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@ARTICLE{Vgele:1007652,
author = {Vögele, Stefan and Broska, Lisa Hanna and Ross, Andrew and
Rübbelke, Dirk},
title = {{M}acroeconomic impacts of energy communities and
individual prosumers: {A}n assessment of transformation
pathways},
journal = {Energy, Sustainability and Society},
volume = {13},
number = {1},
issn = {2192-0567},
address = {Heidelberg},
publisher = {Springer},
reportid = {FZJ-2023-02144},
pages = {13},
year = {2023},
abstract = {Background Active citizen participation, especially as
collective prosumers in energy communities or as
individualprosumers, is vital for a sustainable energy
transition. As such, it is explicitly supported by European
Union policy. It isthe aim of policy-makers that a large
proportion of the residential energy demand will be met in
this way. At present,there is limited analysis on the
macroeconomic impacts of such an increase in prosumers. In
this study, we developand apply an approach for assessing
the macroeconomic impacts of transformation pathways, which
depict potentialdevelopments of individual and collective
prosumers.Results The paper methodologically demonstrates
how to macroeconomically assess scenarios and transformation
pathways originating from cross-impact balance analyses by
means of an input–output analysis. In particular,it is
shown how qualitative data on future developments can be
transformed into financial flows so as to enable
aninput–output analysis. Based on the assessment of two
transformation pathways, our main findings suggest thatthere
might be positive regional and national effects on net value
added and employment as well as reductions inCO2 emissions.
We find that the scale of the effects strongly depends on
the spatial distribution of heterogeneoushouseholds and the
underlying economic structure.Conclusions Our study
represents a methodological advancement by showing how
scenarios and transformationpathways can be assessed in
terms of their macroeconomic consequences. This study shows
that energy communities and individual prosumers might
generate positive effects on value added and on employment.
Given that households fix their energy supply options for
decades, political decisions to support the energy
transition in the residentialsector should be taken as soon
as possible.},
cin = {IEK-STE},
ddc = {333.7},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-STE-20101013},
pnm = {1112 - Societally Feasible Transformation Pathways
(POF4-111) / DFG project 491111487 -
Open-Access-Publikationskosten / 2022 - 2024 /
Forschungszentrum Jülich (OAPKFZJ) (491111487)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-1112 / G:(GEPRIS)491111487},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000992406900001},
doi = {10.1186/s13705-023-00395-3},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1007652},
}