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Operation

The maintenance stage aims to put in place processes to sustain and improve the functioning of the energy community.
This includes the day-to-day operations of the community, revenue management, the consolidation of entrepreneurial skillsets in the leadership team on the operational side, and setting more ambitious goals if the original goals are achieved. With regards to the membership base, particular attention is paid to revising the rules for decision-making where needed, refining the shared vision, and identifying and implementing ways to actively involve members in the management of the community.

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Europe

Energy Solidarity Toolkit

A toolkit packed with information on how energy communities can build solidarity measures into their core activities. It includes tips and insights from energy communities already tacking energy poverty.

  • Inspiration
  • Preparation
  • Implementation
  • Operation
  • Community
  • Financial
  • Political & legal
  • Staff & organisation
Community Energy Guide cover picture
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

ACCE Regulatory framework analysis

In the context of the ACCE project, this report provides an overview of the legal framework surrounding Community Energy Financing Schemes (CEFS) in Europe.

  • Preparation
  • Implementation
  • Operation
  • Financial
  • Political & legal
Europe

ACCE financial handbook: a guide and several business cases

Under the ACCE project, this guide identifies the main barriers to establishing a Community Energy Financing Scheme (CEFS) and outlines solutions to overcome them.

  • Preparation
  • Implementation
  • Operation
  • Financial
Europe

Guidelines on community-led heating and cooling

These guidelines offer a non-exhaustive introduction into the world of community-led heating and cooling, including explanations of what it is and how it works, and giving advice on how to replicate successful examples.

  • Inspiration
  • Preparation
  • Implementation
  • Operation
  • Community
  • Financial
  • Political & legal
  • Staff & organisation
  • Technical
Procurement guide cover
Europe

Procurement guide for community energy

A guide that presents different options in which municipalities may be able to adapt their public procurement processes to better support energy communities.

  • Implementation
  • Operation
  • Financial
  • Municipality
  • Political & legal
Digital tools guide illustration
Europe

Digital tools for energy communities – a short guide

A guide that identifies and shortlists practical examples of digital solutions for energy communities in different scopes of application.

  • Preparation
  • Implementation
  • Operation
  • Staff & organisation
  • Technical
Europe

SCCALE 20 30 50 inclusivity guide for energy communities

A guide that offers tools and tips for increasing the inclusivity of your energy community.

  • Preparation
  • Implementation
  • Operation
  • Community
  • Staff & organisation
Europe

ACCE Best practice report on Community Energy Financing Schemes

This report analyses success factors and barriers encountered by leading Community Energy Financing Schemes (CEFS). It is an output of the ACCE project.

  • Inspiration
  • Preparation
  • Implementation
  • Operation
  • Financial
Europe

Match-making tool

A tool that helps energy communities and asset owners to come together in order to create new clean energy projects.

  • Preparation
  • Implementation
  • Operation
  • Municipality
  • Political & legal
  • Technical
Europe

Energy citizenship empowerment kit [English]

A free, gamified tool that triggers and guides discussion about barriers to participation in energy communities.

  • Preparation
  • Implementation
  • Operation
  • Community
  • Staff & organisation
Europe Greece

Greek Islands’ Energy Transition: From Lighthouse Projects to the Emergence of Energy Communities

The energy transition represents both challenges and opportunities for sustainable social and economic development. This report analyses the case of Greek islands sharing the evolution from lighthouse examples to the emergence of energy communities.

  • Inspiration
  • Preparation
  • Implementation
  • Operation
  • Community

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