The “Handbook on Cross-border Energy Communities” features some good practices and examples of cross-border energy initiatives. They can serve as inspiration for communities with similar settings and problems.
The "ALDEALIX – Model villages" project started in July 2023 and lasts until the end of 2025. It is funded under the Interreg VI-A Spain-Portugal Cooperation Programme 2021-2027 and is located between the Spanish region of Galicia and Northern Portugal. The Galician Regional Development Agency coordinates the project.
The ALDEALIX project shall address common problems of this rural cross-border territory: reduction of CO2 emissions, revaluation of available forest masses, reduction of the risk of fires, fight against depopulation, prioritisation of innovative infrastructures for the promotion of renewable energies and the creation of quality jobs in rural areas, among other things. Thus, the main motivation of the project is to promote a social, economic and environmental model in which natural resources (biomass) that are produced locally will be used to generate energy, which will result in economic savings for the inhabitants while reducing the environmental impact and contributing to the creation of economic activity in the region. The project focuses on developing energy communities that utilise local forest biomass to satisfy local energy needs (complemented by photovoltaic electricity) with the aim at promoting self-sufficiency and economic savings for residents. Four pilot projects will be carried out as practical experiences of the energy solution: in the Spanish municipalities of Monterrei (Ourense) and Cerdedo – Cotobade (Pontevedra) and in the Portuguese municipalities of Vila Pouca de Aguiar and Arcos de Valdevez. Even though these energy communities will be legally independent, they will be connected through a unified cross-border management platform that will allow energy benchmarking, of the thermal consumption of the heat networks, and of the generation, storage and use of photovoltaic energy.
Link: https://aldealix.eu/
Access the handbook here: https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/information-sources/publications/studies/2025/handbook-on-cross-border-energy-communities_en
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