Business models with a value proposition to vulnerable households: Exploration in 5 pilot cities
Energy services that benefit people in energy poverty need to be well defined: they only make sense if they meet the needs of those vulnerable consumers while, at the same time, being economically viable. POWER UP pilot cities take up that challenge and design social entrepreneurial solutions. But how to determine the right long-term business model for something as innovative as that?
Engaging with Vulnerable Households – A Practical Toolkit
This publication is intended to be used as a practical guide and toolkit for practitioners looking to engage not only vulnerable households in social energy projects, but other partners and stakeholders as well.
Understanding Energy Poverty Characteristics at the Local Level
This report presents and analyses the energy poverty situation at both a national scale for each of the project partners’ countries – Belgium, Czech
Republic, Italy, Netherlands, North Macedonia, and Spain – as well as at the local level where the pilot projects will be implemented. The report first reviews European level research and data on energy poverty and local energy cooperatives. It also delves down into the specificities of the issue in the individual countries.
Energy Business Models: which impacts on energy poverty mitigation?
How can we produce, distribute and share energy in a fair, but financially viable way? What Business schemes around clean energy can best serve the needs of people in energy poverty? The POWER UP project has identified suitable models that have the potential to build wealth and benefits for the poorest.
European Analysis of Different Social Energy Market Players
People and institutions have come together to become, themselves, energy market players – with the big difference of aiming for positive social impact. So how do these look like? This new report presents the current landscape of these new players, provides context and very concrete best practices from different countries. It puts particular emphasis on examining relationships between Social Energy Market Players and regional and local public authorities.
POWER UP Data management plan
This document aims to support members of the Power Up project to deal with the data generated by the project and in each pilot in a respectful and legally compliant manner.
