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Multiplying Mighty Davids?

The Influence of Energy Cooperatives on Germany's Energy Transition

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Authors:
  1. Sarah Debor

    1. Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Wuppertal, Germany

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  • Explores the potentials and limitations of energy cooperatives as main players in Germany's energy transition
  • Collects unique data on German energy cooperatives
  • Contributes theoretically towards supplementing actor research and enterprise research in the field of sustainability transitions science

Part of the book series: Contributions to Economics (CE)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Sarah Debor
    Pages 1-11

  3. Energy Cooperatives: A ‘New’ Phenomenon in Germany

    • Sarah Debor
    Pages 13-20

  4. Germany’s Energiewende

    • Sarah Debor
    Pages 21-35

  5. Organisations in the Context of Socio-technical Transitions

    • Sarah Debor
    Pages 37-102

  6. Research Design and Methods

    • Sarah Debor
    Pages 103-126

  7. German Energy Cooperatives: A Rising Cosmopolitan Enterprise Community

    • Sarah Debor
    Pages 127-157

  8. Analysis of Dominant Collaborative Interaction Models

    • Sarah Debor
    Pages 159-321

  9. Discussion of Results

    • Sarah Debor
    Pages 323-351

  10. Conclusion and Outlook

    • Sarah Debor
    Pages 353-362

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 363-425
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About this book

This book systematically describes and evaluates the impact of energy cooperatives as a key driving force in the German energy transition toward a sustainability-oriented energy sector. Based on a comprehensive survey and three case studies, it provides an instructive overview of the overall dimensions and scope of energy cooperatives in Germany, and of their history, structure and current investment projects. The book not only contributes to the energy policy discourse in Germany, but also highlights the role of energy cooperatives to enable an international readership to explore their potential in other countries. Further, it makes a theoretical contribution toward substantially supplementing actor research in general, and enterprise research in particular, in the field of sustainability transitions science.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Wuppertal, Germany

    Sarah Debor

About the author

Sarah Debor focusses her research on the German energy transition, business models, innovative grassroots pioneers and energy cooperatives. She successfully completed the PhD program in business and economics at the Schumpeter School of the University of Wuppertal, Germany in 2017. For the time of her PhD, she was researcher at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy GmbH, Germany as well as part of the Science Cluster on the Great Transformation of the Heinrich Boell Foundation.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Multiplying Mighty Davids?

  • Book Subtitle: The Influence of Energy Cooperatives on Germany's Energy Transition

  • Authors: Sarah Debor

  • Series Title: Contributions to Economics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77628-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77627-9Published: 11 June 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08498-1Published: 26 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77628-6Published: 30 May 2018

  • Series ISSN: 1431-1933

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-7178

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 425

  • Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Natural Resource and Energy Economics, Industrial Organization, Renewable and Green Energy

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