ACCU project partners from Belgium, France and the Nethelands met on 20-21 February 2025 in Arnhem, one of the pilot cities, to kick off their project which will last until 2028.
The project objective is to set up three Local Energy Communities in Arnhem (the Netherlands), Bruges (Belgium) and Fourmies (France). These communities will be sharing locally produced renewable electricity and heat and storing local solar energy.
The reasons for doing so are unaffordable and unstable gas and oil prices, high infrastructure investments in distant energy generation and consumption locations, the mis-match between times in the day of local generation and consumption, resulting in energy being ‘lost’ to the grid with little or no benefit and growing resistance against commercial control of local generation assets and heating networks.
Local Energy Communities will maximise renewable energy generation in local ownership. Thanks to flexible energy assets, smart systems and
behaviour change, they will also maximise local energy consumption. Collective
management of local energy will ensure stakeholder buy-in for the energy
transition, stability of the electrical network and steady, affordable energy
prices preventing energy poverty.
ACCU activities: what results do we want to achieve?
ACCU project partners will do the research on the most effective social, organisational and techno-financial governance structure for different Local Energy Communities (LEC) situations, based on state-of-the-art projects.
LEC governance structures, stakeholder engagement processes and technological implementations will be then demonstrated and evaluated in 3 pilots with varying context, demography, situations and plans.
Project partners will prepare a report on the technical solutions tested in the ACCU pilots and their potential to be applied across North West Europe.
How can interested experts and organisations join ACCU activities?
From the start of the project, the project partners will organise Transnational workshop sessions with key stakeholders and Early Adopters to collect feedback on the ACCU activities, co-develop approaches and share learnings to enable post-project replication. These “Helpers” and “Early Adopters” will be invited to join the ACCU Learning Network (have a look at this section of the website to learn more about how to join).
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