The specificity of the financialization of energy communities in peripheral countries

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Angélica Hernández

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Energy communities are groups of people who, for various reasons, have decided to get involved in the process of organizing and managing a project whose purpose is to carry out activities that generically correspond to the energy sector. This document is an exploratory effort to identify the features of the energy communities that emerge from Latin American countries and their link with financialization, considering that these, since their peripheral condition, have specificities that are expressed in the configuration of business models that whether be beneficial for the places where this kind of energy projects emerged. Based on this consideration, some reflections are presented about the type of communities identified in the Latin American context and how they can offer a niche for the dynamics of financialization observed in recent years.

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Hernández, A. (2025). The specificity of the financialization of energy communities in peripheral countries. Ola Financiera, 18(50), 73–90. https://doi.org/10.22201/fe.18701442e.2025.50.93648

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