Background To meet the EU’s Fit for 55 and RePower targets, Central and Eastern European countries must take more ownership of the implementation of EU climate and energy policy and draft and implement ambitious national policies for a green transition. However, in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Croatia, the development of green solutions, particularly the […]

Background Energy poverty is widespread in poor rural areas of South-East Europe. Promising solutions to tackle this problem are energy efficiency measures and switching to renewable energies. However, their implementation remains difficult. Energy Communities (ECs) and their potential to pave the way for a clean energy transition are largely unknown. ECs are citizen-driven climate actions […]

Background Energy Communities (ECs) centred around renewables are a key measure to contribute towards the European clean energy transition and reaching the EU’s 2050 climate neutrality goal, along with initiatives such as REPowerEU. The energy transition has to be swift and just and has to involve citizens in the energy market. A sound legal framework […]