Igniting university communities : building strategies that empower an energy transition through solar energy communities

López, Ana Belén Cristóbal (author), Narvarte, Luis (author), Victoria, Marta (author), Fialho, Luis (author), Zhang, Zhe (author), Sanz-Cuadrado, Cristina (author), Bokalič, Matevž (author)

Universities as centers for innovation by nature can play a relevant role in serving as education hubs for citizens in energy, promoting individual and collective behavioral changes among community members. By collaborating with their own communities on the energy transition, universities can become more sustainable while providing firsthand experiences that can trigger new attitudes in their students and employees. In this framework, this article explores ways to create partnerships to establish energy communities and promote shared photovoltaic energy facilities in an inclusive manner, emphasizing the social impact of such actions. Four public universities in Aarhus, Évora, Ljubljana, and Madrid are challenged to explore the avenues for turning this vision into reality. In this article, the entire exploratory process is described and the various barriers encountered are highlighted.

• Language: English
• Keywords: citizen sciences, consumer (co-)ownerships, energy clusters, energycommunities, energy transitions, European Union, universities
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FE - Faculty of Electrical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication date: 03.11.2023
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: 14. str.
• Numbering: Vol. 7, iss. 24, [article no.] 2300498
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-154411
• UDC: 620.9
• ISSN on article: 2367-198X
• DOI: 10.1002/solr.202300498
• COBISS.SI-ID: 183720451
• Publication date in RUL: 13.02.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Solar RRL
• Publisher: Wiley
• ISSN: 2367-198X
• COBISS.SI-ID: 11745620

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.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: državljanska znanost, potrošniško solastništvo, energetske skupnosti, zeleni prehod, Evropska Unija, univerze

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P2-0415
• Name: Fotovoltaika in elektronika

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: H2020
• Project number: 101036418
• Name: Achieving a new European Energy Awareness.
• Acronym: AURORA