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RSSThis guide covers the basics of exactly how a company can support the growth of community-energy and provides examples of those that are already doing this work.
In this episode, two “activators” shared valuable insights on community-building and participation as a key enabler to advance the city’s transition towards climate neutrality.
Complementing the publication “Community Energy - A practical guide to reclaiming power”, this guide produced by Energy Cities and REScoop.eu will help you to kick off communication and engagement activities for the development of local community energy projects.
The BECoop self-assessment tool is designed for inexperienced users seeking to assess the current state of a cooperative/community bioenergy project.
The Power of Community is an independent, educational board-game launched in 2020. The game encourages children to tap into their imagination and use their creativity to learn.
This episode includes the experience of residents of the Athens area: Thanos Katsonis works for the local government of Ilioupoli, and Chris Vrettos is driving force of the social cooperative Electra Energy. They are just about to kick-start a community power organisation.
This report includes reflections on various social impacts of community energy groups, analyzed through their respective fields of expertise.
In this episode, two energy experts based in the East of France join us to share their plans for an energy community in the city of Besançon, France.
The PowerAct tool provides you with personalized suggestions for changing your behavior, as well as information on funding programmes for energy efficiency improvements.
POWER FUND is a web-based tool developed by the POWERPOOR project to help energy poor citizens across Europe to identify and learn about Collective Innovative Actions to tackle energy poverty and take direct action.
The aim of this report is to give insights into different existing and emerging approaches for business models for energy communities and collective actions, to group different business model categories of energy communities and collective actions and to provide specific examples.
The guidebook aims at informing relevant stakeholders ranging from interested individuals to municipalities and decision makers on how they can follow the proposed bottom-up collaborative approach in alleviating energy poverty through joint energy initiatives leveraging innovative financing schemes.
This report provides an overview of existing and planned organisational and legal forms and business models of renewable energy communities from across Europe. It further includes information on local conditions, such as regulatory specificities at local and/or national level, available resources an
Based on the collective debate from nine H2020 running projects, several challenges and key lessons learned can be identified for just social engagement.
This paper highlights the different ways in which communities actively participate in energy decision making around the world and harness renewable energy’s potential to deliver economic, social and environmental benefits for a just transition.
State of play inventory of legislation and regulation for clean energy on European islands.
This factsheet provides a concise overview of the potential of renewable energy communities to contribute to renewable energy targets for 2030, in a set of EU countries.
YouGov polling commissioned by the European Climate Foundation has revealed massive public support for new wind and solar power projects.
This document presents Collective Community Engagement Strategies tailored to each of the specific context of pilot communities from Ireland, Spain, Austria, Bulgaria and Germany.
This document describes the mythology to perform economic and energetic feasibility analysis of potential investments in PV for the eCREW participants.