Global 100% Renewable Energy is a global campaign advocating a fast transition towards 100% renewable energy. It unites renewable energy proponents from all over the world and wants to give more visibility to the increasing number of towns, groups and companies using 100% renewable energy. 

EKOenergy is a proud supporter of the campaign. We know that it is technically and economically possible to fuel our economy with 100% renewable energy. The main obstacles are of a social and political nature. Together, we can overcome these obstacles.

No hibernation yet for the staff and volunteers at the EKOenergy Secretariat. We are finalising the public consultations about hydropower plants in Italy and Germany. At the same time, we are compiling existing data and recommendations about how to avoid bat mortality around wind turbines. Input welcome.

We are in contact with stakeholders from Spain to Latvia and from the Netherlands to Turkey. A lot of people want to know what we are doing, and we are happy to tell it.

Esther, our French volunteer, is dedicating her 'holidays' in France on a whole series of EKOenergy meetings and Guillermo will do the same in Spain. This week we organised a farewell for Elea, who has been our contact person for Germany in the last 12 months. A new German volunteer will join us in January, along with an Italian and a British.

We uploaded the Slovenian version of our Comic. The Ukrainian will follow before New Year.
 

The liberalisation of the Latvian electricity market for households is scheduled for January 1, 2015. Households will be able to choose between four different electricity suppliers. One of the suppliers, Baltcom, will sell EKOenergy certified electricity.

Latvijas Dabas fonds, Latvijas Zalaa Kustiba and Zala Briviba, the three members of the Latvian EKOenergy network, have been following the liberalisation process with great interest, and are now fully prepared to inform consumers, and to guide them towards the most ecological choice.

Ojārs Balcers from Latvijas Dabas Fonds and Jānis Brizga from Zala briviba wrote an article about the topic. See http://www.ir.lv/2014/10/29/laba-elektroenergija

And on Monday December 8, Ojars Balcers talked about the same topics on the main channel of the Latvian TV. You can re-watch the program via this link.

Congratulations.

The newest and particularly successful action of 350.org is the “Divestment Campaign”. That campaign demands that investors pull their money out of the fossil fuel industry.

Sarianna Mankki, chairperson of 350 Finland, gives more background information in a new blogpost on our website.

In the summer of 2013, Minna Hänninen was a trainee at the EKOenergy Secretariat. She informed Finnish electricity companies about the new legislation on electricity tracking. She also helped them to enroll their power plants into the Guarantees of Origin register. In the spring of 2014, she wrote her Bachelor's thesis about the EKOenergy biomass criteria, and helped us to develop our audit process.

And now, Minna is back as an employee. In the 5 following months, she will help us to start new "energy and biodiversity" projects in Finland, and she will look for ways to finance them. Welcome back Minna.

For more information, contact Minna at Minna.Hanninen@sll.fi