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Do you need some practical guidance on new ways to support people in energy poverty?

Energy poverty has a number of drivers and causes, which can be context specific, differing between countries and regions. One option to combat the structural causes is having energy market players with a social agenda.

Social Energy Market Players offer energy services designed in a way as to provide long-term and permanent solutions to local energy market failures, such as energy poverty and/or low investments in renewable energy. This means their mission goes beyond one-off or temporary energy poverty mitigation measures. Social Energy Market Players can take various forms, including fully or partially owned municipal energy providers, citizen-led energy cooperatives and targeted mitigation mechanisms.
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This is the place where you can find in the coming months several useful tools for city administrations wanting to create energy market players with a social impact.

📥• Guidelines on engagement with vulnerable households (September 2022): a practical guide and toolkit for practitioners looking to engage not only vulnerable households in social energy projects, but other partners and stakeholders as well.

📥• Guidelines on RES production business case: how to do, what to take into account (December 2023)

Watch out for resources to come:

• 6 national guides for a step-by-step approach to set up social energy market players tackling energy poverty;
• Brochure on setting up social energy market players.

Browse our Library for more resources on tackling energy poverty through economic service models

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant agreement No. 101033940

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