About the project
After Greece set a legal framework in 2018 to boost citizen and community renewable energy and give rights to communities to participate in the energy transition – alongside similar moves by the EU in its renewable directives – citizens in Athens decided to take energy back into their own hands.
Hyperion currently consists of 70 members of various backgrounds – from students to engineers to accountants. The project is building up solar parks in Athens.
It uses a virtual net-metering scheme, meaning that the energy they generate is fed into the grid, while Hyperion’s members see get a corresponding reduction in ther energy bills, corresponding to the energy they produced. This is particularly important in Greece, where a large segment of the population faces varying degrees of energy poverty and rising energy prices.
