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The ITRE Committee’s vote on the New Market Design Legislation

Policy paper

Energy communities (i.e. renewable energy communities, or REScoops) have the potential to place citizens in the driver seat of Europe’s energy transition w

The European Parliament’s vote on the Clean Energy Package

Policy paper

REScoop.eu is committed to seeing that the EU’s Clean energy for all Europeans package provides a fair deal for consumers as ‘energy citizens’, and ensures

The ITRE vote on the Renewables Directive

Policy paper

The amendments of the new Renewables Directive are currently discussed by the members of the ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) Committee. ITRE members a

Q&A - Lessons from the German onshore wind tender results

Policy paper

In Germany, an experiment is under way to move towards tenders for new renewable energy capacity while also trying to maintain citizen participation, which

REScoop.eu Response to CEER’s White Paper on Renewable Self-Consumers and Energy Communities

Policy paper

CEER’s recently published White Paper provides much insight into how active customers, renewables self-consumers, renewable energy communities (RECs), and

Response to Karin's Draft report on Market Design Initiative

Policy paper

The ‘Clean Energy for All Europeans’ Package presents an opportunity to provide citizens and communities with a supportive framework to participate across

Engaging citizens for an energy sober Europe with the REScoops

Policy paper

The European Commission’s proposal of its “Clean Energy for All Europeans” Package and its acknowledgement of renewable and local energy communities provides one more step towards empowering citizens to take more responsibility over their energy supply and their consumption. However, in order to promote energy efficiency first through energy communities, the package needs to better recognize the important role that REScoops play in encouraging and empowering behavioural change by citizens in how they use energy, including energy savings.

Energy communities and the Market Design Initiative

Policy paper

The ‘Clean Energy for All Europeans’ Package represents a unique opportunity to provide citizens and communities with acknowledgment, as well as a supporti

The benefits of community ownership of renewable energy

Brochure

On the 30th of November 2016 the European Commission published the Energy Package that calls itself a Clean Energy Package for all Europeans. As part of th

Energy communities: a way to bring all Europeans along in the energy transition

Report

Regardless of income or home ownership, all citizens should be able to benefit from participating in the energy transition. The ability to invest in energy

Engaging citizens for an energy sober Europe with the REScoops

Policy paper

The European Commission’s proposal of its “Clean Energy for All Europeans” Package and its acknowledgment of renewable and local energy communities provide

Energy communities and the Renewable Energy Directive

Policy paper

Currently, EU legislation does not mention community participation in the energy sector. Even so, community energy has existed for decades, and there is in