Community Energy Coalition: energy communities for the just energy transition

Community Energy Coalition: why was the Community Energy Coalition you may ask yourself? Well for promoting community energy and more specifically the energy communities in our areasIn order to make energy a right and not a market good, they try to democratize energy in this way and give it back to the citizens. And it is clear that we are stronger together.

It is nothing new that the current energy model is in the hands of large companies that profit at the expense of the well-being of the population and our environment and climate. Therefore, they consider it essential to propose an alternative to the current system. . We have to go to one energy transition based on sources renewable energy, where its management is in the hands of the people, and we must promote that Community energy.

For this purpose the Community Energy Coalition and now they’ve launched their own web. They form a plural and inclusive space in which initiatives from energy communities, entities, groups and organizations work together with the common goal of achieving an equitable energy transformationtowards a future of 100% by renewable energy in the hands of people and communities who are confronted with the climate change.

They are pushing to shut down big business and stop the citizenship in the center of the energy transition. They fight for citizens’ right to energy and to remove the barriers that stand in the way of their fair participation.

They believe in social participation: it is the citizens who decide how, where, how much and what type of energy they use. Through local community projects, we challenge the energy oligopoly and promote energy democratization.

Energy communities for the fair energy transition

Are the energy communities the agents of change needed to achieve energy transformation. Groups of people coming together manage, produce and consume your own sustainable energy. Son energy communities based on decentralization and participatory democracy, which show that the energy system can be changed and is no longer dependent on multinationals, we give power back to the people and fight against climate change.

Of the Community Energy Coalition They believe that one fair energy transition based on sources renewable energy and faced with the climate change. a fair energy transition where the decentralization of energy and citizen participation is the first step to achieve a real transformation of the energy model.