Local Energy Communities

Gilles Debizet is an Associate Professor of Urban Planning at Université Grenoble Alpes and a researcher at the Pacte Social Sciences Laboratory since 2006. His research focuses on the integration of climate issues in the making of the contemporary city. He was/is a member of scientific committees (Université Grenoble Alpes, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Réseau RAMAU). He has co-lead the Eco-SESA Cross-Disciplinary Programme since 2017. Marta Pappalardo is an Architect, with a PhD in Urban Planning, currently researcher at the Institute of Urban Planning and Alpine Geography and Pacte Social Sciences Laboratory (Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Science Po Grenoble). Her research focuses on the practices of occupation and management of energy-efficient buildings and on the governance of energy communities. Frédéric Wurtz is a CNRS senior researcher at Grenoble Electrical Engineering Laboratory (G2ELAB) of Grenoble INP - Université Grenoble Alpes and CNRS. He has developed skills at the interface of engineering and social science in the design of energy systems: typically, cars, flights, smart-buildings and smart-grids, eco-districts, smart districts and smart cities, with a current focus on micro-grids and local energy communities.

Table of contents

Co-editors

List of chapter contributors

Preface

Origin of the book

Framework of the book

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Social sciences introduction. Local energy communities: state of the art and chapters cross-sectional analysis

Gilles Debizet and Marta Pappalardo

Engineering sciences introduction. Local Energy Communities: transversal reading

Frédéric Wurtz

Section A) Motivations and internal/local dynamics of energy sharing communities

A.1) Inhabitants’ activities and needs relative to renewable energy pooling and sharing: a prospective scenario approach

Antoine Martin, Marie-France Agnoletti and Eric Brangier

A.2) Shared geothermal energy projects in Montreal: the importance of pre-existing collective action spaces

Myriam Proulx and Sophie Van Neste

A.3) Energy communities and commons: rethinking collective action through inhabited spaces

Marta Pappalardo

A.4) Anticipating energy communities in urban projects: challenges and limits

Inès Ramirez-Cobo, Gilles Debizet and Silvère Tribout

Section B) Collective self-consumption: regulatory framework set-up and controversies

B.1) Regulatory framework of collective self-consumption operations: comparative study France, Spain, Germany

Blanche Lormeteau

B.2) The controversial emergence of collective self-consumption in France

Thibaut Fonteneau

Section C) Citizen cooperatives: inter-scalar idealizing, learning and structuring for scaling up

C.1) Trajectories of renewable energy communities: between democratic processes and economic constraints

Armelle Gomez, Benjamin Tyl, and Aude Pottier

C.2) Emergence and transformation of Enercoop: The French network of electricity supply cooperatives as a new social economy initiative

Rémi Maître

C.3) Cooperation within and the institutionalization of participatory renewable energy projects in France: a focus on co-developed citizen, public and private partnership projects

Amélie Artis, Justine Ballon, Dorian Litvine, Émilie Dias and Sylvie Blangy

Section D) Digital services for peer-to-peer communities: regulatory framework and market

D.1) Emerging digital business models for energy communities: Enablers for citizen participation in the energy transition? – Perspectives from Germany

Christine Dede and Monika Heyder

D.2) Digital technologies for consumer-centred energy markets: opportunities and risks of an energy internet.

Hugo Schönbeck, Anna Gorbacheva and Alexandra Schneiders

D.3) Digital Energy Trading Platforms: An Economic Analysis

Thomas Cortade and Jean-Christophe Poudou

Section E) Design energy projects for multi-stakeholders’ communities: decision-support tools

E.1) Proposal to take into account stakeholders’ motivations in models of optimization decision support tools

Lou Morriet, Frédéric Wurtz and Gilles Debizet

E.2) Decision support for technical design of on-the-spot renewable energy projects involving several stakeholders

Jaume Fitó, Sacha Hodencq, Lou Morriet, Julien Ramousse, Frédéric Wurtz and Gilles DebizetIndex