The latest news from the OptimCE project
An energy community is first and foremost a social project. Here's how to inform, engage and involve your members in decisions — with a news board, polls and participatory governance...
Read more →New OptimCE feature: simulate an allocation key on your own data and measure self-consumption, surplus, self-sufficiency and the sharing rate.
Read more →Understanding self-consumption in Belgium: definition, the self-consumption rate and how to raise it, collective self-consumption and its link with energy communities, the differences between Wallonia, Brussels and Flanders, who benefits,...
Read more →Joining an energy community lets you pay less for electricity at a more stable price. We explain the savings levers, a worked example, the differences between Wallonia, Brussels and Flanders,...
Read more →OptimCE's automatic generation module is now live. It proposes optimised allocation keys from a community's real production and consumption data, with two algorithms — brute force on standard keys and...
Read more →Allocation key in an energy community — types accepted by CWaPE, BRUGEL and VREG, regional differences across Wallonia, Brussels and Flanders, and practical guidance to choose one.
Read more →How to join an energy community in Wallonia: eligibility, where to find an open sharing operation (OptimCE registry, SPW facilitator, Énergie commune), steps to enrol and points to check before...
Read more →How to set up an energy community (CER or CEC) in Wallonia: choosing the model, legal structure, CWaPE notification, acknowledgement of receipt, and launching the energy sharing with ORES, RESA...
Read more →Understand energy communities in Belgium — differences between renewable, citizen and local energy communities, how energy sharing works, key actors and benefits.
Read more →A new OptimCE release is out, with bug fixes, a brand-new user guide and a public registry to discover open energy-sharing operations.
Read more →Discover how to install and configure OptimCE in a few steps to start managing your energy community.
Read more →An overview of the European framework for renewable energy communities and citizen energy communities.
Read more →We are proud to present OptimCE, an open source platform dedicated to managing renewable energy communities.
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