Day 3: Wednesday 10 May
Full day side event
09:30-17:45
European Climate Foundation meeting on energy democracy
For ECF grantees only - Register via the Spring Gathering registration form
Starter stream
These activities and workshops will focus on gathering community leaders from Eastern Europe and the Balkans to consolidate and support the community energy movement in the region
Established stream
These activities and workshops are oriented towards more established (or advanced) energy communities and members of REScoop.eu.
09:30-11:00
Spring Gathering Fair
Location: Impact Hub & Eteron
Meet and brainstorm with other projects and organisations working on community energy during the Spring Gathering Fair
11:00-12:30
Show me the money: emerging financing opportunities for energy communities
Location: Eteron
The workshop will discuss potential public and private financing challenges and opportunities for energy communities in Europe. A range of different speakers, including from NGOs & energy communities, will present their experiences.
Inclusion and Equality part 2: Energy poverty alleviation through community energy
Location: Impact Hub
As energy poverty numbers rose across Europe due to the current fossil fuel crisis, calls for a just energy future grew louder. Renewable energy and the official recognition of energy communities in the EU legal framework, offer the potential of alternatively organising and governing the energy system, based on social, democratic and ecological principles, instead of profit. The CEES project has been investigating different community energy mechanisms to tackle energy poverty. During this session CEES partners will help other energy communities set up a concrete action plan to tackle energy poverty, looking at concrete mechanisms, challenges and opportunities.
12:30-13:30
Lunch
Location: Impact Hub
13:30-15:00
Closing, summary and next steps
Location: Impact Hub
15:00-16:30
Side event: Community energy law in Greece, Serbia, Poland and Bulgaria; Stock taking and bottlenecks
Location: Impact Hub By invitation only
In light of the Transposition of EU Directives, this workshop, organised by the Heinrich böll stiftung offices of Belgrade, Thessaloniki and Warsaw, provides an opportunity to energy policy experts, community energy leaders and representatives of support organisations to dive deeper in the current state of the legal framework on energy communities/prosumerism in the respecting countries and to overcome language barriers that often hinder knowledge exchange.
17:00-19:00
REScoop.eu General Assembly
Location: Impact Hub For REScoop.eu members only
19:00
REScoop.eu Member dinner
For REScoop.eu members only
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