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Procurement guide for community energy

Book

Municipalities are key actors in empowering citizens in the energy transition and the development of energy communities across Europe. Local authorities ha

How can the State aid guidelines help energy communities address the energy crisis?

Policy paper

Europe's Green Deal aims to put citizens at the heart of the energy transition by ensuring fairness and inclusiveness. This follows the Clean Energy for Al

Enabling frameworks for Renewable Energy Communities: report on good practices

Policy paper

A lot has happened since the adoption of the RED II five years (half a decade) ago. The transposition deadline has come and gone, and Europe now finds itse

Model Assessment template

Policy paper

The Model Assessment is meant to be a tool to help national actors – mainly public authorities and civil society organisations – better assess potential fo

Cohesion programming for energy communities – a long road ahead

Policy paper

The past year, REScoop.eu and CEE Bankwatch Network have been collaborating on a research project dedicated to analyzing cohesion policy programs as it rel

Gender survey of energy cooperatives - A summary with recommendations

Report

This paper aims to understand the status quo of gender, structure, perceptions, needs and integration of gender and women in energy communities.

The RED revision: How to maximise the potential for communities to contribute to local renewables production

Policy paper

The current Renewable Energy Directive 2018/2001/EU (RED II) entered into force in December 2018, as part of the Clean Energy Package (CEP) introducing leg

The EED Trilogues: How to support the role of energy communities in energy savings

Policy paper

When it proposed a recast of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), the European Commission (Commission) recognized that to achieve increased ambition on e

Designing a Social Climate Fund true to its name

Policy paper

The Social Climate Fund (SCF or the Fund) is considered a promising tool to fill the existing gap for financing structural and proactive solutions for clim

Report on European legal and regulatory issues related to energy communities and energy poverty

Policy paper

The potential for energy communities (ECs) to play a larger role in more distributed and more just clean energy systems is gaining attention. But does curr

Best Practice Guide for Southeast Europe

Report

In this guidebook, The European Citizen Energy Academy (EUCENA) project has compiled examples of inspiring community energy initiatives in the Balkan region, where people take action to improve their conditions and the wellbeing of their communities.

A brand new step-by-step guide to public procurement and municipal support for energy communities

Report

The "municipal guide" is a new step-by-step guide, written and published in the context of the COMPILE project that collects and analyses the support mecha