Name
Plymouth Energy Community
country
United Kingdom
Goal
To increase local ownership and influence over local energy solutions
To increase community confidence to engage in energy issues
To enable people to heat and power their homes affordably
To reduce greenhouse gas emissions
To ensure these activities benefit the fuel poor and most vulnerable
To bring local people and organisations together to tackle fuel poverty and the climate crisis.
Main Topic
Renovating homes: building and renovating in an energy- and resource-efficient way
All Topics
Clean energy: supplying clean, affordable and secure energy
Renovating homes: building and renovating in an energy- and resource-efficient way
Financing the transition (i.e. it facilitates and/or stimulates public and private investments needed for the transition to a climate-neutral, green, competitive and inclusive economy)
Fostering a just transition: leaving no one behind (fostering i.e. inclusivity, equity, empowerment of marginalized communities or other goals regarding justice)
Scale
- City and peri-urban
Actors
- Community-based initiative (i.e. citizens, cooperative, neighbourhood group)
- Non-profit organisation (i.e. pursues a particular social cause, e.g. schools, foundations, social movement)
- Social enterprise (i.e. for-profit company, but has primary objective to achieve social and/or ecological benefits)
Main Activity
(Re-)selling goods and/or facilitating good exchanges
Activities
- Not specified
Source
This initiative was provided by the SGD consortium.
This initiative is self-reported and not identified by the SHARED GREEN DEAL Consortium
CONTACT
For further details please contact co-leads Dr Chris Foulds (chris.foulds@aru.ac.uk) and Dr Rosie Robison (rosie.robison@aru.ac.uk).
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101036640. The sole responsibility for the content of this website lies with the SHARED GREEN DEAL HAS project and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union.