With the entry into force of the new law and regulation to facilitate collective self-consumption (RD 244/2019), it is necessary to be aware of the importance of not leaving families with fewer resources behind in this long-distance race that is the change in the energy model, which will serve to fight against the climate emergency and move towards a fairer society.
These families would be particularly benefited by a collective self-consumption installation , since the costs for each resident are reduced compared to individual self-consumption installations. In addition to the environmental benefits, residents would see savings in the cost of electricity supply and at the same time it is an act that reinforces energy sovereignty, since it reduces dependence on large companies that belong to the oligopoly that manages the Spanish electricity sector.
The project
“Impulse de Comunitats Energétiques” aims to address the previously mentioned challenges from the experience of a specific municipality, with the aim of collecting learnings, suggestions and methodologies that can be replicated in other municipalities throughout Spain.
The municipality of Sabadell has been selected for the project to actively participate from the departments of Housing, Environment and Social Services, in addition to proposing a community of neighbors to carry out participation activities and is committed to monitoring them.
A series of meetings have been held with the selected community of residents, the City Council’s Neighborhood Associations, social entities and the Housing, Environment and Social Services departments. The local Som Energia group has also participated in some of the meetings.
These not only aimed to inform and train attendees about collective self-consumption and its possibilities, in addition to breaking some false myths about photovoltaics, but also collected information thanks to the active participation of attendees: needs, doubts, weaknesses, strengths, threats and opportunities were compiled, according to the points of view of the different actors involved.
Results
Through all the information collected, communication materials have been designed to promote collective self-consumption, offering technical support and proposing practical solutions to bring civil society and the City Council’s social services, housing and environmental departments closer together.
On the one hand, an information leaflet for citizens, resolving the most general doubts (how much it might cost, what are the steps to follow to create an energy community, how to establish an agreement between neighbors, or how the benefits are distributed, for example).
On the other hand, a detailed guide on collective self-consumption aimed at technicians from Sabadell City Council, where more emphasis is placed on the technical aspects of the installations, information is provided on the mechanisms available to the City Council to promote the proliferation of collective self-consumption, proposals for complementary actions for the city council to bring self-consumption closer to citizens and opportunities offered by working interdepartmental to detect communities susceptible to becoming energy communities.
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