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Jenny Palm

Jenny Palm

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Jenny Palm

Energy communities as accelerators of energy transition in cities

Author

  • Jenny Palm

Editor

  • Kes McCormick
  • James Evans
  • Yuliya Voytenko Palgan
  • Niki Frantzeskaki

Summary, in English

The European Green Deal states that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions should be reduced by at least 50% by 2030, and that there should be no net GHG emissions by 2050. The energy sector is a key in this transformation, and energy communities can as accelerators of transitions

Key findings:

•Future scenarios outline a decentralized energy system in which smaller generation units have become more economically viable and turned economies ‘upside down’.

•This will be an energy system with increased penetration of information technologies, allowing for more flexible and less hierarchical management of infrastructure.

•This future system will also entail, for example, the increased electrification of transportation infrastructure and the increased use of heat pumps in energy-efficient buildings.

Department/s

  • The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics

Publishing year

2023-09-01

Language

English

Pages

69-80

Publication/Series

A Research Agenda for Sustainable Cities and Communities

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Edward Elgar Publishing

Topic

  • Energy Systems
  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • energy community
  • decentralised energy systems
  • energy democracy
  • energy justice
  • energy citizenship
  • Urban transition

Status

Published

Project

  • NEWCOMERS (New Clean Energy Communities in a Changing European Energy System)
  • Resistance and effect – on smart grids for the many people

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9781800372023
  • ISBN: 9781800372030