This report explores the critical elements required to establish a supportive enabling framework for energy communities across Europe. It highlights the challenges faced by energy communities in the five ACCE replication countries (Croatia, Romania, Germany, Spain, and Belgium) and provides tailored recommendations to address these challenges.
Deliverable 6.1 provides an overview of the legal framework for Community Energy Financing Schemes (CEFSs) under Work Package 6 of the LIFE ACCE project. It focuses on European-level barriers, identified through interviews with partners and experts. Rather than a full legal review, this report serves as a practical guide, drawing on project partners' experiences.
This report explores how energy communities can gain improved access to EU and national funding instruments, presenting an analysis in three main components:: mapping the current state of funding, supporting structures and secondary-level organizations, and the EU Intermediary facilitation Service. By addressing these three areas, the report outlines actionable steps to bridge funding gaps, streamline access, and support energy communities in seeking access to finance.
Our webinar explored innovative Community Energy Financing Schemes across Europe and strategies to accelerate citizen energy initiatives through structured funding mechanisms. The session featured two insightful case studies: 1) Belgium Case Study: Karel Derveaux from Ecopower presented the cooperative's successful model in Flanders. Their approach demonstrates how citizen-driven cooperatives can effectively finance and operate renewable energy projects. 2) Croatian Perspective: Goran Cacic from ZEZ (Green Energy Cooperative) shared examples from Croatia, highlighting the growing interest in community energy projects in Eastern Europe.
The ACCE project has built knowledge upon the successful experiences of Energy4All, Energie Samen and Energie Partagée. It is also empowering 5 energy community players to set up the ground for developing their own Community Energy Financing Schemes. As such, the knowledge built within the ACCE project is back by hand-on experimentations and trials. In our webinar, we present the tools and learnings from the project.
Are you an energy community that has often found it impossible to finance your projects due to a lack of confidence on the investor side? Are you an investor interested in a just and democratic energy transition but do not want to take big risks? Then we recommend you watch the first webinar of the ACCE project!
This guide aims at facilitating the set-up of a CEFS. For doing so, it identifies the main barriers, and their resulting bottlenecks to set up a CEFS, and highlights solutions to overcome those barriers and transform obstacles into opportunities.
In this guide, we identify the main types of CEFSs that energy communities could use. We also describe the key characteristics and and success factors of each of these CEFS.
Here you will find practical examples to help energy communities create financing tools dedicated to community energy projects.
Take a look at our multilingual flyer - a glimpse into the essence and impact of our project.
A report that focuses on isolating the success factors as well as the barriers encountered by the most prominent CEFS.
This database aims to collect and classify the existing Community Energy Financing Schemes (CEFS) in Europe.
The ACCE project has received funding from the LIFE Programme of the European Union.
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