Som Energia Platform

Submitted by wtebbens on Wed, 12/03/2014 - 12:21

Som Energia is a Spanish cooperative social movement that has three main funtions 1) it commercialises 100% renewable electricity to the Spanish homes; 2) cooperativists collectively invest in installations to generate renewable electricity and 3) a social movement that shares knowledge and activism to build up pressure to change the electricity market in favour of a distributed renewable energy system.

Physical address:

C/Pic de Peguera, 11

Ala A, despatx A.2.08

17003 Girona

Spain

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Information

Homepage:

http://somenergia.coop/

Phone:

+34.972.183.386

Contact page:

http://www.somenergia.coop/contacte

Type of activity:

Collaborative consumption

Scope:

National

The most important type of collaboration:

Building collective process

Type of common resource resulting:

Resource

Service

Methodology

Other information:

While the generation and provision of energy to its members could be seen as a form of commons (collaborative economy), that part is not fully organised as peer production - mainly because of the way the Spanish electricity grid is legislated. However the platform for collective action and knowledge sharing is a fully peer produced platform, from the infraestructure itself to the content generated inside of it. It is governed as a commons both through f2f assemblies and online discussions and contributions to code, translations, content, group methodologies. The platform uses the Elgg software (http://elgg.org).

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Organisation Type:

Business

Legal entity:

for profit organization

Year of foundation:

2010

Language(s) of the platform: