Coopetitive Platform: Common Benefits in Electricity and Gas Distribution

Wojciech Czakon, Karolina Mucha-Kuś and Maciej Sołtysik
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Wojciech Czakon: Department of Strategic Management, Jagiellonian University, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
Karolina Mucha-Kuś: Department of Management, WSB University, Cieplaka 1c, 41-300 Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland
Maciej Sołtysik: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Częstochowa University of Technology, Armii Krajowej 17, 42-200 Częstochowa, Poland

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 21, 1-18

Abstract: Simultaneous collaboration and competition, or coopetition, has so far been studied among firms or non-profit organizations, leaving the public arena largely unexplored. This study focuses on identifying and measuring common benefit generation by local government actors in coopetition. We purposefully choose a metropolis composed of 41 municipalities setting to identify and measure those effects of coopetition that cannot be achieved by individual actors alone. We use real data and tariffs to run simulations that identify common and individual benefits generated in gas and electricity distribution. We find that savings can be achieved by mutualizing energy procurement, even though the distribution of savings is not equal among municipalities. We substantiate that energy communities can act as coopetitive platforms to optimize energy costs of municipalities.

Keywords: coopetition; electricity and gas distribution costs; energy communities; metropolis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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