Permanent record · RIR–103
What makes community-owned batteries survive beyond the pilot?
Many community energy trials end when grant funding does. This project would compare the governance, tariff and maintenance choices behind systems that remain useful five years later.
Which ownership and maintenance arrangements best predict the long-term viability of community battery projects?
Knowledge gap
What remains worth asking
Technical evaluations dominate the literature while long-term institutional arrangements remain weakly compared.
Potential contribution
Why it may matter
Understanding durable ownership models could improve public and donor investment in distributed energy.
Academic placement
OECD fields and topic tags
Scope: Low- and middle-income countries · Method signals: Comparative case study, Institutional analysis
Possible study pathways
One question, different levels
Compare the operating models of two community battery projects.
Develop an institutional viability framework from multiple cases.
Test a new governance model longitudinally across countries.
Qualification signal
88/100
- Explicit future-research recommendation
- Strong applied contribution
- Access to mature projects may be difficult
Provenance
Research Idea Registry curation
- Submitted through a verified account
- No external scholarly source is claimed