Founder Gijsbert Huijink | Founded 11 December 2010 | |
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cadena ser entrevista a som energia
Som Energia is a renewable energies cooperative that was officially founded in December 2010, making it the first of its kind in Catalonia. The project to create the cooperative was begun in November 2009 by a group of former students and lecturers at University of Girona and other contributors, with the objective of setting up something similar to initiatives such as Ecopower (Flanders) or Enercoop (France). Som Energia intends to offer its members the possibility of consuming energy from sources that are 100% renewable at a price similar to conventional energy, as well as developing its own renewable energy projects. On June 2013, the cooperative had over 8000 members, had invested over 3 million euro in renewable energy production projects, had produced over 350.000 kWh and employed 7 people.