Meet the new REScoop.eu Board of Directors

Every four years, REScoop.eu members elect a Board of Directors, which is responsible for guiding the federation's overall management and strategic direction. On 22 May, at its General Meeting in Krakow, Poland, REScoop.eu members elected a new Board of Directors for the 2025–2029 term, consisting of eight member organisations.

Each of these organisations has two representatives on the board, of whom at least one should identify as a woman.

Last week, during its first meeting after the election, the new board assigned its key roles as it follows:

President: Mark Luntley (Energy4All, United Kingdom)

Mark Luntley is a qualified accountant who previously worked as a local government finance director in the United Kingdom. Since 2008, he has focused on creating community-owned renewable energy projects. Mark joined the board which oversaw the construction of Westmill Windfarm in 2008 and currently chairs that co-operative. He helped found the Westmill Solar Co-operative in 2011, and joined the board of Energy4All in 2013 to represent the voices of its 35 member co-operatives. Mark joined the REScoop.eu board in 2017 and has previously been the board lead on financial issues.  

Vice-president: Ilonka Marselis (Energie Samen, Netherlands)

Ilonka Marselis is advocacy coordinator and strategic advisor at Energie Samen, the Dutch federation of energy communities, which represents over 700 energy communities in the Netherlands. In her work, Ilonka focuses on community district heating and cooling, as well as energy-efficiency projects. In previous functions, Ilonka was policy advisor for the heat-transition at the Dutch Federation of Municipalities (VNG), and action-researcher on cooperative district heating at the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT).

Treasurer: Hilde Smets (Ecopower, Belgium)

Hilde Smets has been the finance manager of Ecopower since 2016, and she is also a member of the cooperative’s executive board. Ecopower, founded in Belgium in 1991, is a European pioneer in cooperative energy. Today it has more than 70,000 members and supplies energy to over 60,000 households.

Secretary: Nuri Palmada (Som Energia, Spain)

Nuri Palmada is a founding member of Som Energia. Since the cooperative's inception, she has been actively involved in its renewable energy sources project development team and has served on the rotating collaborative board. She has also dedicated over 20 years to the renewable energy sector as an industrial engineer. Nuri was REScoop.eu's vice-president in the previous term.