Guidelines on community-led heating and cooling

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Start your own Community-led Heating and Cooling project!

The journey to launch a Community-led Heating and Cooling initiative varies across communities. Sometimes, citizens aim to make their homes more sustainable and find that working together is more cost-effective. In other cases, the municipality makes plans to tender your neighbourhood’s Heating and Cooling decarbonisation, and you decide with your community that you want to keep control of your local heating and cooling system. Whatever the reason, most Community-led Heating and Cooling start from scratch and require building an organization from the ground up.

To help guide you through this process, we invite you to explore the resources available in the menu on the left. You’ll find valuable tools and insights to support the development of your energy community.

Moreover, we recommend to study the SCCALE methodology guide and the REScoop.eu Community Energy Guide.