Business models of energy cooperatives active in the PV sector—A statistical analysis for Germany

• August Wierling,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Environmental Sciences, HVL, Campus Sogndal, postboks 133, 6851 Sogndal, Norway

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Sogndal, Vestlandet, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7443-7593

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• Jan Pedro Zeiss,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Environmental Sciences, HVL, Campus Sogndal, postboks 133, 6851 Sogndal, Norway

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Sogndal, Vestlandet, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8016-929X

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• Constantin von Beck ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: covb@hvl.no

  Current address: Department of Environmental Sciences, HVL, Campus Sogndal, postboks 133, 6851 Sogndal, Norway

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Sogndal, Vestlandet, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9134-3356

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• Valeria Jana Schwanitz

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Environmental Sciences, HVL, Campus Sogndal, postboks 133, 6851 Sogndal, Norway

  Affiliations Department of Environmental Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Sogndal, Vestlandet, Norway, The Schumacher Institute, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8752-2754

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