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It is important for designing, implementing, and maintaining energy systems within an EC. This includes expertise in renewable energy technologies, energy systems design, and the use of management tools to optimize operations.
COMMUNITAS project promotes energy citizenship and empowering citizens to take control of their own sustainability journey by becoming active participants in energy markets. The project will provide a set of innovative tools to unlock citizen participation in energy markets and communities.
Covers technical approaches, best practices, and lessons learned from other EU-funded projects related to Energy Communities.
KEYWORDS
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Investment Plan
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Sustainable Solutions
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Energy Community
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Citizen Empowerment
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EC Management
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EC Performance
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Gamification
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Keyword 4
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Data space
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energy management
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Keyword 1
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Keyword 2
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Keyword 3
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Renewable Energy Communities
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digital tools
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energy participation
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prosumer
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governance models
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demonstration sites
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REC platform
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monitoring
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gamification
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IoT
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energy marketplace
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GSE support
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community engagement
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Enel CER
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commercial offer
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collective self-consumption
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renewable energy sharing
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bonus scheme
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REC engagement
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GSE
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performance
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alerting
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data analytics
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photovoltaics
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REC optimization
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Photovoltaics
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Thermo grid
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Legislative barriers
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Green Energy
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Energy Communities
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Guarantees of Origin
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NILM
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Energy
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Disaggregation
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Summary: <p>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.</p><p>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.</p>
Main objectives: <p>Identify and recommend sustainable investment options at both the building and community levels.</p>
Focus group: <p>All citizens looking for sustainable solutions for their household/community.</p>
How to apply: <p>Available online through URL or COMMUNITAS Core Platform.</p>
Useful links
https://energycommunityadvisor.eu/InvestmentAdvisor/
Related to:
Investment Plan ; Sustainable Solutions ; Energy Community ; Citizen Empowerment
Date: 24/02/2026
Summary: <p>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.</p>
Main objectives: <p>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.</p><p>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.</p>
Focus group: <p>EC managers, EC members</p>
How to apply: <p>Available online through URL or COMMUNITAS Core Platform.</p>
Useful links
https://energycommunityadvisor.eu/CommunityManagement
Related to:
EC Management ; EC Performance ; Citizen Empowerment ; Gamification
Date: 24/02/2026
Summary: <p>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.</p>
Main objectives: <p>Provide digital tools and methodologies to facilitate the creation and management of RECs.</p><p>Test solutions in real-life contexts to validate technical, social, and governance models.</p><p>Support replicability and scalability across EU countries and diverse regulatory environments.</p>
Focus group: <p>Policy-makers, local authorities, energy aggregators, cooperatives, researchers, DSO/TSOs, and citizen/prosumer groups.</p>
How to apply: <p>Public access via the official COMMUNITAS website, which provides open-access deliverables, digital tools, reports, and guidelines.</p>
Useful links
https://communitas-project.eu/
Related to:
Renewable Energy Communities ; digital tools ; energy participation ; prosumer ; governance models ; demonstration sites
Date: 24/02/2026
Summary: <p>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.</p><p>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.</p>
Main objectives: <p>A desire to establish an energy community that, through renewable energy, can make Hyllegaard Høje a sustainable community—both socially and technically.</p>
Focus group: <p>Creation of an energy community.</p>
How to apply: <p>The residents live in the energy community.</p>
Useful links
Related to:
Digital Toolbox and Approach for Empowering Renewable Energy Communities
Photovoltaics ; Thermo grid ; Legislative barriers
Date: 24/02/2026
Summary: <p>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.</p>
Main objectives: <p>To increase the use of green energy.</p><p>To validate the green energy produced and consumed by the local community.</p>
Focus group: <p>Stakeholders related to an Energy Community: managers, members, external producers and traders</p>
How to apply: <p>It is a SaaS. Users are allowed to self create their accounts. Also, through the Communitas Core Platform interface.</p>
Useful links
https://communitas-project.eu/about/key-tools/
Related to:
Green Energy ; Energy Communities ; Guarantees of Origin
Date: 24/02/2026
Summary: <p>Algorithm capable of disaggregating total power consumption into appliance-level consumption using AI models.</p>
Main objectives: <p>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.</p>
Focus group: <p>private households, customers, end-users</p>
How to apply: <p>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.</p>
Useful links
https://nilm-gui.k8s.etra-id.com/
Related to:
NILM ; Energy ; Disaggregation
Date: 24/02/2026
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Useful links
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Keyword 4
Date: 24/02/2026
Summary: <p>DATA CELLAR aims to create a federated energy dataspace that will support the creation, development and management of local energy communities in the EU.</p><p>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.</p>
Main objectives: <p>Create a data space populated with energy community-related data, and provide a selection of services for them.</p>
Focus group: <p>EC managers, EC members</p>
How to apply: <p>TBD</p>
Useful links
Related to:
Data space ; energy management
Date: 24/02/2026
Summary: <p>The European federation of citizen energy cooperatives. Comprises 1,900 European energy cooperatives, with 1,250,000 citizens involved.</p><p>Their objectives are:</p><p>- represent the voices of citizens and energy cooperatives to European policy makers;</p><p>- support starting and established energy cooperatives and provide them with tools and contacts to help them grow and prosper;</p><p>- facilitate international exchanges and cooperation between energy cooperatives</p><p>- promote the cooperative business model in the energy sector</p><p>Their website contains links for the majority of the associated energy cooperatives around Europe. Several of them are energy communities.</p>
Main objectives: <p>TBD</p>
Focus group: <p>TBD</p>
How to apply: <p>TBD</p>
Useful links
Related to:
Keyword 1
Date: 24/02/2026
Summary: <p>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.</p>
Main objectives: <p>TBD</p>
Focus group: <p>EC managers, EC members</p>
How to apply: <p>TBD</p>
Useful links
Related to:
Keyword 2
Date: 24/02/2026
Summary: <p>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.</p>
Main objectives: <p>TBD</p>
Focus group: <p>EC managers, EC members</p>
How to apply: <p>TBD</p>
Useful links
https://www.accept-project.eu/
Related to:
Keyword 3
Date: 24/02/2026
Summary: <p>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.</p>
Main objectives: <p>TBD</p>
Focus group: <p>TBD</p>
How to apply: <p>TBD</p>
Useful links
https://www.compile-project.eu/
Related to:
Keyword 1
Date: 24/02/2026
Summary: <p>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.</p>
Main objectives: <p>Enable the establishment and operational management of RECs, including statutes, documentation, and administrative procedures.</p><p>Provide digital tools for monitoring, optimization, and gamified engagement.</p><p>Offer a digital marketplace connecting producers, consumers, and investors.</p>
Focus group: <p>Municipalities, REC managers, cooperatives, ESCOs, SMEs, and citizens interested in creating or joining a REC.</p>
How to apply: <p>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.</p>
Useful links
Related to:
REC platform ; monitoring ; gamification ; IoT ; energy marketplace ; GSE support ; community engagement
Date: 24/02/2026
Summary: <p>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.</p>
Main objectives: <p>Simplify the process for citizens and businesses to join or create RECs.</p><p>Offer turnkey management and administrative support.</p><p>Promote renewable self-consumption and the local energy transition.</p>
Focus group: <p>Residential users, condominiums, SMEs, public administrations, and local authorities.</p>
How to apply: <p>Access via Enel Energia’s dedicated REC webpage, online registration form, and customer support.</p>
Useful links
https://www.enel.it/it-it/comunita-energetiche
Related to:
Enel CER ; commercial offer ; collective self-consumption ; renewable energy sharing ; bonus scheme ; REC engagement
Date: 24/02/2026
Summary: <p>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.</p>
Main objectives: <p>Improve energy efficiency and reliability of renewable energy systems.</p><p>Enable comparative and geo-analytical performance analysis.</p><p>Support reliable data exchange and transparency for REC operations.</p>
Focus group: <p>Plant owners, maintenance operators, REC managers, installers, and researchers.</p>
How to apply: <p>Access through the GSE online portal (authenticated service). Documentation and guides are publicly available.</p>
Useful links
Related to:
GSE ; monitoring ; performance ; alerting ; data analytics ; photovoltaics ; REC optimization
Date: 24/02/2026
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