- With sky-high energy prices driving many Europeans to look for alternatives to traditional providers, citizen-led green energy projects owned by the local population are pushing for a new format – though many face legal and practical difficulties.
- A renewable energy coordinator at Climate Action Network Europe, many governments have “either just copy-pasted the definitions from other countries or they have put definitions which do not really allow the energy communities to be formed”.
- This has implications for how the cooperative is able to operate within the country’s energy sector as being recognised as an energy community would give Coopernico additional rights and privileges under EU law.
Europe’s citizen-led energy revolution tangled in legal difficulties
