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Prosumerism and energy sustainability

Prosumerism and energy sustainability | Energy Transition in Europe | www.energy-cities.eu | Scoop.it

This report develops a sociotechnical understanding of energy prosumerism to investigate how energy prosumerism can lead to actual reductions of energy and resource demand. The report starts out by explaining what a sociotechnical and broad understanding of prosumerism means. Thereafter, the report summarises already existing research on energy social science and humanities relating to renewable energy generation, domestic energy use, and energy communities. The report then delves into the matter of energy sustainability by explicating the concept of sufficiency and achieving actual reductions instead of continued escalations of energy use. The report concludes with the main findings that a broader and more nuanced understanding of energy prosumerism can provide a novel conceptualisation relating to energy provision and everyday life that can lead to future reductions in energy use, as well as a more multifaceted policy response that moves away from business as usual and towards more variegated and radical propositions for achieving sustainable energy use in the future.

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Renewable energy self-consumption: A Policy Brief from the Policy Learning Platform on Low-carbon economy

Renewable energy self-consumption: A Policy Brief from the Policy Learning Platform on Low-carbon economy | Energy Transition in Europe | www.energy-cities.eu | Scoop.it

Self-consumption of renewable energy can provide financial, environmental and security benefits for households, businesses, grid operators-Distribution system operators (DSOs) and transmission system operators (TSOs) and society at large, though the market is newly developing,and significant progress is still needed to both deepen market penetration, and ensure that the grid can manage resulting changes in energy flows. In many countries, solar photovoltaics (PV)is approaching grid parity, making self-consumption an attractive measure, with ‘prosumers’ able to self-consume their generated sustainable electricity and sell-off any excess into the energy grid. Where parity is not yet met, further political and economic support is needed and there are multiple options available for regions. The EU’s Clean Energy Package requires EU Member States to remove barriers to self-consumption, though the exact measures to be implemented are flexible and dependent on national and regional scenarios. For regions, enabling self-consumption puts consumers at the heart of the low-carbon transition and unleashes private investment, so is a potentially cost-effective strategy to meet renewable energy and emissions reductions targets. Although much is determined at the national level, regions have several options available for them to boost self-consumption.

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Harmon’Yeu, première communauté énergétique à l’Île d’Yeu, signée Engie –

Harmon’Yeu, première communauté énergétique à l’Île d’Yeu, signée Engie – | Energy Transition in Europe | www.energy-cities.eu | Scoop.it
Au printemps 2020, Engie, en partenariat avec la mairie de l’Île d’Yeu et trois institutions locales, a lancé une expérimentation innovante d’autoconsommation collective baptisée Harmon’Yeu. Cette première communauté énergétique avec des particuliers et du stockage est désormais active.
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Un collectif à l’initiative de Corinne Lepage lance la bataille pour l’autoconsommation collective - Contexte

Un collectif à l’initiative de Corinne Lepage lance la bataille pour l’autoconsommation collective - Contexte | Energy Transition in Europe | www.energy-cities.eu | Scoop.it

Réunissant plusieurs professionnels du secteur et baptisé « Énergies renouvelables pour tous », il a présenté le 3 mars plusieurs propositions « pour un développement réel de l’autoconsommation collective ». La « petite » loi énergie (art. 39) prévoit une ordonnance pour appliquer en France la directive de 2018 sur les énergies renouvelables, dont un volet vise à lever les freins à l’autoconsommation.

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Photovoltaïque: est-ce toujours rentable à Bruxelles?

Photovoltaïque: est-ce toujours rentable à Bruxelles? | Energy Transition in Europe | www.energy-cities.eu | Scoop.it
Brugel, le régulateur bruxellois de l’énergie a annoncé ce lundi la fin des compteurs qui tournent à l’envers. Un mécanisme qui permettait aux détenteurs de panneaux solaires de déduire de leur facture ce qu’ils avaient produit. Quelle conséquence sur la rentabilité d’une installation ? On fait le point.
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Burgas to give citizens digital tools to install their own solar roofs | TheMayor.EU

Burgas to give citizens digital tools to install their own solar roofs | TheMayor.EU | Energy Transition in Europe | www.energy-cities.eu | Scoop.it
Authorities in Burgas, Bulgaria, presented its solar city strategy during a forum on the future of renewables, energy efficiency and sustainable practices in the city. Authorities would digitalise muc..
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Energie photovoltaïque. La commune de Langouët (35) expérimente une boucle énergétique locale

Energie photovoltaïque. La commune de Langouët (35) expérimente une boucle énergétique locale | Energy Transition in Europe | www.energy-cities.eu | Scoop.it
Depuis peu, la loi autorise les collectivités à produire, mais aussi distribuer à ses habitants, de l’énergie renouvelable produite localement. La commune de Langouët, 600 habitants, située à une vingtaine de kilomètres de Rennes, a installé à proximité de la mairie, un tracker photovoltaïque. L’électricité ainsi produite servira, à terme, à l’ensemble de ses riverains.
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Shaping the role of renewables self-consumers in the Energy Community

Shaping the role of renewables self-consumers in the Energy Community | Energy Transition in Europe | www.energy-cities.eu | Scoop.it

At the start of the new decade, denial of the energy transition in the Energy Community is fading away and a path to the decarbonization of the energy sector is taking shape. While the days of opted-out thermal power plants are numbered, carbon pricing and renewables auctions, resulting in increasingly cheaper electricity, are gaining momentum.
In creating this new energy landscape, the Contracting Parties should recognize and embrace the role end-consumers play in the energy transition. Giving consumers a right to generate, consume, store, and sell self-generated renewable electricity can accelerate the energy transition, whilst allowing renewables self-consumers to reap the benefits of technological development and lower their electricity bills.

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ENERGIE - COLECO, les communautés locales d'énergie éco-responsables

ENERGIE - COLECO, les communautés locales d'énergie éco-responsables | Energy Transition in Europe | www.energy-cities.eu | Scoop.it
Le projet COLECO a pour objectif de lancer une dynamique locale d’autoconsommation collective en Wallonie picarde par la mise en place d’outils digitaux qui permettront de créer des communautés locales d’énergie éco-responsables, c’est-à-dire des communautés de voisins qui produisent et consomment ensemble une énergie locale durable. Le projet est mené par IDETA en collaboration avec l’intercommunale IEG, les communes de Wallonie picarde, la COOPEM (Coopérative Energie Mouscron) et l’entreprise HAULOGY, spécialisée dans le développement de logiciels pour les acteurs du monde énergétique.
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Greenpeace celebra la ‘vía libre’ al autoconsumo eléctrico individual y colectivo en España - ES

El Consejo de Ministros acaba de aprobar el Real Decreto de Autoconsumo que, entre otras cosas, permite a las comunidades de vecinos producir su propia electricidad con renovables
Por primera vez, se establece la remuneración de los excedentes de producción, reconociendo el valor de la electricidad producida por la ciudadanía
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