Energy Communities in the Directives of the Clean Energy for All Europeans Package
The paper concerns citizens energy communities (CECs) and renewable energy communities (RECc) within EU. It presents the regulator’s goals and the ideas that stand behind energy communities. It also discusses an energy community model which merges form EU directives and gives assumptions regarding regulatory frameworks that Member States have to put in place. It pays attention to the principle of providing a level playing field for energy communities. The author shows the challenges facing by Polish regulations and wonders whether it will be necessary to change the Polish energy model completely, because it is focused on profit-making undertakings.