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REScoop: Guide for Stakeholder Management

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What is REScoop?

REScoops are energy cooperatives, a business model where citizens jointly own and participate in renewable energy or energy efficiency projects. We also refer to REScoops as citizen or renewable energy communities. REScoops do not necessarily have the legal statute of a cooperative, but they distinguish themselves by the way they do business.

The objective of the REScoop Action Guide is to highlight and explore the options for taking actions and setting up mechanisms in the development and operating phases of RES cooperative projects in order to engage citizens. But the aim of the REScoop Action Guide is not to give recipes to help to set up and develop RES projects from scratch; this kind of guides and toolkits already exist. Starting from practical experiences and best practices, the idea is rather to design an “illustrated catalogue” of possible mechanisms, tools and actions on which REScoops, local communities and local authorities can draw to help citizens to join and get involved in RES cooperative projects.

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Scale of implementation

REScoops tend to implement bottom-up and collective dynamics based on the active participation of citizens and the involvement of multiple stakeholders (local authorities, local economic players, other cooperatives, etc.).

 

Type

The REScoop Action Guide  is a free access pdf file, that can be downloaded through a web browser.

 

Phase of solution

The objective of the REScoop Action Guide is to highlight and explore the options for taking actions and setting up mechanisms in the development and operating phases of RES cooperative projects in order to engage citizens.

 

Target audience

The REScoop Action Guide is targeted to REScoop initiators, local community leaders, local authorities, policy makers and regulators, to help them find answers regarding how to encourage citizens to join and get involved in REScoops.

Key features-functionality

The key elements of The REScoop ACTION GUIDE Guide can be summarized as follows:

  1. The initial segment defines the preliminary measures and questions necessary to initiate a REScoop, encompassing the fundamental aspects of self-identification and collective objectives. These include reflective assessments on the group's identity and the shared aspirations that bind its members.

  2. The subsequent part encompasses a comprehensive inventory of processes, techniques, and activities. It is organized according to five distinct aspects that offer opportunities for citizen engagement: governance and organizational design, finance, production, consumption, and involvement and empowerment. Each mechanism or instrument that has been found is exemplified via actual experiences and best practices, while also taking into account the question of its applicability in all national settings.

  3. Overall, the conclusion revolves on a set of principles that should govern the establishment of procedures, instruments, and initiatives aimed at promoting public engagement.

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