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WORKING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNITY ENERGY in Greece and South-East Europe

ACTION RESEARCH

We research community energy business modeling, financing, governance, social acceptance, energy poverty mitigation

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

We support citizens, SMEs, and Municipalities in developing community energy projects

ELECTRA ENERGY is an organization working since 2016 for the transition to a democratic, inclusive, and sustainable energy system with citizens at its core

CAPACITY BUILDING

We raise awareness and run educational, training, capacity-building, and upskilling activities and programs

ADVOCACY

We work on monitoring and improving community energy policies, regulations, targets, and strategies

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AWARENESS RAISING & CAPACITY BUILDING IN SPAIN

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AWARENESS RAISING & CAPACITY BUILDING IN GREECE

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We are an official member of the European federation of citizen energy cooperatives since 2016

Collaborations

We work together with national and international organizations and institutions

 

Initiatives

Social & Solidarity Economy Platform “KALOMATHE”

Electra Energy is a founding member of KALOMATHE Association.  The Association has developed an online social and solidarity economy educational platform.  It also provides capacity building and training services.

Community Energy Observatory

Our latest initiative is aiming at developing an observatory to collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data and input associated with the development of energy communities and community energy projects in Greece.

We work together with governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, and academic institutions.

Energy Democracy Dialogues

is an open platform where energy experts, policymakers, businesses, politicians, academicians, civil society representatives, and citizens meet and debate on the critical issue of Energy Democracy.

Energy Democracy Dialogues is an initiative of INZEB and Electra Energy Cooperative.

Publications

The social impact of energy communities in Greece

Report (English version), 2023

Ο κοινωνικός αντίκτυπος των ενεργειακών κοινοτήτων στην Ελλάδα

Report (Greek version), 2023

Building energy communities in Greece

Guidebook, 2019

Οδηγός βέλτιστων πρακτικών για τη Νοτιοανατολική Ευρώπη

Guidebook, 2022

Mapping of energy communities in Greece

Survey, 2020

Mapping of social impact of energy communities

Report, 2022

Community Energy – A practical guide to reclaiming power

Translation, 2021

Development of energy communities in Greece: Challenges and proposals

Report, 2021

Instigating a post-growth transformation of the energy sector: the case of Greek energy communities

2021

Projects / Activities

LIFE COMET

LIFE COMET

The project will create community energy coalitions at the national level in Eastern European countries and support pioneer energy communities in Greece, Croatia, Romania, Hungary, Slovenia, Poland, and Estonia.

On the one hand, the coalitions will foster the collaboration of key stakeholders at the national level to transform enabling frameworks and make procedures and regulatory contexts more supportive of community energy. On the other, the project intends to deliver training and technical assistance to new energy community projects and enable peer to peer exchanges in the region.

The project will also support the replication of the energy community coalitions in Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Bulgaria.

Project funded by European Commission

Duration: 2023-2026

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DR-RISE

“Demand Response – Residential Innovation for a Sustainable Energy system”

DR-RISE’s main objective is to demonstrate the benefits of Demand Response in the residential sector for end-consumers, energy communities, and the overall energy system and the actors involved.

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Project funded by: European Commission HorizonEurope

Duration: 2023 – 2027

Co-Energy

The CoEnergy project is tackling energy poverty by facilitating the participation of energy-poor families in collective self-consumption community energy projects.  CoEnergy is also undertaking capacity building, awareness raising, and advocacy actions.

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Partners: Impact Hub Athens

Project funded by: Bodossaki Foundation

Duration: 2023 – 2024

 

SolarHub

SolarHub is a Greek-Turkish Solar Energy Excellence Hub to Advance the European Green Deal

SolarHub’s overall objective is to strengthen connections between and scale-up 5 Greek and Turkish solar energy innovation ecosystems as a single, hybrid, cross-border, and interconnected Solar Energy Excellence Hub with an emphasis on agriculture applications.

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Project funded by: European Commission HorizonEurope

Duration: 2023 – 2026

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LIFE LOOP

LIFE LOOP (Local Ownership Of Power)

The project will:

-Build capacity, empowering local and regional government, citizens, and other stakeholders to work together.

-Unlock and utilize existing and new sources of funding to create new community energy initiatives

-Simplify and reduce regulatory hurdles for community energy development in municipalities, adapting local policy where possible

-Incentivise broader participation through developing a ‘community energy-friendly training and award program for municipalities, resource library, and match-making tools.

Project funded by European Commission

Duration: 2022-2025

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Social impact of energy communities in Greece 

A series of activities with a goal to deepen the understanding of the social impacts of energy communities and the multiple benefits measuring it holds for a diverse spectrum of actors.

Partners: ELECTRA energy, RESCOOP.EU, Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Thessaloniki Office

Project funded by: Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Thessaloniki Office

Duration: 2021 – 2024

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SCCALE 20-30-50

Sustainable Collective Citizen Action for a Local Europe

The aim of SCCALE 203050 (Sustainable Collective Citizen Action for a Local Europe) is to scale the growth of energy communities across Europe in the areas of energy efficiency, renewable energy production, district heating, and more in households and non-residential buildings.

Partners: RESCOOP.EU, ECOPOWER, ENERCOOP, ELECTRA energy, ZEZ, ENERGY CITIES, University of DELFT, Energy Samen, Grad Porec municipality, Stad Leuven municipality

Project funded by: European Commission Horizon2020

Project duration: 2021 – 2024

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Collective Energy Bridges

The project is promoting energy democracy in Epirus region by designing and realizing targeted policy, awareness raising and educational actions and by showcasing CommonEn energy community as a best practice for collective energy production.

Partners: ELECTRA energy, CommonEn energy community

Project funded by: Guerilla Foundation

Status: Completed

Niroo

Α startup project developed to deliver the first European marketplace that will engage consumers to access clean and energy efficiency products and services.

Partners: ELECTRA energy

Project funded by CLIMATE-KIC and supported by Impact Hub Athens

Status: Completed

 

EUropean Citizen ENergy Academy (EUCENA)

EUCENA aims to accelerate the energy transition in Central-Eastern Europe by setting up an annual summer school where energy communities can exchange experiences and learn new skills. The project will focus on Germany, Albania, and Greece.

Partners: RESCOOP.EU, BBEn, WECF, Milieukontakt Albania, ELECTRA energy

Project funded by: European Climate Initiative of the German Ministry for International Collaboration (EUKI)

Status: Completed

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“Athens Niroo

Community”

Athens Niroo Community is a project by ELECTRA ENERGY cooperative, initiated through the “Curing the Limbo” program by Co-Athens and supported by the Municipality of Athens.

Status: Completed

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“Energy Communities

mapping”

The aim of the survey we are conducting on behalf of Greenpeace Greece is to identify and locate the existing Energy Communities in Greece.

The survey will also extract valuable information about the activities, best practices, challenges, social characteristics, gender-related aspects, and financial needs of the Energy Communities.

 Mapping of energy communities in Greece

Status: Completed

 

Community Energy Strategic Plan – Municipality of Aspropirgos

We supported the Municipality of Aspropirgos to conduct a community energy strategy in order to tackle energy poverty and to develop local RES projects, starting with a 1MW virtual net-metering solar park.

Status: Completed

By(e) Plastic

Project

The project involved educational activities and workshops on plastic waste recycling/up-cycling with open source technologies

Target group: Refugees

Partners: Solidarity Now, Precious Plastic Greece, Almasar NGO

Status: Completed

 
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“Community.emPOWERment” 

Project

The “Community.emPOWERment” project involved the design and implementation of capacity building workshops and raising awareness campaigns about the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) and Energy Communities.

Status: Completed

 

Citizen-led initiatives, Municipalities and Energy Communities we support

We the Power | The Future of Energy is Community-Owned

“We the Power” is a great film about the citizen-led community-energy movement in Europe and the visionaries lighting the way.

 We contributed to it by adding Greek subtitles.  Choose “Settings/Subtitles/Greek”

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Affiliate Projects

Following the 6th cooperative principle*, we support, participate, and co-invest in projects developed by fellow organizations and cooperatives.

*cooperation among cooperatives

Som Energia Projects

We are proud members of SOM Energia and we are supporting their new projects in Spain.  Som Energia is the biggest energy cooperative in Spain, producing and supplying electricity to more than 50,000 clients and cooperative members.

“Viure de l’aire” Project

We invested in the collective project “Viure de l’aire”, which promotes the installation of an Enercon E-103 EP2 wind turbine of 2,35MW in the rural town of Pujalt (Anoia, Catalunya, Spain).  Viure del Aire is the first community wind project in Spain. The project is located in Pujalt, close to Barcelona.

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