Walking the Walk: A Memo Outlining Incentives for Women-Powered Energy Storage in the European Union

Published on February 1, 2021

Why should "prosumers" - individuals who make electricity for others to purchase- encounter brakes on their output in European Union policy? In this memo, which the author wrote first in the Financing and Deploying Clean Energy program, the case emerges for releasing female prosumers' entrepreneurial energy. A linked interview with a leading prosumer shows what the ideas here can unleash.

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