Recommendations to create an energy community

  • Preparation
  • Implementation
  • Community
  • Political & legal
  • Greece

This guide helps understand the steps to create an energy community in Greece. It touches on key legal and administrative procedures that every energy community needs to go through and provides detailed information on how to go through them, the time it can take and the money needed. The guide identifies eight key steps:

  • Building the foundation
  • Preparation of the legal statutes
  • Submission of documents to the general commercial register
  • First general assembly and elections
  • Declaration of legal residence
  • Creating a bank account
  • Membership fees

The guide can be useful to citizens and communities throughout Greece. Please, note that the guide was edited in 2021 and some legal and administrative procedures may have changed.

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