This report by Ami Crowther and Saska Petrova from the University of Manchester outlines the activities undertaken in each of the locations involved in the POWER UP project, namely Valencia (Spain), Rožnov pod Radhoštěm (Czechia), Eeklo (Belgium), Campania Region (Italy), Heerlen (The Netherlands), and the municipalities of Centar (Skopje), Valandovo and Shtip in North Macedonia.
The first chapter of the report provides an introductory overview of the activities undertaken throughout the POWER UP project. This part of the report is written in English, and for each of the POWER UP locations, the local context and the activities undertaken as part of the project are detailed in the local languages. The remaining chapters (Chapters 2 – 7) are National Guides for replication of the six locations involved in the POWER UP project.
Each National Guide presents the context for energy communities, energy sharing, local social energy business models, opportunities and challenges associated with the development of alternative social business models, and a flow chart showing the process for designing and implementing these business models.
The aim of the National Guides is to support interested stakeholders (such as cities, municipalities, citizens and citizen energy communities, and municipal companies) to develop a social energy model by following the activities developed as part of the POWER UP project.
Due to the geographically-embedded nature of the National Guides, and to support the accessibility of these national guides for their intended audience, each guide is written in the local language of the location where the POWER UP activities were undertaken.
👉 You can find the place-specific guides on each of the separate pilot pages (Belgium, Czech Republic, Italy, Spain and The Netherlands)
