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Jenny Palm

Jenny Palm

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Jenny Palm

The Transposition of Energy Communities into Swedish Regulations: Overview and Critique of Emerging Regulations

Author

  • Jenny Palm

Summary, in English

One organizational innovation introduced by the clean energy for all Europeans package (CEP) is that of the energy community (EC), including the renewable energy community (REC) and citizen energy community (CEC). The translation of related directives into national legislation is underway in Sweden, and the Swedish Energy Market Inspectorate (Ei) has proposed a new law on ECs, which has been sent for consultation. This article analyzes the Ei proposal and the responses from the 27 referral bodies commenting on the new EC regulations. Positive aspects of the proposal were that it would be a law on ECs and that it would be easy to start and run an EC. Critics were concerned that the law was too vague, the relationship between existing cooperatives and the new ECs was not clear, both CEC and REC are used instead of only using one term, there is a lack of suggestions on supportive measures for ECs, ECs will have less favorable conditions than other micro-producers of electricity, there is a lack of barrier analysis and visions of a future of ECs, and finally, that the situation for marginalized households was not dealt with in the proposal.

Department/s

  • The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics

Publishing year

2021-08-13

Language

English

Publication/Series

Energies

Volume

14

Issue

16

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

MDPI AG

Topic

  • Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • Energy community
  • renewable energy community
  • citizen energy community
  • clean energy for all Euopeans package
  • regulations
  • Sweden

Status

Published

Project

  • Smart Cities Accelerator+
  • NEWCOMERS (New Clean Energy Communities in a Changing European Energy System)
  • Concepts, planning, demonstration and replication of Local User-friendly Energy communities

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1996-1073