The Investment Advisor Tool is a decision-support platform designed to identify and recommend sustainable investment options at both the building and community levels. It provides strategic deployment plans, cost estimates, and projections of technical, environmental, and financial impacts. By aligning investment strategies with community needs, the tool facilitates both financial and energy-related benefits for individual users and the broader community.

On the platform, users can simulate the implementation of selected solutions by first completing a survey that captures key contextual information. Once the data is validated, users can choose a solution to explore. The tool then presents results through a set of technical, financial, and environmental key performance indicators. Each investment plan is saved to the user’s profile for future reference. Additionally, the platform features a “News and Facts” section, offering insights and practical tips to enhance energy efficiency.

Identify and recommend sustainable investment options at both the building and community levels.

All citizens looking for sustainable solutions for their household/community.

Available online through URL or COMMUNITAS Core Platform.

The EC Management Tool is a unified platform that supports both community managers and members by providing real-time visibility of an energy community’s performance, enabling data-driven management, and fostering engagement through gamification. It centralizes community metrics, streamlines updates, and empowers members to monitor their energy use, track collective impact, and participate in interactive challenges.

This platform aims to support the EC manager’s activities, presenting the whole community’s performance in one place: • Check the different parts that make the community in a visual dashboard. • Assess how the community is performing. • Edit the community’s information to keep it updated.

Additionally, this platform aims to inform, motivate and connect the EC members, combining data visualization with gamification and community-driven learning: • Monitor your energy performance. • Check your community's collective impact. • Compete with other members and other communities, completing quests and earning points.

EC managers, EC members

Available online through URL or COMMUNITAS Core Platform.

COMMUNITAS is an EU project that develops tools, guidelines, demonstrators, and digital solutions to place citizens and Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) at the core of the energy transition. It supports the digitalization, decarbonization, and democratization of local energy systems through practical instruments, methodologies, and real-life pilot cases.

Provide digital tools and methodologies to facilitate the creation and management of RECs.

Test solutions in real-life contexts to validate technical, social, and governance models.

Support replicability and scalability across EU countries and diverse regulatory environments.

Policy-makers, local authorities, energy aggregators, cooperatives, researchers, DSO/TSOs, and citizen/prosumer groups.

Public access via the official COMMUNITAS website, which provides open-access deliverables, digital tools, reports, and guidelines.

Hyllegaard Høje Energy Community consists of a low-temperature district heating network (so-called “thermal grid”) and solar panels, where the solar panels are installed on the shared buildings of Hyllegaard Høje. The Hyllegaard Høje Energy Communities supply the Hyllegaard Høje Co-Housing Community with renewable energy in the form of heating for the residential clusters via the thermal grid, and solar electricity for the shared areas and the heat pumps connected to the thermal network.

At each row house, consisting of 4–6 dwellings, solar electricity is produced on their rooftop and shared with the individual houses, while any remaining household electricity consumption is covered by the public grid.

A desire to establish an energy community that, through renewable energy, can make Hyllegaard Høje a sustainable community—both socially and technically.

Creation of an energy community.

The residents live in the energy community.

Web application supported by blockchain technology, which offers a suppervision of certificates for produced green energy in a Energy Community. Each certificate, called guarantee of origin, is the proof that an amount of energy has been produced by a green energy source during a period of time. The tool will support community stakeholders with the cycle of life of each energy and its sharing among them, all in a transparent and graphical way.

To increase the use of green energy.

To validate the green energy produced and consumed by the local community.

Stakeholders related to an Energy Community: managers, members, external producers and traders

It is a SaaS. Users are allowed to self create their accounts. Also, through the Communitas Core Platform interface.

Algorithm capable of disaggregating total power consumption into appliance-level consumption using AI models.

Provide with disaggregated information to the Demand Response tool in order to understand the behaviour patterns of each user and perform demand response campaigns. Also, provide this appliance-level consumption to the user for energy visibility.

private households, customers, end-users

A URL is available for accessing all the energy information at https://nilm-gui.k8s.etra-id.com/ and also for the demand response tool. Also, through the Communitas Core Platform interface.

Simulates different technology combinations and scenarios to help citizens design optimal energy communities before they are built.

Provide citizens with a perspective on the performance and impacts of an energy community, before its creation.

Stakeholders interested in creating energy communities.

Available online through URL or COMMUNITAS Core Platform.

Advanced optimization engines that manage distributed energy resources  in real-time to minimize costs or emissions.

Aid citizens reducing their energy bill and allocated emissions.

All citizens trying to optimize their electricity consumption or reduce their energy bill.

Available online through URL or COMMUNITAS Core Platform.

Provides users with suggestions to shift loads to increase savings, considering user preferences.

Aid citizens reducing their energy bill, by shifting their consumption to hours with local generation or lower prices.

All citizens trying to optimize their electricity consumption or reduce their energy bill.

Available online through URL or COMMUNITAS Core Platform.

Platform allows citizens to seek out and share knowledge about non-energy sustainable practices such as local sustainable businesses, waste management, and how to improve and maintain indoor environmental quality.

Provide citizens/EC members with additional information to improve their sustainability and quality of life beyond energy topics.

All citizens instrested in becoming more sustainable and living in a healthier environment.

Available online through URL or COMMUNITAS Core Platform.

A blockchain-enabled marketplace where community members can directly buy and sell energy from each other at fair market rates.

Create a marketplace for EC members to trade energy between each other.

EC members in communities with P2P model.

Available online through URL or COMMUNITAS Core Platform.

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DATA CELLAR aims to create a federated energy dataspace that will support the creation, development and management of local energy communities in the EU.

The data space population will be facilitated via an innovative rewarded private metering approach, with a focus on an easy onboarding and interaction, guaranteeing a smooth integration with other EU energy data spaces, providing to LEC stakeholders services and tools for developing their activities.

Create a data space populated with energy community-related data, and provide a selection of services for them.

EC managers, EC members

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The European federation of citizen energy cooperatives. Comprises 1,900 European energy cooperatives, with 1,250,000 citizens involved.

Their objectives are:

- represent the voices of citizens and energy cooperatives to European policy makers;

- support starting and established energy cooperatives and provide them with tools and contacts to help them grow and prosper;

- facilitate international exchanges and cooperation between energy cooperatives

- promote the cooperative business model in the energy sector

Their website contains links for the majority of the associated energy cooperatives around Europe. Several of them are energy communities.

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The focus of LocalRES is on Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) as main actors to lead the structural change towards the decarbonisation of the local energy systems through the involvement and awareness-raising of citizens and communities. LocalRES will develop a planning tool oriented to enable citizen participation in the REC planning decision-making processes, and a Multi-Energy Virtual Power Plant (MEVPP) approach to optimize in real time different energy vectors and different energy and flexibility services provided by the REC according to their community preferences.

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EC managers, EC members

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The Core of the ACCEPT project is the concept of “energy communities” with the collective approach to bring citizens, local businesses and organizations together, to produce and consume locally generated, renewable energy. The EU-funded project intends to develop and deliver a digital toolbox, that allows such energy communities to offer innovative digital services to reduce the dependency on fossil fuels, save energy in the users households and thus be able to reduce their electricity bill without compromising the quality of living, but ideally increasing the comfort in their homes through smart devices. In ACCEPT, these developed tools will be demonstrated and validated in four pilot sites in Greece, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland involving more than 3.000 people and 750 residences.

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EC managers, EC members

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The COMPILE project's goal is to foster the development of local energy systems and boost the use of local energy sources through innovative storage solutions supported by new organisational measures and business models. COMPILE project aims to activate and use local energy systems in order to support the fast growth of energy production from renewable energy sources (RES) in constrained networks, and foster the transition from centralised system with passive users into a flexible network of active users forming energy communities. This transformation aims to enhance RES integration and increase the security of supply, without the need to reinforce traditional networks.

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Enercade (Italian start-up based in Turin) provides a digital platform dedicated to the planning, management, monitoring, and social engagement of Renewable Energy Communities (RECs). The platform integrates energy data visualization, a REC simulator, regulatory guidance, and IoT-based measurement devices to optimize production and sharing among members.

Enable the establishment and operational management of RECs, including statutes, documentation, and administrative procedures.

Provide digital tools for monitoring, optimization, and gamified engagement.

Offer a digital marketplace connecting producers, consumers, and investors.

Municipalities, REC managers, cooperatives, ESCOs, SMEs, and citizens interested in creating or joining a REC.

Commercial service: users can access via Enercade’s website or app; includes consulting, project design, metering devices, and full support for GSE registration and compliance.

Enel Energia promotes a free-access commercial offer for customers wishing to join or establish Renewable Energy Communities (RECs). It provides consulting, administrative support, and an incentive/bonus mechanism linked to shared renewable energy generation. The service is designed for citizens, condominiums, and small businesses seeking to participate in collective self-consumption schemes.

Simplify the process for citizens and businesses to join or create RECs.

Offer turnkey management and administrative support.

Promote renewable self-consumption and the local energy transition.

Residential users, condominiums, SMEs, public administrations, and local authorities.

Access via Enel Energia’s dedicated REC webpage, online registration form, and customer support.

The Italian Energy Services Operator (GSE) provides digital tools for renewable energy plant monitoring, including the “Performance Impianti” and “Alerting” platforms. These services allow operators to analyze energy production, detect anomalies, and optimize performance. The platforms are widely used by REC managers for assessing the energy flows and efficiency of photovoltaic systems linked to collective self-consumption.

Improve energy efficiency and reliability of renewable energy systems.

Enable comparative and geo-analytical performance analysis.

Support reliable data exchange and transparency for REC operations.

Plant owners, maintenance operators, REC managers, installers, and researchers.

Access through the GSE online portal (authenticated service). Documentation and guides are publicly available.