{"id":1404,"date":"2016-09-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/uncategorized\/1404\/report-the-potential-of-energy-citizens-in-the-eu\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T09:34:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:34:15","slug":"report-the-potential-of-energy-citizens-in-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/issues\/climate-energy\/1404\/report-the-potential-of-energy-citizens-in-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: The potential of energy citizens in the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"leader\">\n\tWith an increasing share of renewable energy sources (RES) in the European<br \/>\nUnion (EU), the role of energy consumers as active participants in the energy<br \/>\nsystem is bound to expand, as the developments in an increasing number of<br \/>\nEU Member States demonstrate. A growing number of households, public<br \/>\norganizations and small enterprises are likely to produce energy, supply<br \/>\ndemand-side flexibility or store energy in times of oversupply.<br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<div>\n<p>So far,\u00a0however, the extent of this prosumer potential in the EU is unknown.\u00a0Global and EU-wide decarbonisation scenarios typically model increasing RES\u00a0capacities, but do not go into the details of how this is achieved, and what\u00a0role prosumers, also referred to as energy citizens, could play in these\u00a0developments.<\/p>\n<p>This study therefore aims to create more insight into the potential of energy\u00a0citizens in the EU: how many energy citizens could there be in 2030 and 2050\u00a0throughout the EU and what is their potential contribution to renewable\u00a0energy production and demand side flexibility?<\/p>\n<p>The main result of this project is an Excel workbook that contains the detailed\u00a0quantitative findings of this study. This report provides the background\u00a0information to these data, describing the context of the study and the\u00a0methodology used. The study was commissioned by Greenpeace, Friends of the\u00a0Earth Europe, European Renewable Energy Federation (EREF) and REScoop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2018\/08\/2ef7fcdf-2ef7fcdf-160926-ce-delft-the-potential-of-energy-citizens-in-the-eu.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">160926 CE Delft &#8211; The potential of energy citizens in the EU<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With an increasing share of renewable energy sources (RES) in the European Union (EU), the role of energy consumers as active participants in the energy system is bound to expand,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,37],"p4-page-type":[20],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-energy","tag-energytransition","tag-renewables","p4-page-type-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2401,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/2401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}