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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

4

Operation

An operational energy community maintains and may improve its activities

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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
  • Municipality
  • Political & legal
  • Staff & organisation
  • Technical
Europe

SCCALE Methodology Guide

A guide to support starting energy communities and help them get through the very first stages of community development. It clearly identifies the key steps starters have to reach in order to mature their business.

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

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