REScoop.eu

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REScoop.eu
Founded2011;14 years ago (2011)
Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium
FounderDirk Vansintjan
Type non-governmental organization
Purpose energy democracy, renewable energy, and cooperatives
HeadquartersBrussels, Belgium
Region served
Europe
Main organ
 Board of directors, elected by the Annual General Meeting
Website www.rescoop.eu

REScoop.eu is the European federation of renewable energy cooperatives, [1] founded in 2011.

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As of 1 February 2025, it had 121 member organisations (energy communities, regional federations or small businesses and associations) in 25 European countries, representing 2,500 individual REScoops and their 2 million citizens. [2]

On December 24, 2013, the European federation of groups and cooperatives of citizens for renewable energy (REScoop.EU) was legally established under Belgian national law with a European scope, to develop the activities of the federation and build a European renewable energy cooperative alliance. [3]

REScoop is a short term for Renewable Energy Source Cooperative. [4]

Positions and campaigns

REScoop.eu advocates for a decentralized, renewable, efficient, clean and sustainable energy system with citizens at its core, referring to the energy transition as “the energy transition to energy democracy”.

References

  1. ↑ "Rescoop.eu". European Commission Directorate-General for Energy: ManagEnergy Initiative. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
  2. ↑ "Rescoop.eu members".rescoop.eu
  3. ↑ "European federation | REScoop.eu". rescoop.eu. Archived from the original on 2014-03-15.
  4. ↑ "Renewable energy source cooperatives". University of Liege, Centre for Social Economy. 2010. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
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