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Joint procurement: How does collective action work for investing in renewable energy at community level?

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The video is an extract of the webinar series "Energy communities, self-production, self-consumption: frameworks, practices and tools" which took place between June and December 2020. It presents the work of Gabriella Doci: transition to a sustainable future requires not only technical, but also societal changes, including changes in behavioral patterns and consumer roles. Renewable energy communities embody such changes: they are mainly residential communities that break with their passive consumer role and produce the energy from renewable energy resources in order to meet primarily local needs. Althought he number of these communities has increased remarkably in the last decade in many Western countries, as has the academic attention paid tothem, we have still a limited knowledge on how they are formedand operate. It is unclear how they get their members to work collectively on a voluntary basis for a common goal, that is, energy production at the local level and overcome the challenge of free-riding. This article seeks to contribute to a better understanding of the institutional and social context in which these communities operate, and of the way they are created and function. Therefore, the research question addressed is: What factors influence the formation and organization of renewable energy communities? In particular, the interest is in strategies for group formation, task distribution,collective action, communication, decision making and problemsolving. To answer the researchquestion,a comparative case study analysisis provided for Germany and the Netherlands, where communitieswere studied that weredifferent intheir location, size and the technology they use. The commonalities between these communities and their general practices that led to the successful implementation of their projectsare analyzed. Contrary to Olson’s expectation about voluntary collective action, renewable energy communities can realize a project based on the work of only a few volunteers who develop the project without receiving any additional reward and who also accept free-riding. However, the larger the size of the community and the complexity of the project the more likely it is that they need to formally organize the procedure or count on external help. [Abstract submitted in response to the call for papers]

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Gabriella Doci. Joint procurement: How does collective action work for investing in renewable energy at community level?. 2020. ⟨hal-03576528⟩

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