energies Article Autonomous Energy Regions as a Proposed Choice of Selecting Selected EU Regions—Aspects of Their Creation and Management Piotr Ma´sloch 1 , Grzegorz Ma´sloch 2 , Łukasz Ku´zmi´nski 3, Henryk Wojtaszek 1,* and Ireneusz Miciuła 4 1 Management Institute Management and Command Department, War Studies University, 00-910 Warsaw, Poland;
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[email protected] Received: 21 October 2020; Accepted: 30 November 2020; Published: 6 December 2020 Abstract: There is a high demand for energy production, which is dependent on energy consumption and input. This demand affects socioeconomic development and quality of life. However, the lack of an innovative formal, legal, and organizational structure regarding public space in the European Union (EU) is problematic; one solution could be preparing and implementing grid services as part of distributed energy solutions (based on local and regional renewable resources), and involving local public, private, and profitable entities. Autonomous energy regions (AREs) are a response to this type of problem, as they can contribute to the creation of organizational and legal tools that counteract the marginalization of crisis areas, where undesirable socioeconomic phenomena intensify (and the conditions and management of the natural environments deteriorate).