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The CITIZENERGY Platform

The CITIZENERGY – European Citizens for Renewables project will create a new European online platform for citizen investments in renewable energy source (RES) projects. Within this, CITIZENERGY will respond to the variety of needs of both RES promoters and potential citizen investors. Its goal is to boost effective citizen engagement and investment in renewable energies, and to set up a European network on citizen RES policy, bringing together relevant citizen energy initiatives. The CITIZENERGY project will promote synergies between projects and the European transfer of key RES business models. It will identify barriers to citizen investment and match citizen investors with new RES projects in Europe.

To this end, the CITIZENERGY project partners will identify the major barriers to engagement and investment, and lobby for favourable framework conditions. Right now, the very success of the renewable energies is provoking disadvantageous political reactions with regard to feed-in regulations and industrial framework conditions, for instance. The CITIZENERGY partners will therefore work towards a secure energy future and the EU 20-20-20 energy goals, anticipating a common EU framework for citizen investment as well as supporting a culture of long-term investment and the creation of green jobs in Europe.

The CITIZENERGY platform, which will be developed by Ateknea Solutions, will be tested with the help of six pilot RES projects in Germany, Spain, France, Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom. It is expected to raise 14.6 million euros by 2017, representing 6,000 citizen investments from ten European member states.