renewable energy cooperatives

2 publications

• The Transition starts here, now and together

  Rob Hopkins, Lionel Astruc, Editions Actes Sud, Arles, France, October 2017

• Empowering Electricity. Co-operatives, Sustainability, and Power Sector Reform in Canada.

  Julie L. MacArthur, University of Bristish Colombia Press, October 2016

5 Videos

• ENERCOOP, supplier of 100% renewable energy in Languedoc-Roussillon, France

  December 2015

  SUSY

• Documentary: Power to the People

  Sabine Lubbe Bakker, July 2015

• REScoop Documentary (Full version)

  August 2014

• Power to the people with renewable energy cooperation (Business Planet - euronews)

  July 2014

• REScoops: what they are and their relevance in the current context

  December 2012

A pedagogical tool

• Rural Electric Cooperative Toolkit

  August 2019

  New Economy Coalition

10 case studies

• January success story: Making community energy a reality in the Czech Republic

  REScoop.eu

  Oscar Güell, January 2024

• Opening Event of the Shonai Renewable Energy Power

  Article of Seikatsu Club.coop, 31/05/2019

  May 2019

• Transforming our world: A cooperative 2030 Cooperative contributions to SDG 7

  ILO Briefs

  June 2018

  BIT/ILO

• Lively exchange activities and regional revitalization spread from Seikatsu Club wind turbine “Yumekaze”

  Seikatzou Club, March 2018

• Earthworker Cooperative

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Earthworker Cooperative, 2018

  TNI

• GOIENER TALDEA – Empowering citizens through energy

  Goiener S Coop, 2018

  TNI

• Local Governments Supporting Local Energy Initiatives: Lessons from the Best Practices of Saerbeck (Germany) and Lochem (The Netherlands)

  Sustainability 2015, 7(2), 1900-1931

  Thomas Hoppe, Antonia Graf, Beau Warbroek, Imke Lammers, Isabella Lepping, 2015

• Social and Economic Benefits of Community Energy Schemes

  report produced by Shared Assets and the National Trust

  Shared Assets and the National Trust, UK, 2014

• What factors enable community-leadership of renewable energy projects? Lessons from a woodfuel heating initiative

  Jennifer C. Rogers, Eunice A Simmons, Ian Convery, Andrew Weatherall, March 2012

• Power to the People: community‐led wind energy – obstacles and opportunities in a South Wales Valley

  Community Development Journal, 36, 96-110.

  Emily Hinshelwood, 2001

22 Analyses/working papers/articles

• Energy sharing for energy communities - a reference guide

  Part of Energy Communities repository of the European Commission

  January 2024

• Financing guide for energy communities

  REScoop.eu and EcoPower, January 2023

• Energy Communities Repository

  European Commission

  2023

• Our Commons. Political ideas for a New Europe

  Sophie Bloemen, Thomas de Groot, May 2019

• Energy, democracy, community

  John Duda, August 2015

• Power To The People: Toward Democratic Control of Electricity Generation

  Trade Unions for Energy Democracy Worling Paper n°4

  June 2015

• The energy transition to energy democracy. Power to the people.

  Final results oriented report of the REScoop 20-20-20 Intelligent Energy Europe project

  REScoop, April 2015

• The institutional space of community initiatives for renewable energy: a comparative case study of the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark

  Energy, Sustainability and Society 2014

  Marieke Oteman, Mark Wiering, Helderman Jan-Kees, 2014

• Power to the people: local energy initiatives as seedbeds of innovation?

  Energy, Sustainability and Society2014

  Maarten Arentsen, Sandra Bellekom, 2014

• Providing clean energy and energy access through cooperatives

  ILO Publication

  December 2013

  BIT/ILO

• Making Space for Economic Democracy: The Danish Wind Power Revolution

  Think pieces for the UNRISD conference “Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy”. 6-8 May 2013

  Andrew Cumbers, May 2013

  UNRISD

• Growing grassroots innovations: exploring the role of community-based initiatives in governing sustainable energy transitions

  Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 30(3) 381 – 400

  Gill Seyfang, Alex Haxeltine, 2012

• Social Factors in Wind Energy Development of Denmark in 1980s – 1990s: Society and Technology

  Panuwat Permsantithum, Rajarajan Rathinavelu, 2012

• Beyond Copenhagen: Common Ownership, Reparations, Degrowth and Renewable Energy Technology Transfer

  Kolya Abramsky, April 2010

• Energy cooperatives and local ownership in the field of renewable energy technologies: A literature review

  RiCC – research report 2010/4

  Anna Schreuer, Daniela Weismeier-Sammer, April 2010

• Community participation through cooperatives in addressing basic services: The Philippine experience

  Paper presented at the United Nation’s Expert Group Meeting on Cooperatives, 28-30 April 2009, New York City

  Virginia A. Teodosio, April 2009

• Stability, participation and transparency in renewable energy policy: Lessons from Denmark and the United States

  Elsevier Policy and Society 27 (2009) 379–398

  Miguel Mendonça, Stephen Lacey, Frede Hvelplund, 2009

• What are the barriers and incentives for community-owned means of energy production and use?

  Energy Policy Volume 36, Issue 12, December 2008, Pages 4401–4405, Elsevier.

  Gordon Walker, December 2008

• Social Acceptance and Social Innovation in Wind Power Technology

  Energy Policy, 35, 2761- 2769.

  2007

• Innovation diffusion, public policy, and local initiative: The case of wood-fuelled district heating systems in Austria

  Energy Policy, 35, 1992-2008

  Madlener Reinhard, 2007

• The Middelgrunden Offshore Wind Farm. A Popular Initiative.

  2003

• Danish Experience in Wind Energy - Local Financing

  Working report for the WELFI project (Wind Energy Local Financing) coordinated by CLER (Comité de Liaison Energies Renouvelables), France with support from the EU SAVE Program.

  Gunnar Boye Olesen, Preben Maegaard, Jane Kruse, December 2002

An article

• Spain’s energy cooperatives lead charge to exploit solar power

  Article of The Guardian, 1 Sept, 2021

  Stephen Burgen, September 2021

  The Guardian

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