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Energy as a commons?

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=== The technological dimension ===

* both electricity and information are exchanged

* ensuring interoperability in smart power grids

* reporting energy usage to increase efficiency

=== The environmental dimension ===

* pushing decarbonisation

* Consumers more likely to install renewable sources of energy (e.g. solar panels)

* consumers have a greater influence on the amount of renewable energy used in Europe

== The Present: Obstacles to be adressed ==

=== The economic dimension ===

* more efficiency through smart grids

* flexibility through information of residential energy use

* intelligent and flexible grids instead of linear distribution

=== The societal dimension ===

* Energy illiteracy: In the current system, the user is a passive consumer, always dependent on utility companies, ignorant of how the energy system works

=== The technological dimension ===

* both electricity and information are exchanged

* ensuring interoperability in smart power grids

* reporting energy usage to increase efficiency

=== The environmental dimension ===

* pushing decarbonisation

* Consumers more likely to install renewable sources of energy (e.g. solar panels)

* consumers have a greater influence on the amount of renewable energy used in Europe

~~How can passive consumers turn into active prosumers?~~

~~How are EU citizens currently involved in large-scale EU projects such as Connecting Europe Facility?~~

~~Questions to be answered in the resolution~~

How can consumers be turned into prosumers?

How will power grids, distributed energy etc. be regulated?

~~Who will manage the grid?~~

Should renewable energy sources be in the focus?

Michaelernst

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