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The ECCO One stop shop is the energy community accelerator Network

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The ECCO project aims to accelerate the growth of local Energy Community Co-operatives (ECCOs) both in effectiveness and in numbers by bringing them together and facilitating effective knowledge-sharing mechanisms to speed up the Renewable Energy transition. The project is funded by the Interreg North-West Europe programme with project partners from Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, France, Germany and the UK. Read More

A new platform gathers tools and resources to help energy communities move forward

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There are many useful tools and resources on the internet to help citizens set up an energy community, but these are scattered across many different websites. Following the work done a few years ago by Munster Technological University, REScoop.eu has joined forces with several EU projects to make things easier and bring all resources together in one single place: the Energy Community Platform. This new website aims to provide citizens with all support they need to move forward with their energy community projects. Read More

Farmers, engine in the transition!

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Local energy communities turn out to be one promising strategy for the energy transition in municipalities in rural areas. Farmers can play a key role in this. In the framework of the Interreg NWE project we'll tell you more about ECCO. Halnet and Landscape Energy are two energy cooperatives of farmers and citizens who not only produce green energy and sharing, but also creating added value for it landscape, bio-diversity and carbon sequestration. Read More

Guide: Citizen energy, a practical guide to energy democracy

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This guide contains information from 29 projects from all over Europe, including stories from the 'beacon eccos' of the ecco project. It is a collection of practical tips, instructions, inspiring success stories and invaluable resources for creating a local energy revolution from within your community. Citizen energy is essential to face the climate crisis. At the same time, it boosts the local economy, revitalizes communities, and helps local governments to make solid plans for the future. So it is a handbook for everyone. Read More

ECCO Entrepreneurship Conference - 6 December 2021

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Session 1: ECCO-entrepreneurship -WATTELCE methodology - A methodology focused on modelling the activity of an umbrella organisation for citizen energy projects (Florian Guillotte, 7 Vents cooperative) -Digital tools to manage energy communities CoopHub: (Eric BUREAU, Energie Partagée ) ECONOBIS: (Rene van Vliet, Econobis) Session 2: Community-based virtual power plants: -The ECCO Pilote case of the ELFE project (Nicolas Desruelles, EPV, France Brittany) -The ECCO Pilote case of LochemEnergie :Energy trading between households: An example from the Netherlands (Tonnie Tekelenburg, LochemEnergie and Albert van der Meer, Hanzebox) Read More

The Green Transition and Community Participation – The Hidden Benefits

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This session was attended by some 50 participants from all over Europe. Local communities of citizens who jointly invest in renewable energy projects contribute to the green transition by producing more green energy and thus contributing to more reduction of CO2 emissions. These are the obvious benefits of citizen energy and citizen participation in the energy transition. In this session, the Interreg NWE project ECCO focuses on the hidden benefits and gains of citizen participation in energy transition in both rural and urban settings. This was explained to the participants by means of 5 short videos of examples from ECCO. Read More