The Role of Electricity Prosumers in Regenerative Communities

Energy is a critical element to support the activities and well-being of society and it can provide a mechanism for strategic investment and development. This paper describes a framework to explore the role of electricity prosumers in regenerative communities. Electricity prosumers are electricity consumers who have acquired the means of local energy production and have strategic energy and economic objectives. We illustrate how an initial investment on managed solar PV by a community prosumer could be utilized to support regenerative community objectives, where the community is empowered to revitalize itself. We show how the proposed model realizes higher levels of resilience and enables improvement of other regenerative community capitals.