In this study, the European-level regulations governing energy communities are reviewed.
This is important as recognizing definitions, rights, and obligations in the regulatory world …

Intermediary actors have been proposed as key catalysts that speed up change towards
more sustainable socio-technical systems. Research on this topic has gradually gained …

A growing literature suggests that community owned renewable energy (CRE) projects have
the potential to deliver a range of environmental and local socio-economic benefits. There is …

In response to the ongoing climate crisis, many countries have issued policies to support the
uptake of renewable energy. In the same vein, the European Union (EU) has issued a …

Cities are key in climate mitigation and adaptation, and they have developed into sites of
innovative urban climate governance that can spur on climate action. Building on this …

In this paper, we analyse community energy (CE) projects in urban settings. Building on
insights from the literature on the geography of sustainability transitions, we examine how …

Approaches to providing sustainable energy in cities have generated considerable interest
in academic and policy circles. The development of this body of work, however, has not shed …

Scale is an emergent theme in current scientific and policy debates on low‐carbon urban
transformations. Yet notions of scale employed in such contexts are typically based on linear …

Recent scholarly attention shows increasing involvement of local low-carbon energy
initiatives (LLCEIs) in governance and policy, in particular in relation to innovations …

Community energy (CE) represents a potentially critical means of accelerating a sustainable
and equitable energy transition. However, in many countries, it is experiencing a period of …