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02 Feb 23

Renewable energy community stakeholders convene in Brussels for the COME RES final conference

Renewable energy communities are in fashion - according to many of the participants at yesterday’s COME RES final conference held in Brussels. The concepts of local ownership, collective self-consumption and energy sharing are increasing in...

17 Jan 23

Local stakeholders central to advancing community energy

Community energy stakeholders have played an essential role throughout the COME RES project, as highlighted in the latest report ‘D3.3 Final Consolidated Summary Report of Desk Activities in the Target Regions’. This report summarises the...

08 Dec 22

COME RES and the Canary Islands join forces to develop an action plan on renewable energy communities

It is already a reality that renewable energy communities are progressively developing across Europe. Within the COME RES scope, this progress has not only been promoted across mainland Europe, but also in some outermost regions including the Canary...

28 Nov 22

German country desk concludes: Failing energy sharing is the achilles heel for the mainstreaming of renewable energy communities

On November 23, 2022 the second and final status meeting of the German country desk was organised online by the Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with the Wind Energy Service Unit of the Thuringian Energy and GreenTech Agency (ThEGA). The...

11 Nov 22

Italian – Latvian renewable energy community exchange visits

What do Latvian renewable energy communities have in common with their Italian counterparts? As it turns out, a lot. Within the framework of the COME RES project, a group of Latvian renewable energy stakeholders – including representatives from...

10 Nov 22

How to transfer a best practice energy community – insights from a real case example of the ‘Energy Gardens’

Renewable energy communities are spreading throughout Europe, in different shapes and forms, and to varying degrees of success. Since all are in the energy community movement together, with similar aims and visions of a more democratic and just...