Energy Communities

Sabine Löbbe is a professor for energy economics and business administration in energy markets in the Reutlingen Energy Center for Distributed Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency at Reutlingen University, Germany. She is responsible for Sustainability in the President’s Office at the University. Her consulting company advises utilities on strategy, business and organizational development. Prior to her current position, she was Director for Strategy and Business Development at the municipal utility swb AG Bremen. She also worked at Arthur D. Little Inc. in the Energy Practice and in the regional utility VSE AG. She wrote her doctoral dissertation about marketing strategies for utilities at Saarbrücken University. In her research and teaching, she focuses on the transition of organisations towards climate neutrality, business model development based on customer preferences regarding distributed energy, as well as organisational issues for bridging the energy efficiency gap. Dr. Fereidoon Sioshansi is President of Menlo Energy Economics, a consulting firm based in San Francisco with over 35 years of experience in the electric power sector working in analysis of energy markets, specializing in the policy, regulatory, technical and environmental aspects of the electric power sector in the US and internationally. His research and professional interests are concentrated in demand and price forecasting, electricity market design, competitive pricing & bidding, integrated resource planning, energy conservation and energy efficiency, economics of global climate change, sustainability, energy security, renewable energy technologies, and comparative performance of competitive electricity markets. Dr. Sioshansi advises major utility clients and government policy makers domestically and internationally on electricity market reform, restructuring and privatization of the electric power sector. He has published numerous reports, books, book chapters and papers in peer-reviewed journals on a wide range of subjects. His professional background includes working at Southern California Edison Co. (SCE), Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), NERA, and Global Energy Decisions. He is the editor and publisher of EEnergy Informer, a monthly newsletter with international circulation. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Electricity Journal where he is regularly featured in the “Electricity Currents” section. Dr. Sioshansi also serves on the editorial board of Utilities Policy and is a frequent contributor to Energy Policy. Since 2006, He has edited 12 books on related topics with Elsevier. David Robinson is a consulting economist and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. He is an academic adviser to The Brattle Group of Economic and Financial Consultants and was previously a director of NERA, where he was the co-chair of European Operations and one of the Directors of the Global Energy and Telecom Practices. He also worked at the International Energy Agency (IEA) and wrote his doctoral dissertation at the University of Oxford on the vertical disintegration of the international petroleum industry.

• Part 1: The Concept of Energy Communities and Their Regulatory Framework1. A taxonomy of energy communities in liberalized energy systems2. The EU policy framework for energy communities3. Energy communities: A US regulatory perspective4. Developing a legal framework for energy communities beyond energy law5. Alignment of energy community incentives with electricity system benefits in Spain6. The “virtual” model for collective self-consumption in Italy7. Energy Communities: A North American Perspective8. Energy Communities: Challenges for Regulators and PolicymakersPart 2: The Appeal of Energy Communities to Customers and Citizens9. What motivates private households to participate in energy communities? A literature review and German case study10. Community energy initiatives as a space for emerging new imaginaries?11. The construction of a citizen-centered ecosystem for renewable energies in France12. Energy communities’ social role in a just energy transitionPart 3: Enabling Technologies, Community Design, and Business Models13. The path to energy communities via local energy management and digital customer care14. Governing energy communities: The role of actors and expertise in business model innovation15. Grid-friendly clean energy communities and induced intra-community cash flows through peer-to-peer trading16. Italian Energy Communities from a DSO’s Perspective17. Community energy design models in Brazil: From niches to mainstream18. Institutional and policy context of energy communities in France and Italy: How to increase the welfare-enhancing capacity of the sector19. The digitalization of peer-to-peer electricity trading in energy communitiesPart 4: Case Studies and Implementation20. Enabling Business Models and Grid Stability: Case Studies from Germany21. Energy communities in Europe: A review of the Danish and German experiences22. Platform-based energy communities in Germany and their benefits and challenges23. A community-based biomethane heat network:Case study from Trier24. Establishing Energy Communities in Post-Communist States:The Case of Bulgaria25. Sustainable island energy systems: A case study of Tilos island, Greece