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

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Date
28/09/2019
Author
van der Schoor, Tineke
Scholtens, Bert
Keywords
Community energy
Academic networks
Renewable energy
Local energy
Energy transition
Literature review
GE Environmental Sciences
Environmental Science(all)
Social Sciences(all)
SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 13 - Climate Action
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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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van der Schoor , T & Scholtens , B 2019 , ' The power of friends and neighbors : a review of community energy research ' , Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability , vol. 39 , pp. 71-80 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.08.004
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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.08.004
ISSN
1877-3435
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Copyright © 2019 Elsevier B.V. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.08.004
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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/20694

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