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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

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
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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
Europe

Guidelines on community-led heating and cooling

This calculator created by Heizomat allows the user to estimate the total heating costs with a variety of sources.

  • 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

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

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 citizen 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

URBACT toolbox

The URBACT Toolbox has everything you need to design and implement integrated and participatory actions in your city.

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

EUCENA Citizen Energy Academy – Open online courses

The Massive Open Online Couse (MOOC) by EUCENA starts from the basics of community energy and takes you through the different steps of setting up an energy community project.

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

Mapping the social impact of energy communities

This report presents a non-exhaustive, yet rigorous, set of indicators of the social impact of energy communities.

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  • Preparation
  • Implementation
  • Operation
  • Community
Europe

COMPILE Toolkit: Best Practice Guide

This guide provides examples and best practices on how to create energy communities in various markets of the energy sector.

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  • Implementation
  • Operation
  • Community
  • Financial
  • Political & legal
  • Technical
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