Welcome to Energy Literacy for Energy Communities, a handbook created by the NEWCOMERS project. The handbook offers an introduction to some of the concepts and considerations relating to energy communities and their role in the energy system. It is written for community members, and anyone else interested in joining the energy community movement.
The NEWCOMERS project (New clean energy communities in a changing European energy system) is a Horizon 2020 project, that delivers practical recommendations about how the European Union, as well as national and local governments, can support new clean energy communities to help them flourish and unfold their potential benefits for citizens and the Energy Union.
The purpose of this handbook is to:
- Educate energy community members about the physical, technical, infrastructural, social, economic, political, and other aspects of our energy systems;
- Raise awareness about the role of the energy community movement in local energy transitions;
- Equip energy community members with key knowledge to draw on in their efforts to establish, run, and improve their energy communities;
- Give other interested audiences an overview of the current and possible future roles of energy communities in the energy system.
The printed, pdf version of the handbook is available here.
Authors
This handbook was put together by the NEWCOMERS project and experts from its partner organisations, with additional help from external experts, with whom we collaborated during the project.
Editors / authors: Mojca Drevenšek and Iva Tajnšek, Consensus communications
Contributing experts
NEWCOMERS partners:
- Dr. Julia Blasch, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Prof. Jenny Palm, Lund University
- Dr. Paula Hansen, University of Oxford
- Dr. Tanja Kamin, University of Ljubljana
- Dr. Urša Golob, University of Ljubljana
- Dr. Tina Kogovšek, University of Ljubljana
- Dr. Primož Medved, University of Ljubljana
- Dr. Monica Musolino, Institute for Advanced Energy Technologies “Nicola Giordano”
- Dr. Mark Andor, Leibniz Institute for Economic Research (RWI)
- Andreja Smole, GEN-I
Other contributors:
- Prof. Andrej Gubina, University of Ljubljana
- Mojca Suvorov, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
