| 1. EKOenergy's annual report - Get inspired for 2022 |
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 In 2021, we continued to relentlessly promote renewable energy in many ways and achieved numerous concrete results. We welcomed new EKOenergy users of all sizes, financed new renewable energy projects in off-grid villages and received the European Citizen's Prize from the European Parliament. You can read more about the various dimensions of our work and about many of our concrete achievements in EKOenergy's annual report EKOenergy ecolabel in 2021. Thanks a lot to all those who were involved, in particular to the growing group of EKOenergy users and licensees. Our work for a 100% sustainable world wouldn't be possible without you. Seeing the concrete impact of our work in 2021 gives us the vigour to continue with the same enthusiasm in 2022, and we hope that all of you will join. There are many hopeful signs that the energy transition is on its way and speeding up worldwide. But it is clearly not going fast enough. Let's continue creating an extra positive impact together in 2022! |
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| "The on-site produced solar energy will power a facility that manufactures equipment for the treatment of industrial and urban wastewater and sludge treatment in the town of Villavaquerín (Valladolid, Spain)." |
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| 2. Call for EKOenergy Climate Fund project proposals still open |
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 For each MWh of EKOenergy consumption, our licensees contribute 0.10€ to our Climate Fund for financing new clean energy projects in developing countries. As we announced in our December newsletter, our call for solar and wind energy projects is open until 15 February 2022. Experienced non-profit organisations are welcome to submit proposals that meet the guidelines. We are looking to finance 6 to 8 projects, costing about 10,000€ to 40,000€ each. All received applications will be ranked based on the five evaluation criteria described in the call. These include, for example, the involvement of local communities and the replicability of the project. |
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| 3. 150th newsletter - Do your colleagues receive our news too? |
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 We published our first newsletter in November 2012, in the months before the launch of our ecolabel, and the number of subscribers has been growing steadily throughout the years. Please check if your colleagues who might be interested are receiving our newsletter too. You can let us know if we need to add others to the mailing list. Also, feel free to use the information from our newsletters to inform others about our work. Never hesitate to contact us if you want more information about a specific topic. If English is a problem, you can use the translation function (available on desktop/laptop computers only) which provides a machine translation in more than 40 different languages. |
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| "We are bottling our Villivesi products entirely with renewable energy: domestic EKOenergy-labelled wind power and our own solar panels." |
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| 4. What can you communicate as an EKOenergy user? |
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 EKOenergy's licensees and users of EKOenergy-labelled energy can use our logo in their communication. Note that our ecolabel is added to a MWh of renewable energy - EKOenergy is never an ecolabel for a production installation nor for a company. The rules for the use of our logo are explained in our brand book. To complement our brand book, we have also summarised the basics in our new one-pager What can you communicate as an EKOenergy user?. The same leaflet is available in Spanish too: ¿Qué puede comunicar como usuario de EKOenergía? Other translations will follow. If you want to follow the example of many others and use our logo in your communication, get in touch and we will be happy to help! |
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| "Unfortunately, we are once again seeing claims that volatility in gas and electricity markets is the result of the clean energy transition. These assertions are misleading to say the least. This is not a renewables or a clean energy crisis; this is a natural gas market crisis. (...) As we showed in our recent World Energy Outlook 2021, well managed clean energy transitions can help reduce energy market volatility and its impacts on businesses and consumers." |
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| 5. Leaflets about recently finished projects |
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| 6. EKOenergy on social media |
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 By following EKOenergy on social media, you get relevant updates about the climate crisis, renewable energy and EKOenergy's activities worldwide. Here are some recent posts: |
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| "Governments need to significantly improve renewable electricity procurement options and reduce regulatory hurdles that are stopping businesses from transitioning to net-zero." |
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| 7. The last 7 years were the warmest on record, by a clear margin |
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 In its latest annual assessment, the Copernicus Climate Change Service confirmed that globally, the last seven years have been the hottest on record "by a clear margin", and it raised the alarm over sharp increases in record concentrations of methane in the atmosphere. 2021 has joined the unbroken warm streak since 2015. The annual average temperature was 1.1 to 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, measured between 1850 and 1900. In recent years, countries around the world have been blasted by a relentless assault of weather disasters linked to global warming, including record-shattering wildfires across Australia and Siberia, a once-in-1000-years heatwave in North America and extreme rainfall that caused massive flooding in Asia, Africa, the US and Europe. Let there be no confusion: the warmest years on record so far may be cold compared to what we can expect in the coming decades if we don't manage to stabilise the greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere very fast, in particular by banning all fossil fuels. The first 3 paragraphs are based on an article from France24 - Visual: Financial Times, 10 January 2022. |
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We at EKOenergy are always enthusiastic to collaborate with new partners.
For further information, please do not hesitate to get in touch. |
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On our social media, you can find regular updates of ongoing projects financed by our Climate Fund and Environmental Fund. In the past week, we posted photos from a 
