Exemplary international community energy projects

The citizen energy projects can be assigned to the following clusters:

🟫 Cluster 1: Capacity building in local communities
🟨 Cluster 2: Empowering marginalized and underrepresented citizens
🟥 Cluster 3: Developing pilot community energy projects
🟦 Cluster 4: Feasibility studies for integrating energy communities in (new) neighbourhood development
🟩 Cluster 5: Institutionalising community energy capacities and knowledge exchange


🇦🇱 Albania: Gender and socially just energy communities in Albania 🟨

🇬🇷 Greece / 🇲🇰 North Macedonia: “Solar community garden” – The first community-led agrivoltaic project in Greece and North Macedonia 🟥🟩

🇱🇻 Latvia: Catalysing and building capacities for renewable energy communities in rural Latvia 🟫🟥🟩

🇲🇩 Republic of Moldova: Caz Coșniţa – Development of an innovative citizen energy model for rural regions of the Republic of Moldova with the integration of municipal and SME structures 🟫🟥🟩
🇲🇩 Republic of Moldova: Practical guide to citizen energy as regional self-help in Moldova 🟫
🇲🇩 Republic of Moldova: Rural biogas plants in the owner-builder model in the Republic of Moldova 🟫🟥

🇲🇰 North Macedonia: Nostra Nova Domus – Forging more effective partnership and capacity building for efficient use and management of solar energy 🟨🟥
🇲🇰 North Macedonia: Empowering energy vulnerable citizens by establishing Energy Communities in North Macedonia 🟨

🇸🇰 Slovakia: Decarbonized energy system and possibilities of community energy for the new district Mayer Malacky (Slovak Republic) – Feasibility Study 🟦

🇨🇿 Czech Republic: CommUnion – Community Energy Unions in Czech Republic and Germany 🟩
🇨🇿 Czech Republic: Information dissemination and qualification on community energy in Germany and the Czech Republic 🟩
🇨🇿 Czech Republic: Feasibility study: Community energy in the City of Židlochovice, Czech Republic 🟦

🇭🇺 Hungary: HU-GE TRANSFORMATOR 1.0: HUngarian-GErman Cooperation for TRANSFORMing Community Energy 1.0 🟩