Pluralising the European energy landscape: Collective renewable energy prosumers and the EU's clean energy vision

To fulfil the European Union's (EU) goal of providing ‘Clean Energy for All Europeans', a transformative shift from centralised, fossil-fuel based systems to decentralised on renewable energy sources (RES) is envisaged. Keen lead clean transition while embedding technological innovation and elements justice equitability into envisioned ‘Energy Union’, EU Member States need their citizens board as active participants. Prosumerism or self-consumption an important part this citizen involvement. While new regulatory framework now recognises civic-inspired prosumer initiatives such communities, little known about full range diversity collective actors in well how they engage with changing system. This paper presents exploratory categorisation different social that produce consume sources, referred ‘collective RES prosumers’, aiming clarify participation landscape. We find six categories engagement needs, which we relate EU's current framing actors. recommend fine-tuning policies support true-to-vision transposition recently completed Clean Package (CEP).