Creating a transnational enabling environment to foster microgrid solutions supporting in particular the creation of local energy communities Increasing renewables uptake through MICROGRIDS in the Alps OUTPUTS • Alpine microgrid model for energy communities and project developers • Policy package for national, regional and local policy makers to improve their energy and climate plans • Replication programme involving organizations outside the consortium areas ACTIVITIES • Building on and running of microgrid pilot sites in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Slovenia • Transnational exchanges of knowledge and experiences involving local energy stakeholders and policy makers FOCUS • Develop a common understanding of microgrids and their benefits • Create an enabling policy environment for microgrids • Replicate the microgrid model in the Alps 36 observers oct 2019 - jun 2022 € 1,599,511 Project partners: Website: www.alpine-space.eu/projects/alpgrids/en/home Follow us on LinkedIn Lead partner: