Datasets collected as part of the project EC2 - Energy Citizenship and Energy Communities for a Clean-Energy Transition within WP4.

Data for this deliverable was collected among various types of energy communities and within different sociopolitical contexts:

A representative sample of the Dutch general population via a pre-recruited panel (based on gender, education, income, and age; 3 waves with 6 months in between) & a gender representative sample of the Spanish general population via a pre-recruited panel (3 waves with 6 months in between). Members and non-members of a network of local energy initiatives called Buurkracht (which roughly translates to “neighbor power”) in the Netherlands (2 waves with 9 months in between). Members of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) in Europe (2 waves with 12 months in between). Members of various energy communities in Europe (EU Ecom) via REScoop, the European federation of citizen energy cooperatives, and via the Local Governments for Sustainability global network (ICLEI). The Polish Housing Cooperative Wroclaw South (HCWS) in which multiple energy community initiatives were initiated such as an initiative among residents to collectively decide to install PV systems on a particular building.

More limited versions of these datasets (e.g., including socio-demographics, levels of involvement in energy communities, number of contacts within energy community, more detailed household energy measures) were published with open access on ZENODO: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11401046

The following publications include (a number of) these studies:

Goedkoop, F., Jans, L., Perlaviciute, G., Hamann, K. R. S., Corcoran, K., Held, J., Masson, T., Fritsche, I., & Athenstaedt, U. (2024). Report Correlational Longitudinal Studies (D4.3). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11402044

Jans, L., Goedkoop, F., Perlaviciute, G., Hamann, K., Masson, T., & Burgerhof, B. (2024). How bottom-up and top-down governance of community energy initiatives affects citizens’ perceptions, acceptability, and willingness to join. Energy Policy, 195, 114389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114389. (Study 1 in this paper, is based on dataset Panel_NL_ES-Longitudinal Data).