Just Transition Platform Conference, April 2024 – Energy communities

The EU is increasingly recognising the crucial role that energy communities play in achieving the EU’s energy transition targets. With new/updated regulations, funds and support schemes becoming available, there is a clear momentum for stakeholders to take ownership for the effective implementation of energy and climate policies.

Various Just Transition Fund programmes show that regional and local governments are eager to take up this socially inclusive approach. In addition, they are taking advantage of the various technical support available for establishing energy communities through programmes such as GROUNDWORK, START, Cohesion4Transitions and TARGET.

This session of the Just Transition Platform Conference therefore served as a platform to exchange on challenges and best practices related to both developing and operating support schemes to establish energy communities and for planning, funding and launching energy communities across the EU. It aimed to inspire and further incentivise transition regions to adopt these place-based and people-centred solutions to accelerate the energy transition.

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