Applications Invited for EKOenergy’s Climate Fund

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About the Organization

EKOenergy is an international not-for-profit ecolabel for energy (renewable electricity as well as renewable gas, heat and cold).

In addition to being renewable, EKOenergy-labelled energy fulfils additional sustainability criteria and finances projects that combat energy poverty.

The EKOenergy ecolabel can be combined with any sourcing method: Green tariffs, Power Purchasing Agreements (PPAs), unbundled energy certificates such as Guarantees of Origin, RECs, I-RECs and others. Energy from on-site installations can also carry the EKOenergy label. EKOenergy brings additional positive impact to consumers’ renewable energy choice, regardless of the method of purchase or consumption.

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol, LEED for green buildings, CDP and the RE100 describe the EKOenergy ecolabel as a good solution for consumers that want to take an extra step.

About the Fund

In order to bring additional positive impact to consumers’ choice of renewable energy and help realise the UN’s Global Goals (Particularly SDG 7: Affordable, clean energy for all), the EKOenergy Eco label raises funds for new renewable electricity projects in developing countries.

For each MWh of EKOenergy-labelled energy sold, 0.10 € goes to EKOenergy’s Climate Fund. With these contributions, we finance carefully selected renewable electricity projects aimed to alleviate energy poverty.

The projects we finance via our Climate Fund are usually small-scale solar PV and wind energy projects. All financed projects are managed by experienced organizations and are implemented in cooperation with local NGOs.

This year, some of the EKOenergy users have shown interest in supporting projects from local NGOs in South Africa and India. We therefore particularly encourage such NGOs to submit a proposal.

How to Apply

We are now looking for 15 to 20 solar and wind energy projects that target energy poverty in developing countries.

The grant per project will be 15,000 to 40,000 €

We invite organisations to submit project proposals by 10 February 2023 (i.e. before 11 February 2023).

The project proposal should be a maximum of 3 pages and written in English. They should be sent as a pdf document to ekoenergyfunds@sll.fi. Pre-selected projects will be invited to submit more information in April 2023.

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