💡National tool collection
We have identified the most effective platforms and tools for supporting citizen-driven energy actions which are available and accessible for you.
Please choose those most relevant ones for your national circumstances. Make sure to find a good way to categorise your chosen tools so that your national local heroes can easily find what they need (i.e. using the given categorisation into guidelines and calculation tools).
We recommend to offer a maximum of nine tools per category.
Austria
Six steps towards an energy community (REC)
This website briefly describes the important steps to implement a renewable energy community. The steps here go…
AUSTRIA
7energy.at
7energy.at supports initiatives that are interested in establishing a renewable energy community. In addition to free basic…
AUSTRIA
Model contracts for REC
The Austrian Coordination Office for Energy Communities website provides sample statutes for associations, a supply agreement, and…
Hungary
Napelem árajánlat
One can receive PV installation offers easily, from all over Hungary, at the push of a button.…
AUSTRIA
Benefit tools for REC
The Benefit Tool can be used to estimate the economic viability of a renewable energy community with…
Germany
Klimaschutz-Planer
Interactive tool and data collection about German municipalities' energy consumption and emissions. Additional data and graphics are…
AUSTRIA
REC guide for communities
The REC guidebook for communities concisely summarises the most important information on the topic of renewable energy…
Croatia
Solar club Facebook group
A public Facebook group for all solar enthusiasts, owners of solar power plants and those who want…
Hungary
How to renovate public buildings to nearly-zero energy? Step by step guide
The guide aims to help local authorities (mainly HU, SLO, HR) understand and implement the renovation process.…
Germany
WWF-Klimarechner
The tool permits the user to calculate their own CO2-emissions, with very detailed aspects related to personal…
AUSTRIA
e-community.at, savings calculator
e-community.at offers an online calculator that households can use to estimate the total savings in their electricity…
Croatia
My energy, my freedom
The handbook for the installation of small PV plants on private houses provides information with 10 steps…
AUSTRIA
Sample contracts ebUtilities
This website provides, among other things, sample contracts between grid operators and the energy community for operation…
Croatia
E.on solar calculator
The tool for calculates the service of setting up a home solar power plant and estimates the…
AUSTRIA
Information distribution grid area EKG
After entering their address on this website, interested people receive the information to which distribution grid level…
Croatia
Energy communities - where to start?
Webinar held by a representative of Green Energy Cooperative where all the important steps and barriers were…
Hungary
PowerFund (in HU)
PowerFund is a web-based tool to help energy poor citizens across Europe identify and learn about collective…
Germany
Solarrechner
The calculation tool helps to determine the potential for solar energy of a building. Further calculations seem…
Austria
Quick Check for short range query
After entering their metering point number, this website provides consumers with information on the transformer station or…
Germany
PV-Ertragsrechner
The calculation tool helps to find out the potential for solar energy of a building. Further calculations…
Austria
e-community.at distribution tool
e-community.at offers a source code to clearly allocate generation and consumption in the energy community. The option…
Germany
Genossenschaften in Deutschland
The platform offers information material on cooperatives and energy cooperatives and provides detailed material on how to…
Hungary
Renovation of buildings to near-zero energy levels with innovative financing methods -Decision support tool
It provides information on the renovation of near-zero energy buildings through innovative financing methods such as public-private…
Austria
Photovoltaic calculator
The main goal of this report is to support different actors in the preparation of heat/cold supply…
Hungary
Energy Neighbourhoods
The programme organised by EON and Green Dependent Institution is a community competition where communities of families/households…
Austria
Photovoltaic self-consumption calculator
The photovoltaic self-consumption calculator provides information for a planned photovoltaic system on how and to what extent…
Austria
CO2 Indicator Calculator
The CO2 indicator calculator can be used to estimate the amount of CO2 that can be reduced…
BULGARIA
Act4ECO
ACT4ECO is a dynamic knowledge-sharing platform facilitating knowledge for consumers on how to use energy efficiently. The…
Hungary
Árajánlat kérés
Request a solar panel offer from one of the 300 member companies of MNNSZ by filling in…
Germany
CO2online StromCheck
With the tool, consumers and households can get an overview of the biggest sources and sectors of…
Germany
UBA Carbon Calculator
The tool calculates the CO2-emissions of users. It provides future scenarios and a separated display of different…
Bulgaria
Solar Estates
Solar Estates is the first specialised platform for investments in the RES parks and purchasing of suitable…
Croatia
On the sunny side platform
The platform offers turn-key solutions for the implementation of PV plants - from access to all relevant…
Croatia
Energia naturalis solar calculator
The calculator provides information on how much you can save by installing a solar power plant on…
Germany
Online Wertschöpfungsrechner
The tool calculates the added value in a municipality or community. It focuses on renewable energy, but…
Germany
Kommunale Wertschöpfung durch Klimaschutz
The document offers examples of regionally added values from renewable energy projects and the underlying financial and…
Germany
Regionale Wertschöpfung aus erneuerbaren Energien
The document offers examples of regionally added values from renewable energy projects and the underlying financial and…
Germany
Wärmewende
The website waermewende.de includes tools and information for people and municipalities interested in heating. Besides a calculation…
Germany
gemeinsam-mobil.net
The website gives all the necessary information if someone is interested in planning and implementing an electrical…