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This project will be conducted under the auspices of the Global Observatory on Peer-to-Peer, Community Self-Consumption and Transactive Energy (P2P/CSC/TE) Models of the Users TCP by International Energy Agency (IEA). The Observatory is an international forum for understanding the policy, regulatory, social and technological conditions necessary to support the wider deployment of P2P/CSC/TE models. The work of the Observatory is divided across five sub-tasks relating to different aspects of these models (grid physics; ICT and data; markets and transactions; economic and social value; policy and regulation). In order to identify the common critical success factors of these different models across sub-tasks and member countries, the Observatory will analyse pilot projects. To determine which projects to include as case studies, a set of selection criteria is required. More fundamentally, definitions and labels of P2P/CSC/TE models differ widely across contexts and there is no universally accepted definition for this class of models. This project aims to fill this research gap and provide a conceptual understanding of the characteristics of these models. The project will answer the following research question in the form of a concept definition paper: What are the key distinguishing features of energy systems labelled as Peer-to-Peer, Community/Collective Self-Consumption and Transactive Energy as outlined in the literature and by stakeholders? Findings of this project will form the basis for selection criteria for pilot projects studied under the Observatory.