). It identifies and evaluates how prosumer business models can exist beyond direct subsidy and the range of prosumer business model archetypes currently in operation. Through a series of in-depth interviews and document analysis, the paper identifies the key opportunities and challenges for these innovative energy business models. The analysis shows that recent developments in technology such...

Publication date: 2019

Author: University of Leeds

Language: English


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Renewable Energy Prosumers in Mediterranean Viticulture Social–Ecological Systems

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The significant energy demands of wine production pose both a challenge and an opportunity for adopting a low-carbon, more sustainable and potentially less expensive energy model. Nevertheless, the (dis)incentives for the wider adoption of local production and self-consumption of energy (also known as “prosumerism”) from renewable energy sources (RESs) are still not sufficiently addressed, nor are the broader social–ecological benefits of introducing RES as part of a sustainable...

Publication date: November 2019

Author: Lisbon University, Esporão SA, omissão Vitivinícola Regional Alentejana

Language: English


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Principles for Prosumer Policy Options

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Policy Brief
Report

This report offers a set of principles for prosumer policy options that allow prosumers to become an integral part of the energy system. It aims to inform and influence National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) as well as transposition into national legislation and regulation of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED II), the Electricity Market Directive (EMD) and the Governance Regulation by developing strategies around the involvement and mainstreaming of prosumers and renewable energy...

Publication date: September 2019

Author: Kristian Petrick, Jérémie Fosse, Salvador Klarwein (all ECO-UNION)

Language: English


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Principios de políticas para prosumidores / Principles for Prosumer Policy Options

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Policy Brief

Recomendaciones para fortalecer los prosumidores y las comunidades de energía en los Planes Nacionales Integrados de Energía y Clima (PNIEC) y las políticas locales, nacionales y de la UE relacionadas Los socios del proyecto PROSEU proponen una serie de principios para las distintas opciones de políticas de prosumidores que permitirán a los prosumidores ser parte integral del sistema energético. Pretende informar e influenciar los Planes Nacionales. Integrados de Energía y Clima (PNIEC)...

Publication date: Tue 17 Sep 2019

Author: PROSEU

Language: English, Spanish


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Infographic on Prosumer Community of Interest

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Publication date: 2019

Language: English


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Review and characterisation of collective renewable energy prosumer initiatives

Deliverable
Report

This document establishes a baseline review and characterisation of renewable energy sources (RES) prosumer initiatives across Europe, which other PROSEU work packages can subsequently build on. Based on highly collaborative work carried out under Task 2.1 and 2.2 of WP2, this report shares interdisciplinary insights on the current state of play for collective forms of prosumer initiatives in Europe using a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods.

Publication date: June 2019

Author: Lanka Horstink (UPORTO), Guilherme Luz (FC.ID), Mark Soares (UPORTO) & Kiat Ng (UPORTO)

Language: English


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Strategies for enhancing policy coherence and sustainability

Deliverable
Policy Brief
Report

The overall objective of this policy brief and report on background information is to provide guidance in terms of how to make prosumer projects truly sustainable across all three sustainability dimensions, i.e. considering the environmental, social and economic perspectives. It does so by identifying and discussing the main sustainability issues facing prosumers within the three sustainability dimensions, and by providing concrete guidelines for a) prosumer initiatives (including both...

Publication date: May 2019

Author: Kristian Petrick, Jérémie Fosse, Salvador Klarwein, Mireia Reus (all ECO-UNION)

Language: English


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Economical, environmental and exergetic multi-objective optimization of district heating systems on hourly level for a whole year

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District heating systems are proven to be an effective way of increasing energy efficiency, reducing the environmental impact and achieving higher exergy efficiency than individual heating solutions. The leaders in district heating integration are Scandinavian countries with more than 50% of the covered total heating demand. Nevertheless, these systems haven’t reached their full potential in most European countries. The reason for this could be that energy planners often study only the...

Publication date: May 2019

Author: Hrvoje Dorotić, Tomislav Pukšec, Neven Duić

Language: English


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