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8 EEJ 13 (2018-2019)
What Energy Communities Need from Regulation

handle is hein.journals/euenj8 and id is 82 raw text is: EUROPEAN ENERGYJOURNAL#28/#29 The clean energy transition poses many challenges and opportunities for society. At the higher polit- ical levels in Europe, political paralysis prevents appropriate ambition from materializing. Increas- ingly, therefore, citizens are taking matters into their own hands. Together, technological advances and decreasing costs ofuptake are allowing citizens to becoming active participants in the energy tran- sition - both individually and together through communities. Community energy initiatives, often using co-opera- tive and other social-enterprise legal forms that inte- grate open, democratic, and non-commercial owner- ship and governance principles, have grown steadily over the past 30 years. Such initiatives, particularly in the area of renewable energy production, have operated at national level without targeted policy support from the European Union (EU). However, due to increasing market integration of renewables and other clean energy technologies, community in- itiatives risk being locked out of the market. With the conclusion of the Clean Energy for All Europeans Legislative Package (CEP), these 'non-commercial' market actors, officially defined as 'citizen energy communities' (CECs) and 're- newable energy communities' (RECs), are now guaranteed a place in Europe's Internal Energy Market (IEM). Nevertheless, energy communities are a brand new concept in many countries. As member states begin to revise their laws and regula- tions in order to comply with the CEP, many details will be left to national decision makers. This paper aims to provide recommendations on how nation- al regulations must support the development of energy communities so that they can realize their potential and contribute towards social innovation in Europe's energy transition. 13

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