- As energy bills climb and fears grow that consumers will become unable to heat their homes, some are pointing to the EU’s newly-created “citizen energy communities” as a way of enabling entire neighbourhoods to produce their own electricity or insulate homes.
- One Cleanwatts project in Portugal aims at creating energy communities in 100 villages, focusing on vulnerable areas and ones with high levels of elderly people.
- On top of this, in its plan to ditch Russian gas, tabled in May 2022, the European Commission set out a target to have one renewable energy community per municipality with a population higher than 10,000 by 2025.
How community-led renewables could help solve the energy crisis
