Incubating the next generation of community energy leaders
We are organising for an energy transition from the community level up. By centering people’s needs over external developers profits, we are supporting an already thriving movement in building a decentralized, socially just renewable energy transition and the direct local benefits it brings.
Community energy started as movement away from centralised power and privatisation of energy infrastructure. We exist to help bring movement and community together to repower ourselves and a new generation of energy leaders.
Energy bills through the roof.
Decisions made without you.
Wars on every screen.
Those in power call it security when they spend on weapons and walls.
To us security means being able to heat our homes, feed our families, and have a say over what gets built in our communities.
We are building power by organising with communities to reclaim energy sovereignty. This way, we resist their wars for resources and the land grabbing of multinationals for profit.
Some renewables are being built wrong
- and it’s fueling those wanting to stop the energy transition
Renewable infrastructure is essential to ensure secure and affordable energy, but so are communities.
The domination of utility scale projects, driven by profit and imposed on communities, is putting the energy transition in danger. Through cooperative and communal renewable projects we regain energy sovereignty while creating economic benefits that stay local.
Energy communities are an important part of the solution. But, they face challenges: from being perceived too technical or bureaucratic, to not being of interest to younger people, to a lack of funding and accessibility.
This is where we come in.
It is time to repower people
to take energy into our own hands.
By bringing our movement experience; organising practices, workshops and creative interventions we aspire to leveraging the social and cultural potential of energy communities and repower the movement from which they emerged. To strengthen existing ones, create new ones and build out a new generation of energy leaders.