Support services for energy communities
LIFE-2025-CET-ENERCOM
Funding Amount
Amount not specified
Deadline
23/09/2025
Eligible Organization Types
Non-profit, Public Institution, Other
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What is the Support services for energy communities Call?
Grant Description
This call supports the establishment or expansion of tailored services that facilitate the set-up and growth of renewable energy communities and citizen energy communities by overcoming regulatory, financial and organisational hurdles. Funded activities include direct technical assistance, personalised advice on finance, business models, legal and operational phases, peer-to-peer support, capacity building and mutualised services delivered by local or regional authorities, energy agencies or umb...
Required Results for Successful Funding
Expected Outcomes
By project end and five years post-closure, quantified impacts including:
• Number of energy community support services fully implemented, operational and tested (triggering first investments).
• Number of energy communities (new and existing) benefitting from services.
• In-person support provided (full-time equivalent person-months).
• Number of new RECs and CECs established.
• Number of citizens or organisations joining energy communities.
• Number and types of stakeholders with increased skills.
• Number of local/regional authorities committed to replicate best practices.
• Number of groupings of energy communities mutualising services.
• Primary and final energy savings (GWh/year).
• Renewable energy generation triggered (GWh/year by technology).
• Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (t CO₂-eq/year).
• Investments in sustainable energy triggered (cumulative EUR million).
• Evidence of service model replication, strengthened local capacity and long-term sustainability of support services.
• Number of energy community support services fully implemented, operational and tested (triggering first investments).
• Number of energy communities (new and existing) benefitting from services.
• In-person support provided (full-time equivalent person-months).
• Number of new RECs and CECs established.
• Number of citizens or organisations joining energy communities.
• Number and types of stakeholders with increased skills.
• Number of local/regional authorities committed to replicate best practices.
• Number of groupings of energy communities mutualising services.
• Primary and final energy savings (GWh/year).
• Renewable energy generation triggered (GWh/year by technology).
• Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (t CO₂-eq/year).
• Investments in sustainable energy triggered (cumulative EUR million).
• Evidence of service model replication, strengthened local capacity and long-term sustainability of support services.
Funded areas
Scope Requirements
• Focus on establishing or expanding support services for RECs under Directive 2018/2001 and/or CECs under Directive 2019/944.
• Clearly identify and justify the entity(ies) delivering the services.
• Provide direct, personalised technical support (not generic info or online-only tools) through all project phases (finance, business model, legal, commercial, operational).
• Detail service design, staffing, communication channels, physical presence (fixed or temporary), and how services address specific local/regional challenges (e.g. DSOs cooperation, rural depopulation, renovation needs, energy vulnerability, SME cooperation).
• Demonstrate stakeholder support via consortium membership or involvement strategy (especially local/regional authorities).
• Define outreach and engagement strategies tailored to territory and diverse membership.
• Include a training and capacity-building plan outlining objectives, content and target groups.
• Present a plan for service continuity beyond project lifetime.
• Analyse current community development in target areas; prioritise less developed geographies or underrepresented activities (community heating/cooling, citizen-led renovation, flexibility).
• Ensure complementarity with existing national enabling frameworks, local support, and EU resources (European Energy Communities Facility, Citizen Energy Advisory Hub).
• Clearly identify and justify the entity(ies) delivering the services.
• Provide direct, personalised technical support (not generic info or online-only tools) through all project phases (finance, business model, legal, commercial, operational).
• Detail service design, staffing, communication channels, physical presence (fixed or temporary), and how services address specific local/regional challenges (e.g. DSOs cooperation, rural depopulation, renovation needs, energy vulnerability, SME cooperation).
• Demonstrate stakeholder support via consortium membership or involvement strategy (especially local/regional authorities).
• Define outreach and engagement strategies tailored to territory and diverse membership.
• Include a training and capacity-building plan outlining objectives, content and target groups.
• Present a plan for service continuity beyond project lifetime.
• Analyse current community development in target areas; prioritise less developed geographies or underrepresented activities (community heating/cooling, citizen-led renovation, flexibility).
• Ensure complementarity with existing national enabling frameworks, local support, and EU resources (European Energy Communities Facility, Citizen Energy Advisory Hub).
Additional Conditions for Applicants
Special Conditions
• Consortia must include at least three independent beneficiaries from three different eligible countries.
• Funding rate: 95% of eligible costs.
• Indicative EU contribution up to EUR 1.75 million (other amounts allowed).
• Proposals must comply with page limits and layout rules (Part B of the Application Form) and admissibility, eligibility, financial/operational capacity, exclusion criteria (call document Sections 5–7).
• Evaluation, award criteria, scoring thresholds and grant MGA conditions apply (Sections 4, 8–10; LIFE Regulation 2021/783; EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509).
• Development of new tools, databases or platforms is not expected and only allowed if added value and potential for scale-up beyond the project are clearly justified.
• Proposals must demonstrate complementarity to existing tools and networks and avoid duplication.
• Funding rate: 95% of eligible costs.
• Indicative EU contribution up to EUR 1.75 million (other amounts allowed).
• Proposals must comply with page limits and layout rules (Part B of the Application Form) and admissibility, eligibility, financial/operational capacity, exclusion criteria (call document Sections 5–7).
• Evaluation, award criteria, scoring thresholds and grant MGA conditions apply (Sections 4, 8–10; LIFE Regulation 2021/783; EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509).
• Development of new tools, databases or platforms is not expected and only allowed if added value and potential for scale-up beyond the project are clearly justified.
• Proposals must demonstrate complementarity to existing tools and networks and avoid duplication.
Important dates
Open from: 24/04/2025
Deadline:23/09/2025
Application period has ended
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