A Europe-wide inventory of citizen-led energy action with data from 29 countries and over 10000 initiatives

August Wierling; Valeria Jana Schwanitz; Jan Zeiss; Constantin von Beck; Heather Jean Arghandeh Paudler; Ingrid Knutsdotter Koren; Tobias Kraudzun; Timothy Marcroft; Lukas Müller; Zacharias Andreadakis; Chiara Candelise; Simon Dufner; Melake Getabecha; Grete Glaase; Wit Hubert; Veronica Lupi; Sona Majidi; Shirin Mohammadi; Negar Safara Nosar; Yann Robiou du Pont; Philippa Roots; Tadeusz Józef Rudek; Alessandro Sciullo; Gayatri Sehdev; Mehran Ziaabadi; Nahid Zoubin

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A Europe-wide inventory of citizen-led energy action with data from 29 countries and over 10000 initiatives

August Wierling
, Valeria Jana Schwanitz
, Jan Zeiss
, Constantin von Beck
, Heather Jean Arghandeh Paudler
, Ingrid Knutsdotter Koren
, Tobias Kraudzun
, Timothy Marcroft
, Lukas Müller
, Zacharias Andreadakis
, Chiara Candelise
, Simon Dufner
, Melake Getabecha
, Grete Glaase
, Wit Hubert
, Veronica Lupi
, Sona Majidi
, Shirin Mohammadi
, Negar Safara Nosar
, Yann Robiou du Pont

Philippa Roots, Tadeusz Józef Rudek, Alessandro Sciullo, Gayatri Sehdev, Mehran Ziaabadi, Nahid Zoubin

Environmental Economics

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Abstract

Numerous case studies show that citizens engage in various ways in renewable and low carbon energy projects, thereby contributing to the sustainable energy transition. To date, however, a systematic and cross-country database on citizen-led initiatives and projects is lacking. By performing a major compilation and reviewing copious data sources from websites to official registries, we provide a Europe-wide inventory with over 10,000 initiatives and 16,000 production units in 29 countries, focusing on the past 20 years. Our data allow cross-country statistical analysis, supporting the elicitation of empirical insights capable of extending beyond the perspective of single case studies. Our data also align with ongoing efforts to implement two EU Directives that aim at strengthening the active role of citizens in the energy transition. While the focus of our data collection is on Europe, the data and methodology can contribute to the global analysis of citizen-led energy action.

Original language	English
Article number	9
Pages (from-to)	1-8
Number of pages	8
Journal	Scientific Data
Volume	10
Early online date	4 Jan 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01902-5
Publication status	Published - 2023

Funding

This paper is supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreements No 837722 and No. 883823 (project COMETS - Collective action models for energy transition and social innovation, project EERAdata - Towards a FAIR and open data ecosystem in the low-carbon energy research community, resp.).

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Horizon 2020 Framework Programme	883823, 837722

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Wierling, A., Schwanitz, V. J., Zeiss, J., Beck, C. V., Paudler, H. J. A., Koren, I. K., Kraudzun, T., Marcroft, T., Müller, L., Andreadakis, Z., Candelise, C., Dufner, S., Getabecha, M., Glaase, G., Hubert, W., Lupi, V., Majidi, S., Mohammadi, S., Nosar, N. S., ... Zoubin, N. (2023). A Europe-wide inventory of citizen-led energy action with data from 29 countries and over 10000 initiatives. Scientific Data, 10, 1-8. Article 9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01902-5

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