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Phase: Planning

Business model development

Creating your business model should not be based on a single currency. Instead it should have the delivery of your targeted benefits at its core and needs to be structured accordingly. To achieve this, we give you insight into our tested and proved array of Civic Energy business models and an overview of what constitutes their core. Furtheremore you find a short introduction into the Civic demands on energy business models.

Additionally you can take a look at a tested business model blueprint that facilitates the cooperation between different kinds of organisations, e.g. SME and energy cooperative with ICA - principles.

The COBEN project has taken a deeper look at the business models of various civic energy initiatives around Europe. Here you can get insight into our tested and proved array of Civic Energy business models and an overview of what constitutes their core.

Name
Location
- Zonnige Start: Municipality Emmen, Klazienaveen-Noord; - Nieuw-Oranjepoort; municipality Emmen, Oranjedorp; -Pottendijk; municipality Emmen, Pottendijk
Destination Vesterhavet (Ringkøbing-Skjern and Varde municipality)
Northbay, Isle of Barra, Scotland, United Kingdom
Highlands and Islands, Scotland - 4 pilot locations (Barra & Vatersay; Brae; Drumnadrochit and Oban) where used to test the initiative.
Pottendijk, Nieuw-Weerdinge
Belgium, Zelzate
Belgium Eeklo
Belgium Schoten
Belgium, Knokke-Heist
villages Oranjedorp and Nieuw-Dordrecht
Nieuw-Weerdinge, municipality of Emmen
Uppsala municipality
Bramsche, Landkreis Osnabrück, Germany
Georgsmarienhütte, Landkreis Osnabrück, Germany
Merzen, Landkreis Osnabrück; Germany
Ringkøbing-Skjern kommune
Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality
Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality
8 community buildings spread throughout the municipality of Emmen
Eeklo, Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen
municipalities Eeklo, Maldegem, Kaprijke