Kääpa (EE)
Building an energy community around several needs at once. Kääpa küla is a small village of around 170 inhabitants in Mustvee vald, Estonia. Its energy community, structured as a municipal foundation, plans for six members, with electricity consumed across three...Obinitsa (EE)
How a cold-storage electricity bill became a working energy cooperative. Energiaühistu Oma Elekter is a cooperative based in Obinitsa, in Setomaa vald in southeastern Estonia, just a few kilometers from the Estonian-Russian border. Its 15 members include local berry...Grebo (SE)
Showing a grounded picture of what it takes to move from curiosity to collective action. The Grebo Energy Community initiative is a non-profit effort exploring collaboration between the municipality and private actors in the village of Grebo, located between Linköping...Facetten (SE)
Testing municipal-business collaboration and shared meter structures in a historic industrial site. The Facetten Energy Community is an economic association whose members include the municipality and nine tenant companies of the Facetten Business Park building,...
Kääpa energy community grows through patience, trust and local leadership
The idea for the Kääpa energy community emerged through the Smart Villages development programme, where local people, the municipality and energy experts discussed the village’s future needs. The first discussions were followed by meetings in Kääpa with...
From concept to practice: REDIRECT tests its tools with stakeholders
Over the past months, REDIRECT partners have been developing a set of practical resources intended to support different tourism actors in working with regenerative tourism. As the project progresses, attention is increasingly turning to how these...
Stockholm as a Leading Digital Creative Hub
Our Project Partner Stockhom Business Region has published a deep diving report on Stokcholm’s position as a leading digital and creative hub, with – aligning with the REAVES objective – a particular focus on the music, film, and video game...
Reflecting on the progress of the Enercracy project
As the Enercracy project reaches its midpoint, we want to reflect on how its progress has affected the municipalities participating in it. To do so, we asked a series of questions to the representatives of Karlskrona municipality in Sweden (project partner) and...