Community renewable energy (CRE) represents a growing empirical and academic turn towards community‐based sustainability and climate change interventions. This paper brings together postcolonial theory and CRE for the first time to outline fundamental tensions in the conceptualisation and application of the idea of community. The understanding of community within the CRE discourse is largely: (1) location‐based; and/or (2) a community of choice that is consciously opted into. Driven by postcolonial theory, this paper counterpoises both as a form of community as contract against an idea of community as solidarity. Its central thesis is that actually existing community, contrary to how the bulk of CRE literature commonly understands it, is a combination of bonds of solidarity and emergent purposes. The paper conceptualises community as fluid bonds of solidarity that align and realign differently around different purposes.

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后殖民社会对能源的批判：在印度和苏格兰寻求社区团结

社区可再生能源（CRE）代表着越来越多的经验和学术转向基于社区的可持续性和气候变化干预措施。本文首次将后殖民理论与CRE结合在一起，概述了社区概念的概念化和应用中的基本矛盾。CRE话语中对社区的理解主要是：（1）基于位置；和/或（2）有意识地选择加入的选择社区。通过后殖民理论的推动下，本文counterpoises既作为一种形式社会契约反对的想法社会团结。它的中心论点是，与大多数CRE文献通常对它的理解相反，实际上存在的社区是团结和紧急目的的结合。本文将社区概念化为团结一致的流动纽带，它们围绕不同的目的进行不同的对齐和重新排列。