Coopérnico, cooperativa de desenvolvimento sustentável
Coopérnico is a Portuguese co-operative founded in 2013 by a group of citizens who wanted to become an active and participatory player in the renewable energy market.
The cooperative's first projects consisted of installing photovoltaic plants on the roofs of social economy institutions, in order to decentralise electricity production in Portugal and promote the energy autonomy of the various entities participating in the partnership model. This production model, which relies on solar energy, is the one mostly used.