doi:10.3390/app10196869engGimeno, J.Á.Llera-Sastresa, E.Scarpellini, S.A heuristic approach to the decision-making process of energy prosumers in a circular economyART-2020-120709Renewable distributed energy and self-consumption are promising and sustainable solutions in the energy-transition scenario for moving toward a circular economy. In this future scheme, prosumers are expected to play a leading role in the forthcoming sustainable energy market, facing new technical, economic, and financial challenges as energy producers at a small scale. In fact, the adoption of photovoltaic (PV) self-consumption systems requires mobilizing capital for investment and their interaction with the market. In this scenario, the aim of this paper was to explore insights into the decision-making process of prosumers to enhance the understanding of self-consumption deployment and to support effective policymaking. This study contributes to the state of the art by defining and classifying determinants of the energy prosumers’ decision-making process and their relevance using a heuristic approach. Potential measuring tools and methods are analyzed through a specific case study of Spanish prosumers.2020http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/9612910.3390/app10196869http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/96129oai:zaguan.unizar.es:96129info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/S33-20Rinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/T46-20RAPPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 10, 19 (2020), 6869 [12 pp]byhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess