Community Renewable Energy (CRE) is a central concept of current political agendas aimed at fostering a sustainable energy transition that can be linked to the development of rural areas. To design effective policies and strategies to promote the development of rural CRE, the diverse conditioning factors of the decision to invest in CRE projects should be analyzed. However, to the best of our knowledge, little research has examined this issue and no study has explicitly focused on rural “bioenergy village” projects under a quantitative research design. Moreover, although past research on the decision to invest in CRE has acknowledged the importance of the influence of alternative cognitive factors, the financial determinants of that decision have been somewhat disregarded. Furthermore, the complex and heterogeneous nature of human behavior has not been directly addressed through appropriate methodological frameworks. Applying a fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to the responses obtained through a survey on the decision to invest in a hypothetical small bioenergy village project, we analyze a varied set of propositions related to the role of different sociodemographic, sociopsychological, and financial features as antecedents and outcomes. Results reveal the diverse configurations of all these factors that policy makers, promoters of CRE projects, and researchers should consider to effectively contribute to the development of CRE in rural settings.

社区可再生能源 (CRE) 是当前政治议程的核心概念，旨在促进与农村地区发展相关的可持续能源转型。为了设计有效的政策和策略来促进农村商业地产的发展，应该分析决定投资商业地产项目的各种条件因素。然而，据我们所知，很少有研究探讨这个问题，也没有研究在定量研究设计下明确关注农村“生物能源村”项目。此外，虽然过去对投资于 CRE 的决定的研究已经承认替代认知因素影响的重要性，但该决定的财务决定因素在某种程度上被忽视了。此外，人类行为的复杂性和异质性尚未通过适当的方法框架直接解决。将模糊集定性比较分析 (fsQCA) 应用于通过对投资假设的小型生物能源村项目的决定进行的调查获得的答复，我们分析了与不同社会人口学、社会心理学和金融学的作用相关的一系列命题特征作为前因和结果。结果揭示了所有这些因素的不同配置，政策制定者、CRE 项目的推动者和研究人员应该考虑有效地促进农村地区 CRE 的发展。将模糊集定性比较分析 (fsQCA) 应用于通过对投资假设的小型生物能源村项目的决定进行的调查获得的答复，我们分析了与不同社会人口学、社会心理学和金融学的作用相关的一系列命题特征作为前因和结果。结果揭示了所有这些因素的不同配置，政策制定者、CRE 项目的推动者和研究人员应该考虑有效地促进农村地区 CRE 的发展。将模糊集定性比较分析 (fsQCA) 应用于通过对投资假设的小型生物能源村项目的决定进行的调查获得的答复，我们分析了与不同社会人口学、社会心理学和金融学的作用相关的一系列命题特征作为前因和结果。结果揭示了所有这些因素的不同配置，政策制定者、CRE 项目的推动者和研究人员应该考虑有效地促进农村地区 CRE 的发展。