REScoop MECISE · MECISE

REScoop MECISE is a European Cooperative Society created to empower local communities and citizen-led energy projects. Our mission is to provide access to finance, technical support, and collaborative networks to help renewable energy cooperatives and municipalities implement sustainable energy projects. It facilitates investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency, ensuring that the benefits of clean energy reach local communities.

REScoop MECISE was established following the successful REScoop MECISE Horizon 2020 project (2015–2019), a European initiative launched by the Belgian cooperative Ecopower together with REScoop.eu and four member cooperatives: Courant d’Air (BE), Enercoop (FR), Energy4All (UK), and SomEnergia (ES). The project demonstrated the potential of citizen-led energy initiatives and highlighted the need for dedicated financial support to scale up local projects across Europe.

By creating MECISE as a European Cooperative Society, the partners aimed to address barriers to finance, enhance local control, and foster cooperation between energy communities and municipalities, ensuring that sustainable energy initiatives can thrive long-term.

Renewable Energy Projects

Financial Services

Energy Efficiency Projects

Collaboration with municipalities

Book

Read our blue book to learn how we mobilised EU citizens to invest in sustainable energy. The book will guide you through our main achievements and contains interesting examples of how citizens energy communities can team up with their local authorities to accelerate the transition and keep it in the hands of citizens.

Creation of MECISE

In 2019, we launched REScoop MECISE, a European Mutual for Energy Communities Investing in a Sustainable Europe. Through that we aim to overcome various financing problems encountered by energy communities from across Europe.