Las «Comunidades energéticas locales»: un nuevo desafío para las entidades locales

Abstract

This article analyzes the new concepts of "renewable energy communities" and "citizen energy communities" that are included in the Directives 2018/2001 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources, and 2019/944 on common rules for the internal market for electricity, respectively. Our objective is to determine the legal nature of these legal entities, based on the premise that a local entity participates in them; and at the same time, to clarify the legal regime of the activities that they may undertake. Finally, we put forward their intervention in the field of urban rehabilitation and renovation. In short, it is a propositional study of lege ferenda on entities that lack a regulatory framework at the domestic level, but which Spain has to adopt in the immediate future.

Keywords

• citizen energy communities
• renewable energy communities