About BECoop
The ambition of BECoop (2020-2023), a project supported by the European Horizon 2020 programme, is to provide the necessary conditions, technical as well as business support tools, for unlocking the underlying market potential of community bioenergy, fostering new links and partnerships.
Unlocking replication potential and scaling up at the EU level
Developing bioenergy communities
Reducing resistance, boosting demand and start de-risking community bioenergy investments
Empowering policy to transfer the community energy momentum to bioenergy heating
Making community bioenergy project development easier, further cutting down time and cost efforts
Becoop key results
Resources to foster a broad deployment of bioenergy heating technologies and communities across Europe: access some here and navigate this website to find more (financial and technical catalogues, factsheets, etc.)!
Pilot Areas
BECoop tests the implementation of community bioenergy heating support scheme in 4 complementary pilot cases before transferring to additional cases across the EU.
Read About
What is bioenergy? What do communities offer? Learn more in our dedicated sections and with our project results.
Latest news
In case you missed them, BECoop organised the first semester of 2023 a series of 10 webinars to learn more on bioenergy communities, introduce and discuss key topics: Biomass Combustion Symbiosis and synergies The Becoop tools BECoop presents – District Heating, all you ever wanted to know! Biogas Plants – Operation and Design in terms […]
In March 2023, the BECoop team was led by Italian partners Fiper and SEV for a tour of Northern Italian initiatives for biomass use. What have they learnt? Follow them on this journey to learn about sustainable bioenergy communities in a short visual briefing and video! This briefing was prepared by the BECoop project team, […]
June 12, 11.30-1pm CET – Supporting energy communities in tackling energy poverty and gender inequality: skill up! This webinar offers the opportunity to discuss how energy poverty can be tackled by increasing inclusivity and skills. Speakers will address ways to strengthen inclusion by combining efforts led by municipalities, energy suppliers, civil society organisations and citizens. […]
Latest events
June 12, 11.30-1pm CET – Supporting energy communities in tackling energy poverty and gender inequality: skill up! This webinar offers the opportunity to discuss how energy poverty can be tackled by increasing inclusivity and skills. Speakers will address ways to strengthen inclusion by combining efforts led by municipalities, energy suppliers, civil society organisations and citizens. […]
Webinar series – Join us from November 2022 to May 2023 to learn more on bioenergy and communities!
BECoop partners are holding a series of webinars, from November 2022 to May 2023, to introduce key topics to whoemever is interested. The webinars last 45 minutes and are recorded, then made available on our Knowledge Exchange Platform. Join us for the next ones and add them to your calendars:
5 June | 12.00 – 13.30 CET – REGISTRATION #EUGreenWeek – 2023, European Year of Skills Skills for sustainable, resilient, and socially fair communities The energy crisis has increased citizens’ willingness to reduce their energy bills, improve their understanding of energy efficiency and become active in the energy transition. A number of new tools and initiatives […]