Rural Association, CIRCUS Project Energy also requires direction On every farm, energy runs like an invisible vein through daily operations. It is indispensable, but also costly and increasingly complex. What used to be a simple yearly contract review has evolved i... 13 Apr 2026
Rural Association, CIRCUS Project The first CIRCUS pilot community in Loire-Atlantique has been launched A first pilot community within the CIRCUS project has been successfully launched in Blain, Loire-Atlantique. In this French municipality, a local energy community is being supported by RECIT using the... 8 Apr 2026
Rural Association, CIRCUS Project CIRCUS Partner Meeting in the Netherlands: strengthening collaboration for local energy communities Partners of the CIRCUS project recently gathered in Roosendaal, hosted by ZLTO . The three-day meeting brought together partners from across North-West Europe to exchange experiences, reflect on progr... 30 Mar 2026
Rural Association, CIRCUS Project From local voices to Local Power: How Ranst shows the real potential of Energy Communities Across Europe, the energy transition is often discussed in strategies, targets and long-term plans. But in Ranst, a small municipality in Belgium, it started differently. It started with a group of vo... 18 Mar 2026
Rural Association, CIRCUS Project Learning from Practice: Local Energy Trading at Fixed Prices in Roosendaal (NL) Across Europe, communities are exploring new ways to make renewable energy systems fairer, more resilient and locally grounded . Within the CIRCUS project, we closely follow and learn from the real-wo... 20 Jan 2026
Rural Association, CIRCUS Project Strengthening capitalisation and collaboration at the Interreg NWE Annual Event The Interreg NWE Annual Event offered an important moment for exchange, reflection and strategic connection for the CIRCUS project. Bringing together projects, policymakers and practitioners from acro... 18 Dec 2025
Rural Association, CIRCUS Project How Belgian pilot communities advance through the CIRCUS Methodology As part of the Interreg NWE CIRCUS project, six Belgian pilot communities are actively testing and shaping the CIRCUS methodology. Three are guided by Landelijke Gilden , three by Boerenbond , and one... 11 Dec 2025
Rural Association, CIRCUS Project Europe’s Energy Transition: Grid Capacity, Not Land, Is the Real Bottleneck In the European Union, the energy transition is no longer constrained by land availability but by the capacity of the electricity grid. Grid congestion—the inability of local networks to absorb and tr... 20 Nov 2025
Rural Association, CIRCUS Project Difficult times for energy communities in France Since 2010, France grows a significant energy communities’ network mostly powered by solar and wind energy project. This dynamic may change with the new direction taken by French government last summe... 13 Nov 2025
Rural Association, CIRCUS Project CIRCUS Belgium: Where energy meets people Reflections from “Samen Stroomt het” The Belgian CIRCUS event in Leuven Last week, Leuven became the beating heart of cooperative energy. Under the title “Samen Stroomt het” (literally “Together, it f... 13 Oct 2025
Rural Association, CIRCUS Project Three Inspiring Days of Energy, Exchangeand Collaboration in Leuven From 1 to 3 October, all CIRCUS partners gathered in Leuven, Belgium, for a three-day partner meeting that combined progress updates, creative exchange, and collective reflection on the road ahead. Th... 10 Oct 2025
Rural Association, CIRCUS Project CIRCUS at EUSEW 2025: Advancing Strategic Community Energy Development The European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) 2025 , held from 11-13 June in Brussels, served as Europe's flagship platform for sustainable energy discourse. CIRCUS participated strategically to advanc... 12 Jun 2025