Understanding the scaling-up of community energy niches through strategic niche management theory: Insights from Finland
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In this paper, the authors identify different types of community energy projects and the factors that may prevent them from scaling up and show which initiatives could be more inclined to be part of a strategy aiming at scaling up the sector, highlighting how exogenous factors such as cultural aspects, specific context in which community energy develops and the characteristics of community groups are also relevant in the scaling-up process.About:
This article is published in Journal of Cleaner Production.The article was published on 2018-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 57 citations till now.read more
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