For the 6 pilots and observers involved, the project was a fantastic laboratory on energy poverty business solutions. However, learnings are meant to travel beyond the focus country borders. This is why partners made particular efforts in sharing their innovtive work with other organisation who’d want to follow their steps. This report presents the replication strategies and activities performed in the six target countries of POWER UP: Italy, Belgium, Czechia, Spain, the Netherlands and North Macedonia.
In POWER UP, two replication strategies have been deployed and tested:
- a sister organisation scheme and
- a series of national capacity building workshops.
The sister organisation scheme ran throughout the project duration. It aimed at facilitating a privileged and regular exchange between national pilot project partners and external organisations showing high interest in the project, and holding a replication potential. The sister organisations have been identified and matched with consortium partners at the project inception phase.
The POWER UP replication strategy and activities have demonstrated the strong potential of
locally rooted, socially oriented renewable energy models to inspire and mobilise actors.
Despite political changes, regulatory uncertainties, and differing starting points in each country,
the replication strategy, which combined sister organisations and capacity-building activities,
was effective in disseminating the project’s learnings, transferring knowledge, and potentially
catalysing replication. Each one of the project target countries found its way in establishing
cooperations that were meaningful for their local reality.
But let’s not forget: Replication is not a one-size-fits-all process, and POWER UP showed the need
for flexibility in the process.
This report is the deliverable D6.1 of the POWER UP project.
