REScoop.eu
REScoop.eu
REScoop.eu is the European federation for renewable energy cooperatives.
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Lobbying Activity
Response to Commission Communication – "Renovation wave" initiative for the building sector
8 Jun 2020
We welcome the European Commission’s Renovation Wave for Public and Private Buildings (Renovation Wave). Nevertheless, we would like to highlight several points that we would like DG Energy to consider further as it moves forward with this initiative. In this regard, we are currently running a project in partnership with the European Climate Foundation and the Coalition for Energy Savings, looking to scale the creation of citizen-led renovation programs in cooperatives across Europe. Following preliminary research on collective actions on building renovation in the cooperative movement, REScoop.eu now looks to replicate successful experiences and adapt the concept of citizen-led renovation across Member States. We look forward to providing input from these activities to DG Energy as it moves forward with the Renovation Wave Initiative. Please find our views in the attached file.
Read full responseResponse to Strategy for smart sector integration
8 Jun 2020
We welcome the Commission’s ambition to establish a smart sector integration strategy as a way to achieve Europe’s long-term decarbonization objectives. We believe that a citizen-centred approach, whereby individual citizens and communities can take ownership and participate, are necessary preconditions for a successful clean energy transition. As such, we would like to highlight the role that communities can play in sector integration, as well as identify some challenges and opportunities the Commission should consider addressing as it moves forward with developing a Smart Sector Integration Strategy. Please find our views in the attached file.
Read full response7 Mar 2019
REScoop.eu is a European federation that represents local citizen-owned cooperatives and energy initiatives, now recognised as ‘citizens energy communities’ (CECs) and ‘renewable energy communities’ (RECs) by the Clean Energy for All Europeans (CEP) Package. We currently represent around 1,500 of these energy communities across 13 different Member States. These energy communities operate across the energy system, from generation and supply of renewable energy to performance of energy efficiency services, heat and electricity distribution, electric mobility, demand response, and other activities involving flexibility. Almost all of our members are small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
We would like to respond to the Roadmaps that were released by DG Competition, namely on:
1) the Fitness check of State aid rules; and
2) the Prolongation of the State aid rules reformed under the State aid modernization (SAM) package and expiring by the end of 2020.
In the attached document, we would like to highlight several points that we intend to expand upon as DG Competition’s Fitness Check of State aid rules continues. In this regard, we are currently putting together data on our members experience with the existing Energy and Environmental Aid Guidelines (EEAG). We look forward to providing this data to DG Competition as it conducts a Fitness Check of the EEAG.
Read full response7 Mar 2019
REScoop.eu is a European federation that represents local citizen-owned cooperatives and energy initiatives, now recognised as ‘citizens energy communities’ (CECs) and ‘renewable energy communities’ (RECs) by the Clean Energy for All Europeans (CEP) Package. We currently represent around 1,500 of these energy communities across 13 different Member States. These energy communities operate across the energy system, from generation and supply of renewable energy to performance of energy efficiency services, heat and electricity distribution, electric mobility, demand response, and other activities involving flexibility. Almost all of our members are small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
We would like to respond to the Roadmaps that were released by DG Competition, namely on:
1) the Fitness check of State aid rules; and
2) the Prolongation of the State aid rules reformed under the State aid modernization (SAM) package and expiring by the end of 2020.
In the attached document, we would like to highlight several points that we intend to expand upon as DG Competition’s Fitness Check of State aid rules continues. In this regard, we are currently putting together data on our members experience with the existing Energy and Environmental Aid Guidelines (EEAG). We look forward to providing this data to DG Competition as it conducts a Fitness Check of the EEAG.
Read full response