Launch energy communities
in your region
An introduction for prospective Energy Sharing Organizers
Contact usWHAT WE DO
What Hypha Energy does
Hypha Energy makes local energy easier to own, govern, share and benefit from together.
Organising energy together is one of the most useful things a local community can do.
Energy is one of the few high recurring costs a community can take charge of collectively: a street, a village, a housing association, a group of businesses on one industrial estate. A community that runs its own energy can also run other things.
We focus on the value a community can create with its local energy potential:
- Lower bills
- Local generation
- Assets the community owns
- Less pressure on the local grid
- Local investment set in motion
THE GAP
The execution gap
Energy communities make sense on paper: lower costs, local ownership, cleaner power. Three things are already in place.
European law allows it.
The Renewable Energy Directive gave the energy community a legal form in 2018 and strengthened it in 2023, and every member state has had to make room for it.
The technology works and has become affordable.
Panels, batteries, meters and the software to run them are no longer the hard part.
The people are willing.
Communities are already organised in their hundreds, and more form every year. Portugal's regulator counts over a thousand collective self-consumption and energy community projects in operation.
Many never reach a working system. The gap is execution capacity: turning local willingness into something financed, governed and running.
Regulation, governance, hardware, funding and the fair division of value each need expertise a community rarely has. The administrative workload alone is more than volunteers can carry. Most assemble their answer from vendors that were never built to work together.
This is the execution gap Hypha Energy closes. Hypha Energy is the ecosystem operating layer for Energy Communities and Energy Hubs. It handles everything a community needs in one platform: who owns what, who decides, how energy gets optimised, how bills get paid, and how value gets shared.
THE MARKET
How huge this is
590,000
Potential energy hubs across Europe by 2030
€292bn
Estimated investment
Our ambition relative to the market
10,000 · our target
590,000 total
Based on SolarPower Europe's projections for new solar capacity, we estimate around 590,000 potential energy hubs across Europe by 2030, representing about €292bn of investment.
Our own ambition of 10,000 hubs by 2030 is under two per cent of that market, and we plan to reach it through regional partners.
Why this market is opening now
2018
Renewable energy communities get a legal form, with the right to generate, store and sell energy together.
2019
Citizen energy communities are added, and independent aggregation is recognised.
2023
Binding renewable targets rise to at least 42.5 per cent by 2030.
2024
A right to energy sharing. Households, small businesses and public bodies may share locally generated energy between themselves, without becoming an energy supplier.
Member states had until July 2026 to put that last right into national law. It is being completed market by market, at different speeds, which is why some markets are ready now and others are not.
Energy sharing applies to installations up to 6 MW inside a defined local area. That is the segment Hypha Energy serves.
THE ROLE
Where an Energy Sharing Organizer comes in
Energy communities are local. The rules, the grid operator, the funding and the people who decide are all local.
Hypha Energy builds and runs the platform and works through regional partners. An Energy Sharing Organizer delivers the Route under its own name and keeps the relationship once the community is live.
Contact usWho this is for
Organisations already working with communities, cooperatives or municipalities in their region
With knowledge of the national rules, the grid operator and the funding routes
With people who can sell and deliver
Able to carry a young business through its first year
THE PLATFORM
The platform
Hypha Energy is the operating layer for community-owned renewable energy. It handles in one platform what a community would otherwise buy from four suppliers: who owns what, who decides, how energy is optimised, how bills are paid and how value is shared.
Five functions, in one platform.
- Engage · Members join, and a community moves from first interest to a business case it believes.
- Shared Ownership · A live register of who owns which asset: the solar, the storage, the chargers.
- Shared Decisions · Membership, proposals, voting and the treasury, with every decision recorded where any member can check it.
- Optimise · Production, use, storage and demand managed against the rules the community set.
- Shared Value · Energy measured and valued every fifteen minutes, then settled between members.
Two more sit underneath. Market Access gives a community a compliant route to market. Ecosystem Integration connects the platform to business software, maintenance and the Energy Sharing Organizer.
The community configures all of this itself and keeps control of its own data.
THE JOURNEY
The Journey to a Live Energy Community
Every Energy Community passes through five phases on its way to a system that runs and pays off. For each phase we offer supporting services, and a community picks only the ones it needs. Most services deliver something the community keeps, whether or not it goes on to use the Hypha Energy platform.
- 1
Explore
Is this real for us, and what would we gain?
Quick Scan
A fit check and advice on the next step
Free, automated
Energy & Savings Simulator
Savings, investment and running costs for 2 or 3 set-ups
On request
Purpose game
A purpose profile that sets up the energy system
On request
- 2
Organise
Who is in, how do we organise, and how do we do it?
Energy Community Canvas
A plan the core team can act on
On request
Social hackathon
The Simulator, the Purpose game and the Canvas in two days, for a large group
On request
Deepening modules
A worked answer per theme
On request
- 3
Launch
Can we run the platform ourselves?
Launch & Onboarding Accelerator
Platform running, team trained, members on board
On request
- 4
Design
What do we build, and how is it financed?
Detailed Smart Hardware Masterplan
A tender-ready plan that banks can lend against
On request
Live
The community is operational
Ecosystem fee
Access to the platform, based on the energy the community produces and shares
Recurring fee
Step content as at 27 September 2026.
At the end of the journey the community runs its own energy system. It owns the assets, sees what it generated, used and shared in fifteen-minute intervals, and sets the rules for how the benefit is divided between members. Those rules are changed by a vote of the members.
THE ECONOMICS
What is in it for an Energy Sharing Organiser
An Energy Sharing Organiser earns a share of every service it delivers on the journey, and a share of the recurring fee for as long as the community stays.
| Service | Your share |
|---|---|
| Quick Scan | — |
| Energy & Savings Simulator | 17% |
| Purpose game | 33% |
| Energy Community Canvas | 33% |
| Social hackathon | 33% |
| Deepening modules | 33% |
| Launch & Onboarding Accelerator | 33% |
| Detailed Smart Hardware Masterplan | 17% |
| Ecosystem fee, once live | 20% |
The Simulator and the Masterplan are delivered with a simulation partner and an energy management partner, which is why the share there is smaller. The Energy Sharing Organizer in your market takes a share of the same services and fee, for recruiting and supporting Energy Sharing Organisers.
Percentages are rounded. The full economics come with the partnership pack: what a community is worth over its life, and what a first year involves.
Contact usWHAT WE BRING
What Hypha Energy brings
No cost to begin. No licence fee, no territory fee, no minimum volume. Hypha Energy is paid from the ecosystem fee, and only once the community is live.
The Journey services are your proposition. You deliver them under your own name.
Training. Hypha Energy trains you on every service and works alongside you through your first community.
Platform and technical support. Hypha Energy runs the platform, maintains the contracts and takes the escalations that need engineering.
Shared learning. What one market works out is available to the others.
NEXT STEP
Next step
Is this the work you already believe in? Do you want to know what it would take to be the Energy Sharing Organizer for your own region?
Contact us to talk through the opportunity where you are, and to go through our partnership pack, which covers:
- The full economics
- What each step of the Journey delivers
- What Hypha Energy looks for in a partner
- What a first year involves
WHERE WE WORK
Where we are active
Portugal and Spain · Hypha Energy Iberia is our partner for both countries.
Norway · Hypha Energy Nordics.
The Netherlands · A partner is being set up.
Poland · A partner is being set up.