Cost and Financing Aspects of Community Renewable Energy Projects - Volume II: Danish Case Study

Publication: Case Study
Citation: IEA-RETD (2016), Cost and financing aspects of community renewable energy projects. Volume II: Danish Case Study. Ricardo Energy & Environment and Ecologic Institute, IEA-RETD Operating Agent, IEA Implementing Agreement for Renewable Energy Technology Deployment (IEA-RETD), Utrecht, 2016.

IEA-RETD (2016), Cost and financing aspects of community renewable energy projects. Volume II: Danish Case Study. Ricardo Energy & Environment and Ecologic Institute, IEA-RETD Operating Agent, IEA Implementing Agreement for Renewable Energy Technology Deployment (IEA-RETD), Utrecht, 2016.

Cost and Financing Aspects of Community Renewable Energy Projects

Volume I: Main Report

Year 2016

Cost and Financing Aspects of Community Renewable Energy Projects - Volume II: German Case Study

Year 2016

Cost and Financing of Community Renewable Energy Projects (FIN-COMMUNITY)

Apr - Nov 2015

Language: English
Authorship: Christine Lucha

Andreas Prahl

Gregory Vaughan-Morris (Ricardo Energy & Environment)

Colin McNaught (Ricardo Energy & Environment)
Funding: International Energy Agency, Renewable Energy Technology Deployment (IEA-RETD), International
Year: 2016
Dimension: 30 pp.
Project: Cost and Financing of Community Renewable Energy Projects (FIN-COMMUNITY)
Project ID: 2119
Table of contents: Click to show full table of contents

1 Introduction
2 Background: The Danish RES market
2.1 Definition of community led projects
2.2 Possible legal forms for RES community based projects
2.3 RES development in Denmark
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 Results from financial modelling
3.4 Comparison of community energy and commercial cost data
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
Keywords: Energy

Denmark

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