SOCIALRES ENERGY INNOVATION FRAMEWORK: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF EXISTING BUSINESS MODELS FOR RES COOPERATIVE, AGGREGATORS AND CROWDFUNDERS
- Iban Lizarralde
- Mikhail Hamwi
- Silvia Caneva
- Sonja Wilhelm
- David van der Zande
- Audrey Abi Akle
- Basma Samir
- Volker Kromrey
- Dimitri Vedel
- Linda Lentzen
- Andreas Schneller
- Jakob Hoffmann
- Kathrin Kohl
- Johanna Doerpinghaus
- Elisabeth Schmid
- Claudia Crippa
- Eleanor Denny
- James Carroll
- Hangjian Wu
- Maria Regidor
- Sofía Mulero
- Iban Lacoste
- Rodrigo Ruiz
- Santiago Campos
- Eva Otero
- Nuno Brito Jorge
- Francisca Onofre
- Karl Harder
- Tijana Šimek
- Daniela Leonte
- Mihai Policarp
Description
The energy sector is facing a transition phase in which the development of renewable energies and a greater social
participation will be two fundamental measures of this transition. Besides, the liberalization of energy markets permits
new actors to be involved and to develop original business models. Based on the ongoing research activities in the
frame of the H2020 European project SocialRES, aiming to close non-technological research gaps in the energy sector,
this paper contributes to identify how social and environmental standpoints impact different business model in this
sector. The aim is to present a framework to analyse the business models within the energy sector and to apply this
framework to the analysis of three types of businesses associated with social innovation in the renewable energy sector:
Cooperatives, Aggregators and Crowdfunding platforms. The results contribute to energy entrepreneurship and identify
innovative attributes applied either in the supply side or in the demand side.