Knowledge and skills required to set up and operate clean energy communities

Golob, Urša (author), Kamin, Tanja (author), Barnes, Jake (author)

An appropriate set of skills and knowledge is required to establish and operate clean energy communities (ECs). In most cases, building an EC is a team effort and it is very important not to neglect or undervalue the skills of the people involved. This paper identifies the knowledge and skills required to create and operate an EC. To this end, ten case studies of clean energy communities in six European countries are examined. The study concludes that skills can be divided into two categories: technical (hard skills) and non-technical (mainly soft skills). Pre-existing technical skills are necessary but not sufficient to create and operate ECs. The study also focuses on learning and knowledge management and sharing within and outside communities, with an emphasis on learning by doing.

• Language: English
• Keywords: education, training, knowledge management, renewable energy
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: Str.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-142746
• UDC: 37:502/504
• ISSN on article: 1751-4223
• DOI: 10.1680/jener.22.00046
• COBISS.SI-ID: 130591747
• Publication date in RUL: 23.11.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy
• Shortened title: Proc. Inst. Civ. Eng., Energy
• Publisher: Institution of Civil Engineers
• ISSN: 1751-4223
• COBISS.SI-ID: 3525473

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: H2020
• Project number: 837752
• Name: New Clean Energy Communities in a Changing European Energy System (NEWCOMERS)
• Acronym: NEWCOMERS