New report: Counting energy communities in the European Union

Our project partner ABUD – Advanced Building & Urban Design created a fascinating database on the Member State level, presenting a ‘strong’ as well as ‘broad’ Energy Community concept, with requirements defined along six dimensions: activities, goals, degree of autonomy, legal forms, proximity and scale.

Some key takeaways:

•   In France, at least 236 energy communities do not fit the REC/CEC definitions adopted from the EU directives
•   Most new energy communities in eastern Europe do not meet the criteria for strong energy communities
•   In Greece, there are nearly 15 times more broad than strong energy communities
•   Each category of broad and strong energy community respond differently to national enabling frameworks
•   Member states should adopt specialized enabling frameworks to ensure their expectations for energy communities are met

COUNTING ENERGY COMMUNITIES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Further information and the main results of the report can be found here: bit.ly/countingECs