Report on organizational and legal forms and business models for RECs

Deliverable 4.1. provides an overview of existing and planned organisational and legal forms and business models of renewable energy communities (RECs) from across Europe. In addition, this report includes - where relevant and not yet described in the COME RES Deliverable 2.1 “Assessment Report on Technical, Legal, Institutional and Policy Conditions”1 - information on local conditions, such as regulatory specificities at local and/or national level, available resources and support mechanisms, as well as further financial conditions and barriers (economic, regulatory, social, technical, related to other local conditions). Business models in this context are understood as models that are financially viable and “provide environmental, economic or social community benefits for its shareholders or members or for the local areas where it operates, rather than financial profits’2”. Further aspects include a community’s main value proposition to its beneficiaries, the key partners, its main activities, drivers and resources that are not monetary