From February 2014 to February 2017
CITIZENERGY is a project that builds on know-how developed within the EU by different organisations and initiatives to implement citizen renewable energy projects – from cooperatives to investment intermediation – and provides them with a European dimension.
CITIZENERGY will promote synergies between projects, identify barriers to citizen investment, promote the European transfer of main business models and, most importantly, match citizen investors with new RES (renewable energy sources) projects in Europe.
The action will start by a short framework characterization (legal, financial and citizen requirements and RES promoters practices) followed by the creation of an European platform where citizens can identify investment opportunities in RES projects and where project promoters can engage citizens and fund their projects.
Six community RES pilot projects, in six different EU countries, will be implemented using the aforementioned platform. Impacts and transferability will then be leveraged by expanding to a total of (at least) 10 European countries, in collaboration with ongoing projects such as REScoop 20-20- 20 and Co-Power1, and supporting the implementation of (at least) 6 new community RES projects.
The project will also create a European stakeholder for citizen RES projects, as it gathers many relevant target groups (such as citizens, citizen groups and citizen RES promoters), and key actors (such RES promoters and policy-makers), both in the consortium and in supporting organisations, committed to implementing the results of the project.
This action will help filling the existing gap between awareness and engagement, while promoting transparency and informed decision-making by citizens that join RES projects.
Thus, CITIZENERGY will foster the achievement of Europe’s 2020 objectives by creating a EU collaborative network where RES promoters, citizens and authorities will be able to jointly develop and engage in RES projects.
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