The power of friends and neighbors: a review of community energy research

•We investigate research on community energy.•Community energy is studied with highly different approaches.•There is little interaction between the approaches.•Research concentrates on a small number of ‘developed’ countries. The threat of climate change and the Paris agreement to limit global tempe...

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Published in:Current opinion in environmental sustainability Vol. 39; pp. 71 - 80
Main Authors: van der Schoor, Tineke, Scholtens, Bert
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V 01.08.2019
Subjects:
climate change
energy
Germany
Netherlands
temperature
United Kingdom
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
United States
United Kingdom
Netherlands
United States
Germany
ISSN:1877-3435, 1877-3443
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Summary:•We investigate research on community energy.•Community energy is studied with highly different approaches.•There is little interaction between the approaches.•Research concentrates on a small number of ‘developed’ countries. The threat of climate change and the Paris agreement to limit global temperature rise to well below 2°C and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C has stimulated research on and broad commitment to community energy. We investigate this research. We assess how nine different approaches study community energy over time, which methods they use, which countries and regions they focus on, and where they discuss and publish. We analyze the keywords used to identify the research and investigate how these differ along the approaches. We show that community energy research took off only very recently and that especially ‘developed’ countries, in particular, the United Kingdom, United States, Germany, and the Netherlands, are studied. Different networks contribute to the understanding of community energy; however, the maturity and reach of these networks vary and there is limited exchange between research networks.
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ISSN:1877-3435
1877-3443
DOI:10.1016/j.cosust.2019.08.004