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Global energy demand has continued to rise since the mid-20th century as a result of industrial development and population growth. Urban areas consume over two-thirds of the world’s energy and generate around 70 percent of its greenhouse gas emissions. Renewable energy is a promising solution to the increasing energy crisis and environmental issues, and communities play a crucial role in the energy transition to a sustainable and low-carbon energy system. Currently, community energy consumption accounts for more than 30% of total social energy consumption, which has long been a key direction for energy system optimization. If households and enterprises work together to improve energy efficiency, the entire community will improve environmental and economic efficiency. In addition, energy sharing among communities is an important measure to alleviate energy shortage and promote the efficiency of renewable energy use. The carbon market and electricity market play an important role in encouraging community energy sharing and improving energy consumption efficiency. The rapid development of technology has expanded the ability of communities to jointly operate different energy sources. Research on community energy sharing and consumption is of great significance for achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement implemented in 2016.

Possible topics for publication include but are not limited to:

Carbon–electricity market, community energy sharing;
Low-carbon community, sustainable community, and clean energy community;
Energy storage scheme;
Energy consumption of intelligent buildings;
Community electric transport;
Energy structure transition;
Community energy-sharing mechanism;
Sharing energy storage trading mechanism;
Community integrated energy system;
Community energy storage allocation and optimization;
Low-carbon transformation of enterprises;
Energy consumption of residents;
Livable community environment.

Dr. Jun Li
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Keywords

energy community
renewable energy sources
sharing mechanism
carbon–electricity market
energy sharing ratio
shared energy storage system
energy system design optimization
green energy
energy consumption
sustainable energy
distributed energy storage
cost-effective community
energy saving
impact of energy on economic and social sustainability

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Exploring the User Adoption Mechanism of Green Transportation Services in the Context of the Electricity–Carbon Market Synergy

by Dong Pan, Bao Wang, Jun Li and Fei Wu

Energies 2024, 17(1), 274; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17010274 - 4 Jan 2024

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Promoting green transportation development in the context of electric–carbon market synergy can help promote sustainable transport and tackle climate change. The sharing economy has given rise to innovative and successful business models in recent years. To occupy current and potential markets, many enterprises that participate in sharing economy activities have engaged in a fiercely competitive environment. It is an important way for enterprises to generate profits and improve competitiveness by encouraging consumers’ continuous consumption or stimulating repurchase intentions. This study investigates the effects of consumer satisfaction on consumer repurchase intention (CRI) and how such effects are moderated by the consumer’s risk perception and sustainability awareness in the case of ride-sharing services, which are viewed as a mode of green transportation service. The results of a survey of 358 Chinese consumers who have used ride-sharing services suggest that transaction-based and experience-based satisfaction have positive and significant effects on the CRI of ride-sharing services. Moreover, the results indicate that consumer risk perception negatively moderates the relationships between satisfaction and CRI, while consumer sustainability awareness plays different roles depending on the type of satisfaction (transaction-based versus experience-based). Finally, implications and suggestions for future studies are discussed. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Carbon–Electricity Market, Energy Sharing and Consumptions for Communities)

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The Influence of Internet Celebrities’ Expertise and Attraction on Residents’ Intention to Purchase Household Energy-Saving Products in the Context of an Online Community

by Biao Luo, Mengzhen Nie and Hongmei Ji

Energies 2023, 16(8), 3332; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16083332 - 9 Apr 2023

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In the past few years, internet celebrities have become a new and important way to get people to buy energy-saving products. Their psychological mechanisms for promoting fans’ intention to purchase have become the focus of academic attention, but a unified conclusion has yet to be reached. This study uses online communities as a scenario, with the characteristics of influencers’ expertise, social attraction, and task attraction as antecedent variables and social cognitive theory and parasocial interaction theory as the theoretical basis to explore their influence on fans’ intention to purchase household energy-saving products. The study investigates the mediating role of parasocial relationships and the moderating role of fans’ green self-efficacy in influencing internet celebrities’ expertise and attraction of fans’ parasocial relationships. The results showed that the parasocial relationships formed between fans and influencers mediated the relationship between the expertise and attraction of influencers and fans’ intention to purchase energy-saving products and that “green self-efficacy” positively moderated the parasocial relationships formed between fans and internet celebrities in terms of their expertise and task attraction. The moderating effect of “green self-efficacy” on the parasocial relationships between fans and internet celebrities was insignificant. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Carbon–Electricity Market, Energy Sharing and Consumptions for Communities)

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