CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Mora, Menta |
|---|---|
| Title | Energy Communities Between Policy and Civic Engagement: Denmark, Netherlands, and Germany |
| Summary | The thesis focuses on mapping energy community (EC) formation trends and the main factors driving the process in the three EU Member States with the highest number of energy communities: Denmark, the Netherlands, and Germany. The scope of the analysis is the period from 1970 to 2023. The purpose is to show that tools de-risking energy community projects and minimising instability incentivise EC formation the most. After analysing the policy and financial frameworks targeting energy communities in each country, the thesis estimates the treatment effect of selected policy interventions using a difference-in-differences method with Manski’s bounding to correct for non-parallelism in the pre-trends. The policy interventions chosen for performing the difference-in-differences are the introduction of feed-in tariffs in Denmark and Germany and the introduction of market premiums in the Netherlands. The estimated treatment effects for Denmark and the Netherlands follow the hypothesis that longterm compensation schemes are associated with higher treatment effects. The estimated impact of feed-in tariffs in Germany, which is lower than what the literature suggests, shows that fluctuations in the number of ECs can occur despite providing favourable conditions for them. The German example also poses the question of whether there is a ceiling for energy community formation. |
| Supervisor | Piroska, Dora |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/mora_menta.pdf |
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