WEnCoop: first women entrepreneurs’ energy cooperative in Greece

WEnCoop is a women-led energy cooperative initiated by the Greek Association of Women Entrepreneurs and founded by 60 businesswomen in June 2021. It aims to promote clean, sustainable energy innovation, address energy poverty and transform consumers into prosumers while achieving the EU climate goals. WEnCoop’s members and direct beneficiaries are women from diverse backgrounds living in vulnerable Greek communities. The cooperative has already installed a 1 MW photovoltaic park in Kassandra, Chalkidiki. It is boosting women’s participation in the Greek energy sector, raising awareness, mobilizing citizens and tracking the European Green Deal’s progress on energy transition.