List of energy cooperatives
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This is a list of energy cooperatives. A cooperative is an autonomous association of persons who voluntarily cooperate for their mutual social, economic, and cultural benefit.[http://www.ica.coop/coop/principles.html Statement on the Cooperative Identity.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204081503/http://www.ica.coop/coop/principles.html |date=2012-02-04 }} International Cooperative Alliance. Cooperatives include non-profit community organizations and businesses that are owned and managed by the people who use its services (a consumer cooperative) or by the people who work there (a worker cooperative) or by the people who live there (a housing cooperative), hybrids such as worker cooperatives that are also consumer cooperatives or credit unions, multi-stakeholder cooperatives such as those that bring together civil society and local actors to deliver community needs, and second and third tier cooperatives whose members are other cooperatives.
A 2009 study found that 23% of the newly founded cooperatives in Germany were in the energy sector. These cooperatives primarily operate wind farms, bioenergy and photovoltaic farms with local and regional scope.{{cite book|title=Climate Change Governance|date=2013|publisher=Springer|location=Berlin|isbn=978-3-642-29831-8|page=110|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gQnNpayz04cC&q=%22energy%20cooperatives%22&pg=PA110}}
Energy cooperatives
=Australia=
=Bolivia=
- Cooperativa Rural de Electrificacion R.L. (CRE)
=Belgium=
- [https://www.beauvent.be/ BeauVent]
- [https://www.bronsgroen.be/ BronsGroen]
- [https://www.campinaenergie.be/ Campina Energie]
- [http://www.brugsklimaatpodium.be/projecten/945-2/ CoopStroom]
- [https://denderstroom.be/ Denderstroom]
- [https://www.druifkracht.be/ Druifkracht]
- [https://www.ecoob.be/ ECoOB]
- [https://energent.be/ EnerGent]
- Ecopower
- [https://www.elecoo.be Elecoo cv]
- [https://coop.klimaan.be/ Klimaan]
- [https://megawattpuur.be/ MegaWattPuur]
- [https://cvba.pajopower.be/ PajoPower]
- [https://stroomvloed.be/ Stroomvloed]
- [https://www.vlaskracht.be/ Vlaskracht]
- [https://volterra.be/ Volterra]
- [https://zonnewind.org/ Zonnewind]
- [https://www.zuidtrant.be/ ZuidtrAnt]
=Canada=
=France=
=Germany=
In 2014 Germany had close to 1000:de:Bürgerenergiegenossenschaft{{Circular reference|date=February 2017}} energy cooperatives, among them:
- Bürger Energie Region Regensburg eG (BERR){{cite web|url=http://www.berregensburg.de|title=Start|website=www.berregensburg.de}}
- Bürgerwerke eG{{cite web|url=https://buergerwerke.de|title=Bürgerwerke - 100 % Ökostrom – Von Bürgern für Bürger -|website=buergerwerke.de}}
- BürgerEnergie Buxtehude eGbuergerenergie-buxtehude.de
- BürgerEnergieAltmark eG{{cite web|url=http://www.buerger-energie-altmark.de/|title=BürgerEnergieAltmark eG, Altmark|website=www.buerger-energie-altmark.de}}
- EnergieWende Erlangen und Erlangen-Höchstadt E- WERG eG{{cite web|url=http://www.ewerg.de/|title=EWERG eG - Bürgergenossenschaft EnergieWende Erlangen und Erlangen-Höchstadt eG|website=www.ewerg.de}}
- Elektrizitätswerke Schönau{{cite web|url=https://www.ews-schoenau.de/|title=atomstromlos. klimafreundlich. bürgereigen. - EWS Schönau|website=EWS Schönau}}
- Greenpeace Energy{{cite web|url=https://www.greenpeace-energy.de/|title=Privatkunden}}
- HEG Heidelberger Energiegenossenschaft eG{{cite web|url=http://www.heidelberger-energiegenossenschaft.de/|title=Home - HEG Heidelberger Energiegenossenschaft eG|website=www.heidelberger-energiegenossenschaft.de}}
- Neue Energien West- NEW eG{{cite web|url=http://www.neue-energien-west.de/|title=NEW – Neue Energien West eG - NEW - Neue Energien West eG, Bürger Energiegenossenschaft West eG im Landkreis Neustadt a. d. Waldnaab und der Stadt Weiden i. d. Oberpfalz|website=www.neue-energien-west.de}}
- Raiffeisen Bürger–Energiegenossenschaft Bliesgau eG{{cite web|url=http://www.beg-bliesgau.de/|title=BuergerEnergieGenossenschaft Bliesgau - Startseite|website=www.beg-bliesgau.de}}
- Regionalstrom Franken eG{{cite web|url=https://www.regionalstrom-franken.de/|title=Regionalstrom Franken|website=Regionalstrom Franken eG}}
- Ur- Strom BürgerEnergieGenossenschaft Mainz eG{{cite web|url=http://www.urstrom.com/|title=Urstrom eG Bürgerenergiegenossenschaft|website=www.urstrom.com}}
- Windfang eG Frauenenergiegemeinschaft{{cite web|url=http://s477174211.website-start.de|title=Windfang eG - Frauen im Aufwind - Home|website=s477174211.website-start.de}}
=Portugal=
=Serbia=
=Spain=
=Switzerland=
=Turkey=
=United Kingdom=
- AWEL{{Cite web|url=https://aat.cymru/|title=Home|website=Awel Aman Tawe|accessdate=6 January 2024}}
- Baywind Energy Co-operative
- Brighton Energy Co-operative
- Energy4All
- Fetlar Wind[https://www.fetlarwind.co.uk/ Fetlar Wind website]
- MaidEnergy Coop{{Cite web|url=https://maidenergy.coop/|title=MaidEnergy | Home|website=maidenergy.coop|accessdate=6 January 2024}}
- Westmill Solar Co-operative
- Westmill Wind Farm Co-operative
=USA=
- Isle au Haut Electric Power Company
- Fox Islands Electric Cooperative
- National Wind
- Native Wind
- Vineyard Power Co-operative
- Community wind energy – projects are locally owned by farmers, investors, businesses, schools, utilities, or other public or private entities who utilize wind energy to support and reduce energy costs to the local community
See also
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- List of cooperatives
- List of co-operative federations
- List of employee-owned companies
- List of food cooperatives
- List of retailers' cooperatives
- List of worker cooperatives
- List of utility cooperatives
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