Titlebook: Alternating Current – Social Innovation in Community Energy; Arwen Colell Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-368-0283-3Key findings of this study point to three underlying arguments to be made in reference to the current community energy literature, and the study of civil society-led processes of transition more generally.

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Islands: Sams? and MullThis second chapter of innovation biographies presents community energy projects on the two islands of Sams?, Denmark and Mull, Scotland. Beyond the basic similarity of geography, these cases share a pragmatic, rather than ideational, impulse for community energy engagement, and a strong role for project management.

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An Unlikely Couple: Fintry and OldenburgAlthough quite different at first glance, Fintry Development Trust, the pioneer of community energy involvement in the Scottish Lowlands, and olegeno, the failed attempt of a citizen-led take-over of the power grid in a city of 165.000 in Northern Germany, the projects’ innovation biographies show similarities.

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Challenges: Returning to Shared SymbolsChallenges to community energy projects, can arise from within the project, from project conditions or as a result of external events. Internal challengers include leadership change or resource scarcity, or events immediately connected to but not directed by the project such as a critical audit of a cooperative.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5687-8h as decision-making processes, ownership structures, or narrative as equally important for system design and change. The community energy literature is increasingly referencing social innovations to recognize the agency of civil society or grassroots actors (‘grassroots innovations’). Avelino and c