New publication of the Chair for Collaborative Economy and Digital Transformation UV: report /5
The development of new technologies of energy production is transforming the paradigm of the centralised energy generation. With the advenment of the distributed energy generation, the traditional role of the citizen as a passive agent of the process of power supply starts to coexist with other models in which the consumer produces their own energy.
In this context, there are new initiatives all over Europe, such as like the Renewable Energy Communities and the Citizen Energy Communities that aim to take advantage of the potential that the combination of the different agents of the energy system and especially of the citizens offers.
From the Chair for Collaborative Economy and Digital Transformation we are interested in detecting which are the innovations that are being carried out in Europe and compare them with the opportunities that the growing Spanish regulation of the distributed energy generation.
Given the critical importance the energy system has for the economy, it was not until very recently that new regulation frameworks that allow to explore possibilities of collaboration among the different agents involved are being now designed. This way, this report aims to be a useful tool for the experts in energy public policies, professionals in the electricity sector, companies, Public Administrations, and consumers to know the potential of new ways of collective energy production, from the perspective of its regulation in the Spanish legal system. To do so, the report has the following specific goals:
- Describing the degree of renewable energy development in Spain, related to the tendences of the rest of European countries.
- Distinguishing between the concepts of self-consumption (individual and collective), Renewable Energy Communities and Citizen Energy Communities.
- Distinguishing between the main agents involved and the different role they have in the process of power supply in a context of implementation of the distributed energy generation.
- Giving a first approach to the different models of Energy Community theoretically and practically existing in Europe.
- Exploring the different ways in which the Public Administrations can promote the development of Renewable Energy Communities and Citizen Energy Communities.
- Identifying and proposing policies to implement by the Public Administrations to promote Energy Communities and take advantage of their capacity to benefit all of us.
The Chair for Collaborative Economy and Digital Transformation is an entity of the Universitat de València that aims to study the phenomena of collaborative economy and digital platforms from a multidisciplinary perspective, that includes economical, sociological and legal analysis. This a project financed by LAS NAVES, a foundation that depends on the Valencia City Council that aima to promote urban and social innovation, through the active collaboration with the public and private sector, the civil society and the academia.
