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Our growing collection of go-to guides, best practices, technical documents, online tools and much more will help you move forward with your community energy project at any development stage. Filter them by different criteria or explore the full selection for each development stage of an energy community.

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Inspiration

A core group of people starts shaping an idea and vision of a project
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Preparation

A core group of people prepares the community energy project
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Implementation

A community energy project is formally launched and becomes a reality
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Operation

An operational energy community maintains and may improve its activities
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Europe

Financing guide for energy communities

This guide provides a very first introduction to community energy financing. To make it easy to read and hands-on, it includes 14 practical and recent financing stories of European energy communities.

  • Inspiration
  • Preparation
  • Financial
We the Power poster
Europe

We the Power | The Future of Energy is Community-Owned

An inspiring movie about the citizen-led community energy movement in Europe.

  • Inspiration
  • Preparation
  • Community
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Europe

Community Energy: A practical guide to reclaiming power [English]

Handbook packed with instructions, practical tips, powerful success stories and invaluable resources to build a local, community-led renewable energy revolution.

  • Inspiration
  • Preparation
  • Implementation
  • Operation
  • Community
  • Financial
  • Political & legal
  • Staff & organisation
  • Technical

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