LIFE-2024-CET-ENERCOM: Developing support mechanisms for Energy Communities

Community-owned projects can allow citizens to finance sustainable energy investments that deliver local economic benefits, social cohesion, or address other priorities such as improving the energy efficiency of housing or reducing energy poverty.The EU Solar Strategy defined the target of setting up at least one renewables-based Energy Community in every municipality with more than 10,000 inhabitants by 2025.Developing and realising projects can be complex for energy communities due to the regulatory and policy context and for relatively small and citizen-led actors like energy communities, there [...]