Ecosystems

EEG Premstätten - As a privately initiated energy community (non-profit, non-profit association), our goal is the sustainable production and provision of 100% regional energy from renewable energy sources of our members.

Elektrizitätswerke Hindelang is a cooperative which was founded in the 1920s by the citizens of Hindelang to supply their village with electricity. The initiative generates electricity, organises local energy trading and operates the local grid of Bad Hindelang.

The Green Energy Cooperative (ZEZ) was established in 2013 as part of the project Development of Energy Cooperatives in Croatia implemented by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Croatia. Upon completion of the project, ZEZ continues to operate independently and to this day becomes the umbrella organization in the field of citizen energy in Croatia and the region. ZEZ’s mission is to help citizens develop, invest and use renewable energy sources. Our goal is to achieve real changes in the development of energetics and the involvement of citizens in the process of energy transition. We want to enable citizens to participate in planning, decision-making, construction and energy production, as well as to participate in profit sharing. Through our activities, we encourage the development of social entrepreneurship in the energy sector, we influence social equality and protection of the environment. We develop concrete and sustainable solutions that enhance the development of your local community.

Erneuerbare-Energie-Gemeinschaft Steiermark (EEG Steiermark) is one of nine provincial renewable energy communities (RECs). EEG Steiermark manages over 140 RECs in Styria and utilises the electricity grids of over 40 Styrian grid operators at over 60 Styrian transmission substations. Our electricity comes 100% from renewable energy sources such as water, wind, and sun. The distribution of thermal energy (energy production via combined heat and power generation, e.g., via sustainably operated combined heat and power plants) is in the planning stage, but it is still a long way into the future considering legal and technical terms.

Collective Energy is a non-profit citizen energy community founded in Athens at the beginning of 2020 according to the Greek law 4513/2018. Collective Energy is a means of exploring collective paths that can lead to the transformation of the existing energy model, in the basis of social, environmental, economic, and political reform.

Hyperion Energy Community is officially the first energy community of citizens in Athens, which will produce its own solar energy for self-consumption.

Lochem Energie is an energy cooperative with a variety of products (solar panels, collective energy generation, energy coach, electric car sharing

MINOAN ENERGY is the first Energy Community in Crete, but also in the whole insular area of our Country. The model of Energy Community is already well established and operates with success in all European countries, such as United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and mainly Spain, while other countries have also started to promote dynamically this institution. In these countries, hundreds of thousands of citizens, house and business owners, are members of energy communities, who are provided with accessible electricity produced by wind turbines, solar collectors, bio-gas plants, hydroelectric projects etc. These projects are very big and expensive if installed by each of us individually. But it is a great opportunity now for thousands of people who support the idea of suppling their homes and businesses with locally produced, clean and renewable electricity, to join us in order to materialize this idea. Apart from this, soon after the electricity interconnection of Crete to the mainland, each citizen of Crete will be able to invest in sustainable energy projects of our Community and secure a satisfactory supplementary income for their family.