Policy Support

RAPPEL allows members to increase their skills, contribute to knowledge sharing and feedback. The subjects covered are varied and contribute to the development of new projects in the territories.

The Transition Point was a pilot project designed and promoted by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to tackle energy poverty among Portuguese families and contribute to a fair energy transition in the country.

The Energy Inclusion Program helps low income households to acces clean and renewable energy a swell as improve energy eficiency through education.

It offers information, diagnosis and personalised advice to understand and reduce energy supply bills, learn responsible energy consumption habits and implement energy efficiency measures to implement in their homes, as well as subsidies or programmes to finance them. The transmission of information to the population, and especially to vulnerable people, is carried out through different tools and channels.

The project created opportunities to retrofit full neighbourhoods that were in a vulnerable situation and that were located on the outskirts of big cities, built between the post-war period in Spain and 1979.

EPRi was founded in 2017 as a step towards establishing a Scottish cross-sector centre for excellence in energy / fuel poverty research.

The ELIH MED project aimed to promote the energy efficiency in low income housing in the Mediterranean. In Cyprus interventions to increase energy efficiency were made in 25 households with low energy income and 25 smart meters installed.

The initiative is focused in the economical empowerment of families, income management for households, investments, basic supplies, debt, overindebtness and housing. The use of clean energy and responsible consumption are part of the main objetives of the programme.

The overall goal of the CEES project is to identify, assess and improve replicable energy communities' energy solidarity practices and, later on, foster their uptake in other European communities by creating a toolkit and offering policy support.

The project provides support to frontline social workers on issues related to energy, policy and advocacy on the right to energy.