Energy self-sufficiency

Local energy

18/01/2024

Over the last two years, the European Commission’s Energy Community Repository has been supporting energy communities through a range of activities and tools. Discover all […]

News

EU Energy Communities: Opportunities and Future Prospects

Local energy

Energy efficiency & Buildings

22/11/2023

Energy communities are one of the key elements in achieving the EU’s energy transition: By 2050, half of Europe’s citizens could be producing up to […]

News

Join a unique capacity-building programme on innovative financing!

H2020 PROSPECT+ is launching its third call for applications. Don’t miss the opportunity!

Mobility

Finance & Divest

Renewables

Tools & Capacity building

Fossil-free cities

24/03/2023

Would you like to explore new ways of financing your energy and climate measures? Would you like to learn about energy performance contracting, municipal green […]

News

How do you FEEL about sufficiency?

Energy Cities' FEEL project will help local authorities to adopt sufficiency

Sufficiency

Low-tech

16/03/2023

Energy Cities has developed a new project to translate sufficiency at a local level: Frugal cities through Energy Efficiency and Low-tech communities (FEEL). FEEL has […]

News

Launch of the EU Energy Communities Map

Whether you are looking for an overview of Europe's energy communities, willing to discover the energy communities around you, or part of an energy community yourself... This map is for you!

Participative governance

30/01/2023

The European Commission’s Energy Community Repository has just launched its interactive map of energy communities in Europe. Based on an inventory created by the EU-funded […]

Webinar recordings

Ecological transition and jobs: accelerating green local economies

Looking back on the latest webinar of the Sufficient Cities series

08/11/2022

On November 8th, Energy Cities welcomed Eddy Adams, URBACT Programme Level Expert, UIA Expert and Social Innovation Exchange (SIX) Adviser, and Hayat Boaira, Director of the Zero […]

News

What is the magic recipe for quality & resource-wise public services?

Local representatives share their thoughts on the structural reduction of energy demand in public buildings

04/11/2022

At an event organised by Energy Cities and Grenoble Alpes Metropolis on 18 October, as part of our Hubs Fossil-free cities and Fair economies’ programmes, […]

News

A new space for experienced and aspiring community energy enthusiasts to learn from one another

Launch of a Helpdesk for members of established and incipient energy communities to exchange knowledge

Energy democracy

Solar energy

Tools & Capacity building

24/10/2022

This September, experts and aspiring leaders of energy communities from across Europe met in Paris for the first of many exchanges. The diverse and international […]

News

What you need (to boost your community energy project), do you know we’ve got it?*

The EU's Energy Communities Repository has a diversified technical assistance scheme for you

Energy democracy

Citizen engagement

Local energy

19/10/2022

Support from experts, national capacity-building activities, peer-learning… The Energy Communities Repository, funded by the European Commission, offers support to energy communities regardless of their development […]

Webinar recordings

How do we make sufficiency desirable?

Interview with Mathieu Saujot