Blog
Keep up to date with the latest news and events about our project, and our partners.
January 23 - 2026
Resource Analysis and Conceptual Planning of Co-Designed Interventions: Mid-Term Insights from Energy4All
The report offers a twofold contribution: a KPI-based evaluation framework and insights from the first co-design workshop held at Kazán on 23 April 2025.
January 23 - 2026
Transition Arenas — Systems Mapping Report
This report provides a structured, comparative analysis of how energy communities and related energy-sharing initiatives operate as complex systems shaped by interactions between social actors, technical infrastructures, economic incentives, and institutional frameworks.
December 2 - 2025
Drastic reduction in heavy industry carbon emissions at Felleskjøpet in Stavanger Municipality!
During a full-day seminar, Energ4all Norwegian partners received a guided tour of the massive new biomass plant at the Felleskjøpet factory. This site visit marked a major project milestone, highlighting how the 6 MWp facility—built with an investment of more than €10 million—now uses oat hulls to produce steam for feed manufacturing, achieving an approximate 90% reduction in carbon emissions since May 2025.
October 30 - 2025
3rd Community Energy Conference – Business Models, Regulation, Citizen Participation
Hungary’s community energy movement is gaining momentum — and the 3rd Community Energy Conference in Budapest asked what it really takes to turn shared generation, fair regulation, and citizen participation into everyday reality.
September 18 - 2025
Partnerships for Energy Innovation: How Stavanger is Reusing Waste Heat
Stavanger’s Hillevåg district shows how reusing industrial waste heat could cut emissions, but faces regulatory, financial, and trust barriers.
August 27 - 2025
Powering the Future Together: How Six Styrian Municipalities Are Building Regional Energy Independence
Six municipalities south of Graz have come together to create the GU-Süd Energy Community, one of Austria’s first cross-municipal cooperatives.
July 23 - 2025
Sharing Our Vision at the “Energy and Communities in Transition” Conference
Energy4All shared its approach to treating energy as an urban commons at the “Energy and Communities in Transition” conference, highlighting how communities, policy, and innovation can work together for a just energy future.
June 11 - 2025
Wastewater Reuse: A Hidden Energy Opportunity
Implementing a circular economy enables industries to transition towards efficient and decarbonized energy systems, as well as the reuse and reutilization of waste energy.
May 15 - 2025
Budapest has been awarded the mission title for climate-neutral cities!
This award means that the Commission recognizes the work we have done in recent years and acknowledges Budapest’s climate neutrality action and investment plan. 👉 And even more importantly: the adoption of the climate agreement also means that we will be able to bring additional EU funds to Budapest
May 6 - 2025
Mapping the system: causal loop diagrams at Kazán Energy Community’s 2nd workshop
At its second in-person workshop led by ABUD the Kazán Energy Community developed a Causal Loop Diagram to explore the systemic drivers of local energy costs and identify points for collective action.
April 30 - 2025
Energy as a Commons: Energy4All Paper presented at REAL CORP 2025
A new paper for REAL CORP 2025 explores how community-driven energy systems, grounded in the concept of energy as a commons, are being developed across Europe through pilot cases in the Energy4All project.
March 26 - 2025
Building Community Energy from the Ground Up in Quarticciolo
In Quarticciolo, the Italian site of our Energy4All project, a humble boxing gym is transforming the lives of young people through community action.
