Thermal energy community-based multi-dimensional business model framework and critical success factors investigation in the mediterranean region of the EU

Arnau González, Pol Arranz-Piera, Borja Olives, Aleksandar Ivancic, Conrad Pagà and Marc Cortina

Technology in Society, 2023, vol. 75, issue C

Abstract: Rural areas have gained relevance in the EU policy framework as a result of the experienced depopulation trend experienced in these areas. Smart Rural Communities are recognized as effective means to tackle this issue by delivering smart services to local population leading to improved economic competitivity. One of the major challenges, among others, is to deliver renewable energy matching existing demand in opposition of fossil-fuel based solutions. To this end, Energy Communities (EC) potential to deploy Renewable Energies (RE) while improving supplier – consumer engagement and empowering the energy consumer. Despite the advances throughout the EU in the deployment of ECs, the vast majority of them are based on PV systems, leaving a huge path for development of novel business models for thermal energy communities, mainly due to the existing economic and social barriers to thermal energy communities’ deployment.

Keywords: Smart rural communities; Energy communities; Thermal energy communities; Business models; Bioenergy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102328

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