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Between efficiency and democracy: Explaining support and resistance towards energy transition and prosumer solutions in Polish and Czech housing cooperatives

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  • Jan Frankowski
  • Joanna Mazurkiewicz
  • Sona Stará
  • Aleksandra Prusak
  • Wojciech BeÅ‚ch
  • Michal Nesládek
  • Tomáš Vácha
  • Krzysztof NiedziaÅ‚kowski

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The paper examines attitudes and perceptions of collective energy investments in multi-family buildings, applying an institutional framework and based on 60 interviews with key policy stakeholders and housing cooperative representatives in Poland and the Czechia. Housing cooperatives are well-positioned to implement renewable energy technologies as top-down, techno-economic investments focused on reducing energy costs. However, such initiatives rarely evolve into participatory or resident-driven models. Energy democratisation is limited by institutional barriers, regulatory and financial instability, and the erosion of local community structures due to ongoing socio-demographic shifts. Where energy transition occurs, it tends to follow a centralised, efficiency-oriented logic, with limited resident engagement. Attempts at prosumer models highlight major legal, policy, and cultural challenges to developing energy communities in this context.

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  • Jan Frankowski & Joanna Mazurkiewicz & Sona Stará & Aleksandra Prusak & Wojciech BeÅ‚ch & Michal Nesládek & Tomáš Vácha & Krzysztof NiedziaÅ‚kowski, 2025. "Between efficiency and democracy: Explaining support and resistance towards energy transition and prosumer solutions in Polish and Czech housing cooperatives," IBS Working Papers 05/2025, Instytut Badan Strukturalnych.
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    • D02 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • Q48 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Government Policy
    • R31 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location - - - Housing Supply and Markets

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