The Life COMET project
The energy community movement is spreading across Europe. However, central and eastern Europe face specific challenges in the structuring of the civil society initiatives.
Life COMET supports the creation of community energy coalitions at national level in Eastern European countries. Partners will also help the emergence of new energy communities with training and technical assistance.
Our goal is to create 7 coalitions and assist 97 new citizen-led energy initiatives
Energy Communities in central and eastern Europe
Citizen-led energy initiatives have a long history in European countries under the form of citizen cooperatives. The new legal concept of energy communities introduced in the European legislation in 2018 provided the movement with new opportunities.
However, in the European countries which joined after 2010, very few of such initiatives preexisted. Setting up energy communities opens new possibilities and offers the opportunity to strengthen the role of civil society in the energy sector.
