ACCU

About

Energy Cities staff involved

Adrian Hiel

EU Policy, Media & Campaigns

Blandine Pidoux

Project Management

Jana Cicmanova

Communications

Funding program

Interreg NWE

Duration

2025 - 2029

Coordinator

City of Arnhem

Partners

Bruges (BE), City of Fourmies, Enedis (FR), OpenRemote (NL), Rijn en IJssel Energie Cooperatie (NL), Technical University Eindhoven (NL), University Picardie Jules Verne (FR), Vivendo (BE)

Website

www.nweurope.eu

Achieving EU’s decarbonisation ambitions requires a transition to a distributed energy system with participation of citizens. Local energy communities (LECs) are an effective means of doing this. LECs are organisations bringing together citizens, businesses and local authorities to collectively own and operate distributed energy resources and services. 

ACCU accelerates the smart and just energy transition in NWE neighbourhoods by setting up 3 Local Energy Communities (LECs) in Arnhem, Bruges and Fourmies. LECs will develop smart energy systems integrating renewable electricity and heat and storing local solar energy.  

ACCU tackles technical, regulatory, social and financial challenges that LECs face. Doing so, ACCU reduces grid impacts, prevents energy poverty and empowers local participation in the energy transition.  

Solutions and training are provided for citizens, housing corporations and authorities for new and better equipped LECs. 

Energy Cities’ role

• Elaborating the “Comparative analysis of regulatory contexts”.
• Project communication
• Capacity building activities including setting up and coordination of the ACCU Learning Community