Co-producing and co-financing renewable community energy projects

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Baltic Sea

Date of latest update: 2023-06-16

Description

Description (EN):

When citizens join forces to set up, finance and manage energy production based on renewables in their region, we call it renewable community energy. The project gives municipalities, regional energy planning agencies and citizens’ associations across the Baltic Sea region the information they need to start and run community energy projects in their regions. What is community energy? Community energy projects offer enhanced production of renewable energies from local sources such as wind, solar, biomass, hydropower or geothermal through active participation of local communities. Together, citizens co-finance, co-develop, and co-operate renewable energy plants, and foster sustainable energy distribution, like local heating networks or biogas filling stations. Through active communication, transparent decision-making, and local benefit sharing community energy projects have high social acceptance. Consequently, fostering community energy projects is highly promising for increasing the share of renewable energies in the Baltic Sea region. Who benefits from our project? No comprehensive documents about community energy exist in the Baltic Sea region. Co2mmunity’s objectives are to create this community energy knowledge base and to enhance the institutional capacities of Municipalities, institutions responsible for regional energy planning, political decision-makers, and energy and citizen’s associations for facilitating community energy projects. What do we do? Core to our approach are renewable energy cooperative partnerships (RENCOP) that initiate and support community energy projects. In each partner region Co2mmunity initiates and manages a RENCOP. A transnational exchange of RENCOPs results in a transferable RENCOP model/roadmap, enabling a transnational catch-up process between frontrunners and followers as well as enhancing the capacity of local, regional and region-wide actors to foster community energy. Beyond this, we develop a synthesis report on the current community energy situation in the Baltic Sea Region, including a best practice compilation. It showcases success factors of community energy projects that are transferable across contexts. We also develop locally specific community energy handbooks and white papers for public stakeholders.

Achievements (EN):

The partners established nine renewable energy cooperative partnerships (RENCOPs) across the Baltic Sea region. These partnerships piloted two cooperation models to stimulate community renewable energy projects: driven by experts or by citizens. Almost all the RENCOPs got a reginal dimension. A partnership in Schleswig-Holstein in Germany initiated a cooperative on wind energy production. Middelfart in Denmark focused on ground source heat pumps. Uusimaa in Finland went for hybrid system of ground source heat pumps and solar panels, while Finnish South Ostrobothnia – biomass micro combined heat and power. Marupe in Latvia selected solar panels. Kaunas region in Lithuania chose a rooftop solar photovoltaic system, while Southeast Sweden – a grid-connected solar photovoltaic system. Two RENCOPs had the country dimension. Estonia focused on solar panel energy; and Poland went for solar, bio energy, wind, geothermal, energy storage. Follow-up activities: CO2mmunity continues as the project Energize CO2mmunity. http://interreg-baltic.eu/project/co2mmunity/

Website: http://www.co2mmunity.eu

Delivered Outputs (EN):

Synthesis report about current situation of CE in BSR including best practice compilation Guideline for participatory mobilization process to set up RENCOP Transnational CE partner agreement RENCOP roadmap for municipalities and regional actors across the BSR 8 country-specific handbooks for CE for municipalities and citizens’ associations White paper for national and regional stakeholders to support/initiate CE projects Policy paper for BSR energy stakeholders/actors

Thematic information

Renewable energy

Specific Objective: ‘Renewable energy’: To increase production of sustainable renewable energy based on enhanced capacity of public and private actors involved in energy planning and supply

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06g) supporting industrial transition towards a resource- efficient economy, promoting green growth, eco-innovation and environmental performance management in the public and private sectors

Partners (16)

Lead Partner: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Department: Department of Geography

Address: Olshausenstraße 40, 24118 Kiel, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.uni-kiel.de

Total budget: EUR 427 640.10

ERDF budget: EUR 320 730.07

Green City Energy AG, SUCCEEDED by PP17 (01.01.2018)

Name: Green City Energy AG, SUCCEEDED by PP17 (01.01.2018)

Address: Zirkus-Krone-Straße 10, 80335 Munich , Germany

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.greencity-energy.de

Total budget: EUR 21 338.82

ERDF budget: EUR 16 004.11

Bildungswerk "anderes lernen, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Schleswig-Holstein" e.V.

Name: Bildungswerk "anderes lernen, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Schleswig-Holstein" e.V.

Department: Energy Citizens.SH

Address: Heiligendammer Straße 15 , 24106 Kiel, Germany

Legal status: public

Website (not verified): http://www.boell-sh.dewww.energiebuerger.sh

Total budget: EUR 233 925.00

ERDF budget: EUR 175 443.75

Middelfart Kommune

Name: Middelfart Kommune

Address: Teglgaardsparken 103 , 5500 Middelfart , Denmark

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.middelfart.dk

Total budget: EUR 312 621.60

ERDF budget: EUR 234 466.20

Tartu Regiooni Energiaagentuur

Name: Tartu Regiooni Energiaagentuur

Address: Riia 185 , 51014 Tartu, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.trea.ee

Total budget: EUR 145 915.00

ERDF budget: EUR 124 027.75

Aalto-korkeakoulusäätiö sr

Name: Aalto-korkeakoulusäätiö sr

Department: School of Business, Department of Management Studies

Address: P.O. Box 11000 , 00076 Aalto, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.aalto.fi

Total budget: EUR 173 850.00

ERDF budget: EUR 130 387.50

Green Net Finland ry

Name: Green Net Finland ry

Address: Elannontie 3 , 01510 Vantaa , Finland

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.gnf.fi

Total budget: EUR 177 400.00

ERDF budget: EUR 133 050.00

Etelä-Pohjanmaan liitto

Name: Etelä-Pohjanmaan liitto

Address: Kampusranta 9 C, P.O. Box 109 , 60101 Seinäjoki , Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.epliitto.fi

Total budget: EUR 137 050.00

ERDF budget: EUR 102 787.50

Thermopolis Oy - Etelä-Pohjanmaan Energiatoimisto

Name: Thermopolis Oy - Etelä-Pohjanmaan Energiatoimisto

Address: Lassilantie 12 , 62100 Lapua , Finland

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.thermopolis.fi

Total budget: EUR 138 497.10

ERDF budget: EUR 103 872.82

Riga Planning Region

Name: Riga Planning Region

Address: 18 Z.A.Meierovica Blvd. , LV 1050 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.rpr.gov.lv

Total budget: EUR 284 664.50

ERDF budget: EUR 241 964.82

Kauno regioninė energetikos agentūra

Name: Kauno regioninė energetikos agentūra

Address: Breslaujos st.3B , LT-44403 Kaunas, Lithuania

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.krea.lt

Total budget: EUR 138 280.00

ERDF budget: EUR 117 538.00

Lithuanian Energy Institute (LEI)

Name: Lithuanian Energy Institute (LEI)

Address: Breslaujos str. 3 , 44403 Kaunas , Lithuania

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.lei.lt

Total budget: EUR 107 900.00

ERDF budget: EUR 91 715.00

Fundacja na rzecz Energetyki Zrównoważonej

Name: Fundacja na rzecz Energetyki Zrównoważonej

Address: Bukowińska 24A/14 , 02-703 Warsaw , Poland

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.fnez.org

Total budget: EUR 185 218.50

ERDF budget: EUR 157 435.72

Energikontor Sydost AB

Name: Energikontor Sydost AB

Address: Smedjegatan 37 , 352 46 Växjö , Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.energikontorsydost.se

Total budget: EUR 223 951.90

ERDF budget: EUR 167 963.92

Lunds Universitet

Name: Lunds Universitet

Department: Department of Human Geography

Address: Sölvegatan 10 , 223 62 Lund, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.keg.lu.se

Total budget: EUR 276 633.05

ERDF budget: EUR 207 474.78

Green City Experience GmbH

Name: Green City Experience GmbH

Address: Albert-Roßhaupter-Str. 32, 81369 München, Germany

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.greencity.de/experience

Total budget: EUR 163 980.43

ERDF budget: EUR 122 985.32

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Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel

Co-producing and co-financing renewable community energy projects

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Green City Energy AG, SUCCEEDED by PP17 (01.01.2018)

Co-producing and co-financing renewable community energy projects

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Heinrich-Böll Foundation Schleswig-Holstein e.V.

Co-producing and co-financing renewable community energy projects

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Middelfart Municipality

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Tartu Regional Energy Agency (TREA)

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Aalto University Foundation sr

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Green Net Finland

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Etelä-Pohjanmaan liitto

Co-producing and co-financing renewable community energy projects

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Thermopolis Ltd - Energy Agency of South Ostrobothnia

Co-producing and co-financing renewable community energy projects

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Rīgas plānošanas reģions

Co-producing and co-financing renewable community energy projects

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Kaunas Regional Energy Agency

Co-producing and co-financing renewable community energy projects

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Lietuvos energetikos institutas (LEI)

Co-producing and co-financing renewable community energy projects

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Foundation for Sustainable Energy

Co-producing and co-financing renewable community energy projects

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Energy Agency for Southeast Sweden

Co-producing and co-financing renewable community energy projects

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Lund university

Co-producing and co-financing renewable community energy projects

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Green City Experience GmbH

Co-producing and co-financing renewable community energy projects

Lead partner

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Summary

Project name (EN): Co-producing and co-financing renewable community energy projects

Project acronym: Co2mmunity

Project start date: 2017-10-01

Project end date: 2020-09-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 3 148 866.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 447 847.26

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 77.70%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 2 447 847.26.

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Websites / webtools / webforums / cooperative platforms

Co2mmunity – Co-producing and co-financing renewable community energy projects

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Website / webtool / webforum / cooperative platform

Data source: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/co2mmunity/

Publication date: 2022-07-30

Document date: 2019-09-30

Languages: en

Attachment link: https://co2mmunity.eu/

Co-producing and co-financing renewable community energy projects - Interreg Baltic Sea Region

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Website / webtool / webforum / cooperative platform

Data source: https://projects.interreg-baltic.eu/

Publication date: 2022-07-30

Document date: 2020-09-30

Languages: en

Attachment link: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/co2mmunity/

Brochures / magazines / manuals

How to increase Community Energy using the RENCOP-model - Roadmap for municipalities and regional actors

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/co2mmunity/

Publication date: 2022-07-30

Document date: 2020-09-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

WHITE PAPER - Policy recommendations for Renewable Energy Communities Development

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/co2mmunity/

Publication date: 2022-07-30

Document date: 2020-09-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Clean energy together - Policy recommendations to seize the potential of community energy in the Baltic Sea region

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/co2mmunity/

Publication date: 2022-07-30

Document date: 2020-09-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Guidelines for participatory mobilisation process to set up a RENCOP and CE Partner Agreement

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/co2mmunity/

Publication date: 2022-07-30

Document date: 2020-09-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Presentations

More than a Common Backup: How you can find Community Energy Projects in our Database

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://co2mmunity.eu/

Publication date: 2022-07-30

Document date: 2020-09-08

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Baltic Sea

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-06-16

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

200 / 200 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

2 025 / 2 025 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.interreg-baltic.eu/home.html), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-30.

The financial data featured in keep.eu for this programme, it's projects and its partners is not exact and should be taken as a reference only.

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