REScoop.eu is the European federation of renewable energy cooperatives, founded in 2011.
, it had 121 member organisations (energy communities, regional federations or small businesses and associations) in 25 European countries, representing 2,500 individual REScoops and their 2 million citizens.
On December 24, 2013, the European federation of groups and cooperatives of citizens for renewable energy (REScoop.EU) was legally established under Belgian national law with a European scope, to develop the activities of the federation and build a European renewable energy cooperative alliance.
REScoop is a short term for Renewable Energy Source Cooperative.
REScoop.eu advocates for a decentralized, renewable, efficient, clean and sustainable energy system with citizens at its core, referring to the energy transition as âÂÂthe energy transition to energy democracyâÂÂ.