The Rural Energy Community Advisory Hub is an initiative on behalf of the European Commission that has the mission of empowering the development of community energy action in European rural areas. The key activities of the Advisory Hub are supporting rural community and energy transition projects to identify best practices, providing technical assistance to selected rural energy communities, and providing networking opportunities to local stakeholders.

The rural energy communities that will receive technical assistance from the Advisory Hub will serve as examples of rural energy communities that should inspire widespread, socially inclusive energy transition efforts in the rural areas. The Advisory Hub will work in tandem with the EU Covenant of Mayors network, the European Network for Rural Development, and the EU initiative Energy Communities Repository. For more detailed information about the Advisory Hub and its activities, you can learn more here.

The Advisory Hub will provide direct technical assistance to rural energy communities selected via one call for applications. The technical assistance in the form of expert support will help improve the development and implementation of projects in a variety of areas, depending on the need of each individual rural energy community.

The project implementation period: 2022-2023. Total budget – 1,919,036 €