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REScoop.eu welcomes four new members and two new supporters
REScoop.eu is delighted to welcome four new members and two new supporters to its network! By growing our network, we can further amplify the voices of citizens and their communities in the energy sector. Meet our new members - Balbriggan Sustainable Energy Community (Ireland), GeReGie (Austria), Alliance of Energy Communities Hungary (Hungary) and Institute for the Support of Solidarity-based RECs (Austria) - and our new supporters - MOME (Portugal) and Friends of the Earth Cyprus (Cyprus).
Balbriggan Sustainable Energy Community
Balbriggan Sustainable Energy Community (Balbriggan SEC) is a not-for-profit Irish organisation that supports community groups to improve energy efficiency and utilise renewable energy grants. The energy community is developing a small-scale renewable energy project and aims to make the Balbriggan town more energy efficient and resilient.
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GeReGie
GeReGie is an Austrian cooperative involved in financing, operating, and advising on renewable energy installations for members and third parties. The cooperative is also active in renewable energy production and supply, and is the provider of the community energy financing scheme “SonnenTeil” for joint investments of cooperative members.
Alliance of Energy Communities Hungary
The Alliance of Energy Communities Hungary is a national platform representing and supporting citizen-led energy communities. Their primary focus is on policy advocacy and ecosystem building to create a supportive regulatory, financial, and institutional environment for energy communities in Hungary. Additionally, the alliance promotes citizen participation in the energy transition, strengthens collaboration between communities, municipalities, experts, and civil society actors, and ensures that energy communities can operate as recognised and impactful actors in the energy system.
Institute for the Support of Solidarity-based RECs
The Institute for the Support of Solidarity-based RECs is an Austrian non-profit organisation that aims to provide ecological, economic and social community benefits to its members and to the local areas in which it operates. The institute's main activities focus on the development, promotion, implementation and operation of solidarity-based renewable energy communities. A core element of their work is the shared use of locally produced renewable energy within energy communities, based on fair, transparent and solidarity-based models.
MOME
MOME is a B Corp-certified residential development platform specialising in the technical and financial enablement of cooperative housing. MOME develops each project from land acquisition to delivery and integrates energy cooperatives. MOME's flagship initiative is COLETIVA - Portugal's first cost-rental cooperative housing platform, delivering 400 homes at €600/month in the Porto Metropolitan Area with governance transferred to cooperative members.
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Friends of the Earth Cyprus
Friends of the Earth Cyprus is a non-profit organisation that aims to unlock energy democracy and citizen participation in Cyprus. The organisation's main activities include advocacy and campaigns on climate justice and energy, sustainable mobility, as well as environmental education, community organising and volunteer engagement. Friends of the Earth Cyprus is also working on research, capacity building, and community support.
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