Correction: Kamin et al. Barriers to the Diffusion of Clean Energy Communities: Comparing Early Adopters and the General Public. Energies 2025, 18, 2248

Kamin, Tanja; Golob, Urša; Kogovšek, Tina

doi:10.3390/en19102431

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Correction: Kamin et al. Barriers to the Diffusion of Clean Energy Communities: Comparing Early Adopters and the General Public. Energies 2025, 18, 2248

by

Tanja Kamin

,

Urša Golob

^*

and

Tina Kogovšek

Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

^*

Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Energies 2026, 19(10), 2431; https://doi.org/10.3390/en19102431

Submission received: 15 April 2026 / Accepted: 29 April 2026 / Published: 19 May 2026

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In the original publication [1], inaccuracies were present in the reference list. These occurred during the final stages of manuscript preparation, when the original APA-formatted references were converted to the journal’s citation style. To save time on formatting, a generative AI tool was used specifically to convert existing APA-formatted references into the numerical style preferred by Energies. Unfortunately, during this conversion process, the tool produced several incorrect titles and publication details, although the first author and publication year remained correct. As a result, some references appeared legitimate at first glance but did not accurately correspond to the original publications.

The scientific content of the article and the sources on which the analysis is based remain unchanged. The reference list has now been carefully reviewed, manually verified, and corrected in accordance with the journal’s guidelines. References 15 and 25 have been removed due to duplication, and all subsequent references have been renumbered and updated in the text. A typo in reference 2 has also been revised. The authors state that the scientific conclusions are unaffected. This correction was approved by the Academic Editor. The original publication has also been updated.

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Kamin, T.; Golob, U.; Kogovšek, T. Barriers to the Diffusion of Clean Energy Communities: Comparing Early Adopters and the General Public. Energies 2025, 18, 2248. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]

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