This is the place where you can find the key publications that serve as useful tools for city administrations wanting to create energy market players with a social impact.
• Brochure on setting up social energy market players (November 2025):This brochure distils four years of hard work in six sites across Europe. Read about the processes behind the POWER UP business models, get practical advice from the city pioneers on energy service design, and take a look with us into the future. It is not about every detail, but about the highlights that can be helpful for any follower. First steps should be easier once you’ve looked behind the scenes of POWER UP.
• 6 national guides for a step-by-step approach to set up social energy market players tackling energy poverty (February 2025): The aim of the National Guides is to support interested stakeholders (such as cities, municipalities, citizens and citizen energy communities, and municipal companies) to develop a social energy model by following the activities developed as part of the POWER UP project. They were produced by Ami Crowther and Saska Petrova from the University of Manchester.
• Guidelines on RES production business case: how to do, what to take into account (December 2023)
• Guidelines on engagement with vulnerable households (September 2022): 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.
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