Can energy communities face the new reality?

Opinion piece by Ioanna Theodosiou about the new reality Renewable Energy Communities need to confront.

The upcoming transposition of the RED II (2018/2001) and IEMD (2019/944) Directives and the latest bill (L.4795/2020) that gives an end to the fit-in-tariff system for the energy communities from 2022 compose a new reality that Renewable Energy Communities need to face. Energy Communities are also an integral component of a just post-lignite future.

Under this scope the article presents recommendations for the deployment of Energy Communities in order to support Just Transition in Greece’s lignite regions and its road to climate neutrality.

The article titled “Can energy communities face the new reality?” was published (in Greek) in Energypress.gr on 10.05.2021:

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