EKOenergy, Finland The non-profit EKOenergy label (managed by the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation) helps consumers, large and small, switch to renewable energy and increase the positive impact of their
Greenpeace, WWF, Bond Beter Leef Milieu, Belgium “Offshore wind as a win-win for nature and climate: The Belgian Offshore Platform, an association of investors and owners of wind farms in the
CLERF, France The Béganne wind farm in South Brittany is an initiative of the local non-profit organisation “Éoliennes en Pays de Vilaine”. Around 1,000 local citizens have financed the project,
CLERF, France Parc Naturel Régional des Grands Causses (the Roquefort region in South of France), which combines energy ambition and local development very well. To sum up: after 15 years
Airclim, Sweden In 2002, wind power in Sweden and Norway was less than 0,5 TWh, far behind Denmark’s 4.4 TWh. A year later, green certificates were introduced. A growing percentage
Legambiente, Italy First renewable energy community in Italy: In the suburbs of Naples, precisely in the San Giovanni a Teduccio district, the first renewable and solidarity energy community has been
Legambiente, Italy The Wind Park Tourism project promotes the discovery of special territories through a guide to raise awareness of unique and little-known territories, that are today one of the
Onshore wind energy combating rural depopulation: In May 2021, the Spanish Wind Energy Association awarded the Eolo Prize for Rural Wind Integration to the municipality of Muras (Lugo), for being
Fundacion Renovables, Spain Photovoltaic solar energy for collective self-consumption with the innovative local energy communities: In Crevillent (Alicante) is one of spain’s driest places, vulnerable to the worsening impacts of
Ecounion, Spain Som Energia is the first renewable energy cooperative in Spain founded in 2010 and offers the opportunity for thousands of people to power their homes with locally-generated, clean,