Definition
The term Community Renewable Energy Systems can be succinctly defined following Klein and Coffey (2016) as follows:
a project to service a group of people at the same geographic location (usually, town size or smaller) with a set of common interests, comprising a self-contained local energy supply system that distributes the energy produced locally (i.e., within the same area) by renewable energy resources; energy management systems and technologies; and methods to share the energy resources, costs, and benefits among all the stakeholders.
Community renewable energy systems typically incorporate some form of peer-to-peer sharing of energy for enhanced efficiency, autonomy, and profits.
Introduction
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Narayanan, A., Nardelli, P.H.J. (2020). Community Renewable Energy Systems. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Affordable and Clean Energy. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71057-0_114-1
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