Policy tracker

Introduction

REScoop.eu’s policy tracker serves as a central hub for monitoring the legal and financial landscape of energy communities across Europe. This comprehensive tracker provides a country-by-country analysis of how EU Member States are implementing different energy community legislation and funding programs. This tracker also offers a holistic assessment of the enabling frameworks in each Member State. It is designed to help policymakers, energy communities, and advocates navigate the complexities of the different legislative files on energy communities, identify best practices, and track progress.

Traffic light assesment

Each Member State will receive a traffic-light score for each assessment and for every criterion examined within those assessments. A Member State’s overall score is calculated as a weighted average of three components: definition, enabling framework, and financing mechanism, with a higher weight assigned to the enabling framework.

The financing-mechanism score is calculated as a weighted average of the Social Climate Fund, other EU funds, national funds, and support schemes. National funds and support schemes receive a higher weight (40%).

Important note:

  • For the overall average, the enabling framework is treated as a major enabler: if a Member State is rated "good" on the enabling framework, its overall score will be "good."
  • For the financing-mechanism score, support schemes are treated as a major enabler: if a Member State is rated "good" on support schemes, the financing-mechanism score will be "good."

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How to use this tracker

This energy communities policy tracker provides an overall comparative assessment of progress across different European Member States regarding the following components:

  1. the transposition of the REC and CEC definitions;
  2. the creation of an enabling framework for energy communities; and
  3. the funding landscape for energy communities.

Following a traffic light grading system, each Member State is assigned a specific color to represent its progress toward each of these components. Each Member State’s overall grade is informed by a qualitative assessment based on a set of indicators representing the elements required to:

  1. properly transpose provisions on definitions for RECs and CECs;
  2. set up an enabling framework for energy communities; and
  3. put in place a supportive funding landscape for energy communities.

By clicking on a specific country, you will find an overall descriptive assessment of the national legislation, as well as a table providing a concise but detailed assessment of each indicator. The sources used for the assessment of progress in each country are publicly available legislative texts, including both final and draft versions.

The map has been color-coded based on three tiers - bad, average, and good - providing an incremental quality stamp of the progress made for each element.

Methodology

The methodology underpinning the present research consisted of the following four steps:

  1. Creation of the subset of the sub-criteria, on which the qualitative analytical framework for each of the sub-trackers (definitions, enabling frameworks, finance) was based.
  2. In-depth analysis, by REScoop.eu members and national campaigners, of all the publicised materials regarding national legislation
  3. Interviews and discussions with Managing Authorities and other relevant stakeholders from different Member States to complement the research inputs from Step 2.
  4. Iterative feedback on the collated material from the involved members and campaigners, as well as additional stakeholders.
Updates to the tracker

Last updated: February 2026.

This energy communities policy tracker will be frequently updated with the new developments in the national implementation of EU legislation. In order to do so, your help is highly appreciated. In case you have additional information on the progress of the transposition in your country or you have comments/corrections on the existing information, please contact directly: jonathan.bonadio@rescoop.eu.

The financing components of the Policy Tracker will be frequently updated with new developments in the EU and national funding landscape for energy communities. In case you have additional information on available funding opportunities, or you have comments/corrections on the existing information, please contact directly chris.vrettos@rescoop.eu.