#wind

🇨🇭 Switzerland · ADEV Energiegenossenschaft

Switzerland's oldest citizen energy cooperative lets ordinary members co-own the solar, wind and hydro plants powering their neighborhoods.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Zhanatas Wind Power Plant LLP

Forty turbines on the Zhambyl steppe form Central Asia's largest wind farm, cutting hundreds of thousands of tons of CO2 a year in a coal-dependent grid.

🇧🇪 Belgium · Ecopower cvba

Belgium's oldest energy cooperative lets more than 70,000 citizens co-own the wind turbines and solar panels that power their homes.

🇩🇪 Germany · Neue Energien Forum Feldheim

A Brandenburg village of about 130 residents has run entirely on its own wind, solar and biogas power since 2010.

🇵🇪 Peru · WindAid Institute

A Peru-based nonprofit trains volunteers and local technicians to hand-build small wind turbines that bring first-time electricity access to remote Andean communities.

🇯🇵 Japan · Hokkaido Green Fund

A Sapporo NPO pioneered Japan's model for citizen-owned wind power, letting ordinary residents pool savings to build turbines their communities actually own.

🇳🇱 Netherlands · Stichting De Noordzee (North Sea Foundation)

For more than four decades this Dutch foundation has fought for a cleaner, wilder North Sea — and is now turning offshore wind farms into oyster reefs.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust (Eigg Electric)

Since 2008, the roughly 100 residents of Scotland's Isle of Eigg have collectively owned and run the world's first off-grid community electricity network powered by hydro, wind, and solar.

🇵🇸 Palestine · Comet-ME (Community, Energy and Technology in the Middle East)

An Israeli-Palestinian NGO builds solar-and-wind hybrid mini-grids and water systems for herding communities in the South Hebron Hills who are barred from connecting to the electric grid.

🇪🇸 Spain · Som Energia

A member-owned cooperative founded in Catalonia in 2010 supplies 100% renewable electricity and lets people co-invest in solar and wind.

🇩🇰 Denmark · Middelgrunden Wind Turbine Cooperative

Thousands of ordinary Danes pooled savings to co-own half of a 40 MW offshore wind farm just outside Copenhagen, still one of the world's largest cooperatively owned wind projects.

🇦🇹 Austria · illwerke vkw AG

Vorarlberg's state-owned utility runs an Alpine hydropower fleet that keeps the region's electricity fully renewable, and is building Austria's largest pumped-storage plant to help balance Europe's grid.

🇩🇰 Denmark · Ørsted

Denmark's former state oil-and-coal utility rebuilt itself into the world's largest offshore wind developer, cutting emissions 98%.