David against Goliath? Challenges and opportunities for energy cooperatives in Southern Europe

Delicado, Ana; Pallarès-Blanch, Marta; García-Marín, Ramón; Valle, Carolina del; Prados, María-José

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David against Goliath? Challenges and opportunities for energy cooperatives in Southern Europe

dc.contributor.author	Delicado, Ana
dc.contributor.author	Pallarès-Blanch, Marta
dc.contributor.author	García-Marín, Ramón
dc.contributor.author	Valle, Carolina del
dc.contributor.author	Prados, María-José
dc.contributor.department	Geografía
dc.coverage.spatial	Sureste de Europa	es
dc.coverage.spatial	Portugal	es
dc.coverage.spatial	España	es
dc.coverage.spatial	Italia	es
dc.coverage.temporal	Siglo XXI	es
dc.date.accessioned	2024-02-01T13:06:30Z
dc.date.available	2024-02-01T13:06:30Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description	2214-6296/© 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). This article is available under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND license and permits non-commercial use of the work as published, without adaptation or alteration provided the work is fully attributed. For commercial reuse, permission must be requested below.	es
dc.description.abstract	Unlike in some northern European countries, renewable energy cooperatives in Portugal, Spain and Italy are few and represent a very small share of the energy market. This article aims to understand the social, political, economic and cultural factors that affect the development of renewable energy cooperatives in southern Europe, but also the opportunities and benefits cooperatives offer over other energy providers in the energy transition. It is based on a comparative analysis of four case studies of cooperatives in Portugal, Spain and Italy, relying on document analysis, observation and interviews with cooperative representatives, complemented with legal, policy and statistical data for contextualisation. We ascertain that energy policies have favoured large utility companies and concentrated energy generation, while a lack of civic culture of participation and mistrust of cooperatives have also hindered their development. Furthermore, we show how cooperatives have unique features that make them valuable actors in energy systems: promotion of environmental and social values, local embeddedness, flexibility to diversify activities, ability to mobilise networks of similar organisations and fostering democratic governance and participation.	es
dc.format	application/pdf	es
dc.format.extent	11	es
dc.identifier.citation	Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 103, September 2023, 103220
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103220
dc.identifier.issn	Electronic: 2214-6296
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/138434
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Elsevier	es
dc.relation	This work was supported by the European Commission through the MSC RISE programme (Grant Agreement 778039, PEARLS Planning and Engagement Arenas for Renewable Energy LandscapeS), by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness of Spain (Grant CS02017-84986, TERRYER Sostenibilidad Territorial del modelo energético bajo en carbono. Territorios y energias renovables) and by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain and FEDER (Grant PID2021-123940OB-I00 Innovación Socio-territorial para la Transición Energética en la Península Ibérica - STEP (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/)).	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Renewable energy	es
dc.subject	Cooperatives	es
dc.subject	Southern Europe	es
dc.subject	Energy policy	es
dc.subject	Energy transition	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::6 - Ciencias aplicadas::62 - Ingeniería. Tecnología	es
dc.title	David against Goliath? Challenges and opportunities for energy cooperatives in Southern Europe	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es