Objective
PROSEU aims to enable the mainstreaming of the prosumer phenomenon into the European Energy Union. Prosumers are active energy users who both consume and produce renewable energy (RE). The growth of prosumerism all over Europe challenges current energy market structures and institutions. PROSEU research will look into new business models, market regulations, infrastructural integration, technology scenarios and energy policies. PROSEU’s interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary team will closely work together with RE Prosumer Initiatives (15 Living Labs), policymakers and other stakeholders from eight countries, following a quasi-experimental approach to learn how prosumer communities, start-ups and businesses are dealing with their own challenges, and to determine what incentive structures will enable the mainstreaming of RE Prosumerism, while safeguarding citizen participation, inclusiveness and transparency. Moving beyond a case by case and fragmented body of research on prosumers, PROSEU will build an integrated knowledge framework for a socio-political, socioeconomic, business and financial, technological, socio-technical and sociocultural understanding of RE prosumerism and coalesce in a comprehensive identification and assessment of incentive structures to enable the process of mainstreaming RE prosumers in the context of the energy transition.
Fields of science
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
H2020-LCE-2017-RES-RIA-TwoStage
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
1749 016 Lisbon
Portugal
Participants (10)
4099 002 Porto
79098 Freiburg Im Breisgau
EC4R 1BE London
LS2 9JT Leeds
3062 PA Rotterdam
10000 Zagreb
21335 Luneburg
08002 Barcelona
10785 Berlin
2611 HH Delft