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Funded by: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Funding Programme: Interreg Europe
Programming Period: 2021-2027
Project Title: SHAring REnewable energy through energy communitieS
Acronym: ShareRES
Duration:
Core Phase: 01/03/2023 – 28/02/2026 (36 months)
Follow up Phase: 01/03/2026 – 28/02/2027 (12 months)
Closure Phase: 01/03/2027 – 31/05/2027 (3 months)
Total Budget: €1.407.400

Partnership:

  1. Consortium Extremadura Energy Agency (Spain) – Lead Partner
  2. Riga Planning Region (Latvia)
  3. Donegal County Council (Ireland)
  4. Alba Iulia Municipality (Romania)
  5. Nicosia Development Agency (Cyprus)
  6. BSC, Business support centre L.t.d., Kranj (Slovenia)

Project Description:

The involvement of citizens and communities is vital to successfully achieve a clean energy transition. Although it is recognized that community energy projects have significant social, economic and environmental benefits, citizens around Europe are still facing many challenges. Legal restrictions, administrative burdens and punitive tariffs are just some of the obstacles and barriers currently faced. The main objective of ShareRES is to improve the policies that enable an active participation of citizen communities in the energy market by generating, consuming, sharing and selling electricity; as well as providing flexibility to the grid through demand-response and storage. These improvements will achieve a democratic, sustainable and inclusive energy system, in which energy communities will be key for the energy transition. Among the project’s results will be the development of collective and citizen-led initiatives, the increase in public acceptance of renewable projects and the attraction of private investment. Among the benefits and territorial impacts for the regions are the increase in energy efficiency, the reduction of energy costs and, most importantly, the creation of local jobs. ShareRES will analyse policies and provide insights for policy-makers in 6 EU regions: Riga Region (Latvia) in the North; Donegal County (Ireland) in the West; Gorenjska (Slovenia) and Alba Iulia (Romania) in the East; and Nicosia (Cyprus) and Extremadura (Spain) in the South of Europe.

For more information: https://www.interregeurope.eu/shareres