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REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 22h

🚨 Webinar alert

🤝 Join us on 27 October to explore the risks and benefits of local communities working with private developers to co-create projects.

🌞 Representatives of civil society, community energy networks, and industry will all share their perspectives.

🔗 www.rescoop.eu/news-and-eve...

REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 1d

✍️ Signing the #ACCE Charter of ethical and organisational principles for Community Energy Financing Schemes (CEFS).

🧭 Inspired by the 7 cooperative principles, this shared commitment lays the foundation for a clean energy transition built on ethical, transparent, and community-driven financing.

REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 1d

🧭 From energy communities to policy-makers and financial experts, multiple voices share one call: to expand financial instruments that truly recognise the unique models of community energy.

▶️ Happening now at the #ACCE Conference.

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REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 2d

🎙️ Our @saratachelet.bsky.social, #ACCE Project Coordinator, at the opening of the ACCE Conference "From Blueprint to Breakthrough: Launching Community Energy Financing Schemes across Europe".

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REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 2d

⚡ The energy is high!
🥳 The #ACCE Final Conference begins!

The ACCE project wraps up by bringing together the growing movement for community energy finance - a celebration of collaboration, innovation, and impact.

✨ Inspiring new ways to unlock capital for a just and democratic energy transition.

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Cooperatives Europe @coopseurope.bsky.social · 7d

Europe’s housing debate undervalues a key player.

🏘️ Coops & the #SocialEconomy prove housing can be affordable, inclusive & community-driven.

Join the debate!
🗓️ 14 Oct | European Parliament, Room 3E2

Register by 7 Oct 👉 coopseurope.coop/events/socia...

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REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 2d

📨 Our October newsletter is out!

With updates on:
📣 Job opening at REScoop.eu
📑 Our Citizens Energy Package consultation response
🏫 A course for local authorities

Read it here: mailchi.mp/rescoop.eu/o...

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REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 5d

✨ Final days to register for the #ACCE Final Conference!

Connect with the energy financing community and gain first-hand insights from innovative experiences shared by energy communities and investors.

📅 7 October
⏰ 11:30-19:00
📍 Brussels

Register → lnkd.in/dvi7XkQv

REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 6d

❌ A €100 million programme dedicated to energy communities in Greece will no longer benefit from EU funds due to delays in its implementation by the Greek authorities.

📉 As a result of this, we downgraded the assessment of Greece’s Recovery Plan in our financing tracker.

👉 lnkd.in/eEWYAXNX

REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 7d

💡 Citizen-led heating and cooling encourages smarter, more flexible energy consumption.

By producing their own thermal energy, these community initiatives alleviate grid pressure while helping you optimise your electricity use.

Learn more about them!
energycommunityplatform.eu/resources/gu...

REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 7d

✨690 energy communities have applied for the first call for proposals of the European Energy Communities Facility!

🤩We are delighted with this massive response. Good luck to all applicants and thank you for taking the time to apply!

🔗 energycommunitiesfacility.eu/news/690-ene...

#ENERCOMFacility

REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 8d

📜 The Citizens Energy Package could be a spark to galvanise the energy democracy movement.

🇪🇺 We published our response to the European Commission’s consultation, structuring our demands around 3 pillars.

Read our full response: www.rescoop.eu/toolbox/resp...

REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 9d

🍾 Some great news to start your day: Cyprus has launched its first energy community!

🌞Lefkothea aims to lower electricity costs, expand local energy generation and give residents and businesses a direct role in the clean energy transition.

Learn more: energy-cities.eu/celebrating-...
#LifeLOOPEU

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REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 9d

📞 Calling all energy stakeholders:

🖊️ Take this short survey to help a Marie Skłodowska-Curie project address a research gap on how energy communities -including women-led initiatives - can access finance for storage deployment.

📝 eiee.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 10d

🏆 #SuccessStoryOfTheMonth

🎓 Universities: a new frontier for energy communities?

🇩🇰 In Denmark, a group of researchers set up the first university-based energy cooperative in the country, involving students and residents along the way.

🗞️ Read their inspiring story! www.rescoop.eu/news-and-eve...

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REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 13d

🇩🇪 Are you based in Germany?

💡On November 15, the first CoopCamp Energiewende will take place in Weimar – a conference for everyone who wants to share knowledge on the energy transition and take action together.

🎫 Find out more: genossenschaften.digital/coopcamp/coo...

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REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 14d

💶 From risk to resilience: How citizens can fund the energy transition

🎙️Our Chris Vrettos spoke to Marine Cornélis about Community Energy Financing Schemes on the Energ’Ethic podcast.

🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/352H...

From Risky to Resilient: How Citizens Can Fund the Transition - Chris Vrettos, ACCE project

open.spotify.com

REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 14d

Yesterday, we joined hundreds of people to say no to deregulation.

Under the guise of simplification, the European Commission is pushing deregulation that threatens climate and social protection.

📣 People and the planet come before corporate profits.

🔗 friendsoftheearth.eu/press-releas...

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REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 14d

🚨 Job alert! 🚨

We are looking for a Policy Advisor to join our team in Brussels to help shape tomorrow’s energy system and create opportunities for local actors.

💚 Ready to make a meaningful impact?

Apply by 19 October!

🔗 www.rescoop.eu/news-and-eve...

REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 16d

📍Are you based in a border region and looking to engage with your neighbouring communities for a sustainable energy future?

Apply for a €15,000 grant through the Cross-Border Energy Communities initiative to start your energy community.

📤 Apply by 21 November.

➡️ border-energy-communities.eu

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REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 17d

💸 The #ACCE project explores how to finance community energy most effectively.

🔎 Énergie Partagée Investissement is a great example of transformative funding.

Since 2010, they have supported 160 projects with €45 million in citizen equity. 🚀

🔗 acce.rescoop.eu/news/empower...

REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 19d

#DrawTheLine - For life, for people, for the planet!

✊ This weekend thousands of people around the world are standing up together to draw the line against injustice, pollution, and violence – and for a future built on peace, clean energy, and fairness.

Join the movement! ➡ drawtheline.world

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REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 20d

🎉We're happy to welcome 3 new members and 2 new supporters to our network!

📍WeForGreen Sharing and Lucense 1923 in Italy 🇮🇹
📍Ecooo in Spain 🇪🇸
📍Association SUNRISE in North Macedonia 🇲🇰
📍The Energy Agency of Plovdiv in Bulgaria 🇧🇬

🗺️ Learn more about our new members: www.rescoop.eu/news-and-eve...

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REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 21d

🚩Untransparent
🚩Delayed
🚩Legally non-compliant

France and Denmark still haven’t presented a draft Social Climate Plan to civil society.

📊 Compare how other Member States are doing with our Social Climate Fund Tracker: shorturl.at/aUduL

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REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 21d

✨Inspire, connect and learn with the Energy Community Platform!

Join the energy communities network and be part of the growing movement driving energy democracy across Europe! 🗺️

energycommunityplatform.eu/communities/

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