Support services for energy communities
Funds up to EUR 1.75 million (95% of costs) for multi-country teams that run hands-on advisory services helping citizens and local groups set up and grow renewable or citizen energy communities.
Services must give direct, personalised technical support through the phases of setting up an energy community project — access to finance, business model design, legal advice, energy commercialisation and operational help — and can also aim at scaling up and professionalising existing communities through approaches like peer-to-peer support and twinning programmes between communities at different…
LIFE Clean Energy Transition wants proposals that establish or expand support services for renewable energy communities and citizen energy communities, delivered by local actors such as regional governments, energy agencies or umbrella community organisations. Services must give personalised, hands-on technical support through the phases of setting up a community project — access to finance, business model design, legal advice, energy commercialisation and operational help — not just generic online guidance or information portals.
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