Assessment report on technical, legal, institutional and policy conditions

European law puts consumers at the heart of EU energy policies and includes provisions for energy communities, empowering citizens to participate in the energy market. However, national governments are still integrating them in national laws.

This report analyses the national laws for energy communities in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal and Spain. Moreover, it provides information about the technical conditions to create energy communities in these countries.

The document has been developed with a policy focus but it can provide very interesting insights into the legal context and support schemes for energy communities in the analysed countries. More specifically, it focuses on:

• Technical conditions (region characteristics, accessibility and land use restrictions, electricity context)
• Legal and policy frameworks for energy communities
• Social conditions (community energy development and social acceptance renewables)

It also includes annexes with further descriptions of the following regions:

• Apulia (Italy)
• Balearic and Canary Islands (Spain)
• Latvia
• Limburg and West-Flanders (Belgium)
• North-Brabant (Netherlands)
• Norte (Portugal)
• Norway
• Thuringia (Germany)
• Warmia-Masurian (Poland)