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mPOWER Project: Results and Impacts

By mPOWER|October 27, 2022|

Municipalities need supportive and enabling policy environments at other geographical scales, particularly the national scale, to fulfil their potential in the drive towards energy transition. To make best use of localised ambition and action, national policy landscapes must support and reflect ongoing conversations about transition to low-carbon energy. This policy briefing offers suggestions at the national level for principles and policies that support the local transitions that draw upon our research findings.

Unlocking Municipal Energy Futures – National Policy Briefing

By mPOWER|October 21, 2022|

Municipalities need supportive and enabling policy environments at other geographical scales, particularly the national scale, to fulfil their potential in the drive towards energy transition. To make best use of localised ambition and action, national policy landscapes must support and reflect ongoing conversations about transition to low-carbon energy. This policy briefing offers suggestions at the national level for principles and policies that support the local transitions that draw upon our research findings.

mPOWER Webinar: Municipalist Strategies for a Just Energy Transition

By mPOWER|October 17, 2022|

Watch this webinar to learn about the state of play of local energy transitions across Europe, how towns and cities are pulling their powers to deliver energy as a public good, and which municipal strategies can turn the climate and energy crises around.

Municipalities can overcome Europe’s fossil-fuel addiction

By mPOWER|October 17, 2022|

Europe’s municipalities are developing social and ecological solutions to the energy crisis. They need more power to their elbows.

Building Public Power: Municipal Manual for Energy Transitions

By mPOWER|September 15, 2022|

We cannot afford to wait for the market to deliver the fundamental transformation of the energy system that we need. Instead, public authorities must take the lead. This does not mean a return to top-down planning and bureaucracy. By democratising governance, fostering citizen participation and by collaborating with trade unions, cooperatives and other civil society organisations, public bodies can deliver just and democratic energy transitions.

The state of municipal energy transitions: Multi-scalar constraints and enablers of Europe’s post-carbon energy ambitions

By mPOWER|September 6, 2022|

This article draws upon evidence from a mixed methods comparative and multi-scalar analysis across Europe exploring the different pressures and potential that exist for municipalities. Our central aim is to critically interrogate what municipalities are doing to achieve a post-carbon energy transition beyond lofty aspirations.

Boosting the energytransition in Kronenberg

By mPOWER|June 29, 2022|

In Kronenberg, a small 450 household strong village in North Limburg, southeastern Netherlands, the energy transition is underway. It is being driven forward by the enthusiasm and commitment of EnergieKronenberg, a citizen collective. EnergieKronenberg started as a working group within the local municipality but since mid-2018 has been an independent collective with a close relationship with the municipality. The group has one municipality member on it, and they reached out to mPOWER to work alongside them. The collective currently consists of 15 members and volunteers.

Co-criação de Comunidades de Energia em Portugal: o papel das autarquias

By mPOWER|April 20, 2022|

Exemplos concretos são uma forma de motivar as pessoas a transformar a realidade mais próxima de si, ao perceberem que boas ideias se podem tornar em boas práticas. É por isso que o terceiro evento regional do projeto H2020 mPower se concentrou nos resultados e nas questões da Energaia (a agência de energia que representa 7 municípios do sul da Área Metropolitana do Porto), que já tinha estado presente no evento anterior.

Co-creation of energy communities in Portugal – the role of municipalities

By mPOWER|April 20, 2022|

Concrete examples are a way of motivating people to transform the reality that’s closer to them, when they realize that good ideas can become good practices. That is why the third regional event of the H2020 mPower project focused on the results and topics raised by Energaia (the energy agency representing 7 municipalities in the south of the Porto Metropolitan Area).

Exploring Local Authority Approaches to Person-Centred Retrofit for Fuel Poverty

By mPOWER|April 12, 2022|

As part of our work on the mPower European project, we showcase the work we’ve been doing with local authorities around the UK, exploring ways to hard-wire client and person-centred approaches to the delivery of publicly procured retrofit works in a fuel poor context.

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