The Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO), through the Institute for Diversification and Energy Saving (IDEA), Awarded 1,150,000 euros to two Navarran projects -of the Regional Government and the City of Pamplona - within the program of aid to Community Transformation Offices (OTC) for the promotion and dynamization of energy communities. Within the framework of the first call for such aid, the EUR 20 million foreseen from the European funds NextGenerationEU of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan has been awarded to a total of 79 projects spread over much of the national territory.

The program seeks to facilitate the creation of new energy communities of all kinds (citizens, business, industry…) with dissemination, advice and accompaniment measures that pave the way and extend the general knowledge about this cooperative formula of production and consumption of renewable energy, as well as promoting measures of energy efficiency, demand management and sustainable mobility.

The constitution of the OTC will have a direct impact on employment, associated with the professionals who will provide the services in the office, but it will also generate a tractor effect of the economy associated with energy services in their areas of influence, by activating the constitution of energy communities.

In addition, OTCs will contribute to a more inclusive ecological transition through three lines of action:

- Empowerment of new actors in the energy sector, accompanying them, among other issues, in the activation and dynamization of energy communities.

- Expert advice on projects for the construction and operation of energy communities: technical, administrative, financial or legal, but also social, facilitating the debate and participation processes that characterize these cooperative formulas for the production and consumption of renewable energy.

- Formation and dissemination of energy communities, to extend knowledge about this formula, maximizing the opportunities they offer in the democratization of energy generation and consumption.

The program of promotion and training of the OTCs is synergistic with other calls of the PERTE-EHRA and, in a very particular way, with the CE Implement lines, also managed by the IDAE, with an endowment of 80 million and that, for the moment, has already awarded 40 million, activating more than 70 projects of energy communities throughout Spain