Lessons from European renewable energy communities

By creating structures for marginalized communities to generate their own renewable electricity, community-driven programs like Europe’s Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) have the potential to improve energy justice. However, as AGCI’s Emily Jack-Scott and Energy Innovation Policy & Technology LLC®’s Hadley Tallackson explain, recent research illustrates how RECs must be carefully designed to not worsen energy inequities facing low-income and vulnerable households.