BECoop

While community energy is about to play a huge role for the future energy transition, bioenergy has a very slow development in decentralised energy production. BECoop’s ambition is to foster a broad deployment of bioenergy technologies in the heating sector across Europe by providing all necessary conditions and support tools to unlock the underlying market potential of community bioenergy.
By using BECoop support services and tools, energy communities and authorities will be able to (i) mobilize citizens around existing or new community bioenergy initiatives, (ii) boost local bioenergy demand by improving its image and social acceptance, and (iii) increase feasibility of their endeavours by identifying suitable technical, business and financial solutions, as well as by pooling expertise and partnerships from the wider EU bioenergy ecosystem.

In order to showcase the approach and build trust, 4 pilot cases across Europe will target existing energy communities seeking to include bioenergy heating projects, and localational authorities aiming at initiating novel bioenergy community structures in support of their clean energy transition goals.
BECoop moves beyond local challenges: the concept will be replicated to more EU cases, thus improving the robustness and attractiveness of community bioenergy investments. BECoop will also create links between the international Bioenergy Community, increase its audience and foster new partnerships. Relevant policy and regulatory structures will be empowered with empirical evidence indicating ways to transfer the community energy approach in bioenergy and heating. The project is backed by a multidisciplinary consortium covering all relevant stakeholders and knowledge requirements. It also includes key stakeholders considered natural recipients of the results (existing energy communities, RESCoop Federations and localational authorities).

Duration: November 2020 - October 2023