1 Introduction
2 Background: The German RES market
2.1 Definition of community led projects
2.2 Possible legal forms for RES community based projects
2.3 RES development in Germany
2.4 Policy support schemes for RES
3 Costs faced by RES projects
3.1 Commercial RES projects
3.2 Community based RES projects
3.3 Comparison of community energy and commercial cost data
3.4 Results from financial modelling
4 Responses to research questions
4.1 Cost components for different ownership options (community-led, shared ownership and fully commercial)
4.2 External factors that can affect the costs of community-led and shared ownership projects
4.3 Constraints and related cost/ financing implications that only apply to community-led and/ or shared ownership projects
4.4 Whether some of the cost components are invariably higher for community-led and/ or shared ownership projects
4.5 Whether some of the cost components are invariably lower for community-led and/ or shared ownership projects
4.6 Cost projections to 2020
4.7 Opportunities to reduce community-led and/ or shared ownership costs
5 Conclusions
Appendices