Forum EnShare Dialogue platform for energy sharing communities

The energy transition thrives on participation. Energy sharing offers the opportunity to participate in the energy transition, even for players without their own generation facilities. The shared use of electricity from renewable energies offers economic opportunities, promotes regional value creation, and increases acceptance of the energy transition. Specifically, a community of private, public, and commercial prosumers can share and jointly use renewable electricity via the public power grid.

The EU Directive 2024/1711 on electricity market design created the first clear legal framework enabling the establishment of energy sharing communities (Article 15a). In Germany, pilot projects such as ESCdigital by the German Energy Agency are demonstrating how energy sharing can be implemented technically and organizationally under the current framework conditions. However, both technical and regulatory obstacles have emerged that are hindering the ramp-up of energy sharing communities.

This is the starting point for Forum EnShare: it brings together stakeholders from practice, science, and politics to exchange experiences, identify challenges, and develop concrete recommendations for action for the successful introduction of energy sharing in Germany.

As part of this project, the IÖW is responsible for the scientific support of the establishment and implementation of an exchange platform, which includes a total of five workshops and two visits to practical sites. A key output of the scientific support will be two impulse papers, developed on the basis of the workshops and practical site visits.