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Lunch webinar in Flemish (6 Nov): Combating energy poverty in your municipality – Insights from Eeklo

In the framework of POWER UP, the City of Eeklo and the citizen cooperative Ecopower are making local wind and solar energy available to everyone, including households in vulnerable situations.

The European pilot project is nearing its end. Do you work for a local government in Flanders and are you looking for solutions to energy poverty in your municipality? Join this lunch webinar. What have the Belgian partners Eeklo and Ecopower accomplished in the past 4 years in making energy fair and affordable for all? What have they learned? And how could you put this into practice? You’ll find out all about it on November 6, 2025 at 12h.

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