Package 01
Setting up the community
From 'we want to do this' to a renewable energy community (CER) registered with ANRE (Romania's energy regulator), with the funding application already submitted.
- Pre-feasibility (mapping public buildings, PV potential)
- Forming the founding group (min. 5 members)
- Statutes + articles of association from the STUP template
- Legal registration (cooperative or association)
- Registration in the ANRE national register of energy communities
- Feasibility study + grid connection permit (ATR) with the DSO
4-6 months from zero to a registered hive
Package 02
Running the community
After installation, someone has to keep the hive alive. That someone is us.
- Reading the smart meters of every member, monthly
- Allocation coefficient - the formula that shares production among members
- Monthly settlement - the energy produced is deducted from each member's bill
- Software EMS
- Selling the surplus to the supplier
- Annual reporting to ANRE + ANAF (the Romanian tax authority), general assembly
- Technical maintenance
monthly subscription, for years
Package 03
EU funding advice
Applications to PTJ (Programul Tranziție Justă, Romania's Just Transition Programme, funded by the EU Just Transition Fund), the Modernisation Fund, LIFE. A team already at work, an existing portfolio.
- Project eligibility analysis
- Technical and economic documentation
- Application + submission
- Answering the evaluator's clarification requests
- Support with the funding contract
- Implementation reporting
high co-financing - up to ~98% for PTJ calls