Legal Frameworks Enabling Not for Profit and Decentralised Renewable Energy Communities. Cases from the EU & ECOWAS

The article explores the energy transition in the EU and Africa. It deepens the research hypothesis of whether a commonsbased approach can be an effective strategy to ensure energy justice and energy poverty. This article therefore aims to explore the potential of community-led energy initiatives, such as energy communities. It then focuses on the European Union and ECOWAS, to open a vision of the North and South of the world, analyzing their energy policies and deepening through an empirical analysis three case studies as virtuous examples of not profit renewable energy production at the local level: Middelgrunden Offshore Windmill Cooperative, in Denmark, Melpignano Cooperative, in Italy and Bboxx Energy, in Togo.