This new report presents the current landscape of these new players, provides context and very concrete best practices from different countries. It puts particular emphasis […]

Can we design energy services that help those people living more decent lives and therefore tackle energy poverty in the long-term? The overview business model by business model aims at helping local and regional authorities navigate through the diversity of options and to design their value proposition for energy services with a social purpose.

To succeed in climate neutrality, we need to accelerate the pace of implementation. The required technologies are mostly there. We see that the bottleneck lies […]

Energy communities find themselves at very different stages of development. Some are informal groups that have just started thinking about setting up an energy community, […]

It’s one thing for a group of citizens to launch their own renewables initiative – and quite many do so. But it’s pretty different to do this with the support of a local government that is serious about local renewable energy.  The most foresighted local and regional authorities look at renewable energy through the community lense. Krizevci in Croatia and Eeklo in Belgium do share that mindset.