Crash course 5: Energy market roles

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There are a lot of organisations and companies active in the electricity market and they can play
multiple different roles. The roles citizens play in the energy system are changing. For a long time they acted as passive consumers who buy energy from energy suppliers. Now they can play more active roles, individually or collectively in energy communities.

This crash course discusses the diverse roles in the current and future electricity market and explains which roles can potentially be adopted by energy communities.

The crash course is the fifth module of a series of crash courses created by the cVPP project. The other available modules are:

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