Empowering local communities to engage in energy transition

As renewable energy production grows, so does the potential of prosumers: citizens who both produce and consume energy. Drawing on the Interreg NWE cVPP project, Anna J Wieczorek will present how community-based virtual power plants (cVPPs) can speed up the energy transition to a sustainable and just future. This social and technical innovation was developed and tested in 3 communities in Ireland, the Netherlands and Belgium, and 9 other communities were supported in developing their own cVPP in the capitalisation phase of the project. Discover how a group of actively involved citizens can work together to generate clean energy consumed, stored and sold locally.