BECoop

Unlocking the community energy potential to support the market uptake of bioenergy heating technologies

November 2020 - October 2023

The ambition of BECoop (2020-2023), a project supported by the European Horizon 2020 programme, is to provide the necessary conditions, technical as well as business support tools, for unlocking the underlying market potential of community bioenergy, fostering new links and partnerships.

In the updated Renewable Energy Directive II (RED II), the EU clearly considers community energy as a key factor for future Renewable Energy (RE) market uptake and mandates Member States to implement regulatory frameworks for enabling and facilitating this process. At the same time, several barriers prevent citizens from becoming (bio)energy producers and bioenergy projects to be more appealing. Among others, lack of preparedness for communities to tap the full bioenergy market potential, lack of bioenergy stakeholders awareness of the potential of communities and missing/ unsupportive (local, regional and national) framework and policy conditions. For a people-powered energy system, the Horizon 2020-funded project BECoop (2020-2023) aims at putting communities in charge of their local renewable (bio)energy generation.

This project has received funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952930.

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Featured publications

May 31, 2023
Consumers and behavioural change Energy communities Efficient and resilient energy system Heating and cooling

A tour in the Northern Italian mountains, to learn more about sustainable biomass use

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Apr 04, 2023
Consumers and behavioural change Energy communities Energy poverty Renewables

The missing tool in tackling energy poverty: empowering renewable energy communities in the energy crisis mitigation

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Jan 20, 2023
Energy communities Heating and cooling Renewables

Briefing - More women in renewables and energy communities: safeguarding an enabling policy framework

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Nov 29, 2021
Energy communities Energy efficiency business models

A Business Model Fast Track on Energy Communities—Key Lessons Learned from H2020 EU Projects

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E-market

The tool aims to develop community bioenergy projects (connecting multiple biomass providers, organise billing, etc.) and defining the required services and activities for sup...

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Self-assessment tool

Earlier studies realised by BECoop, a project funded by the Horizon 2020 programme, showed that the knowledge and acceptance of biofuel varies from region to region in...

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Toolkit

Developed by CIRCE – Centro Tecnológico, this online repository gathers in a single place existing open-source tools useful for the energy communities and bioenergy sectors...

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