Citizen associations and cooperatives play an important role in the social acceptance of renewable energies. Many of them have been established in Paris region with the goal of promoting renewable energies in their area, organized through Energie Partagée network.

For instance, O’Watt citoyen installs solar panels on the roof of ESSEC Business School to promote individual self-consumption. This cooperative, part of Energie partagée, also explores other projects, some of which operate on a collective self-consumption model!

Read the full article in the Journal du Grand Paris