Your community's energy, shared locally.

ERMESH helps energy communities use the power they produce themselves: share it between members, keep it running when the grid fails, and settle it fairly.

Talk to us How it works

What is ERMESH?

A cooperative

ERMESH eG is a cooperative under Liechtenstein law. Its members are energy communities, and they decide together.

For energy communities

Households, farms and businesses that produce and share energy in their own area.

Why now

Being self-sufficient together is becoming urgent for households, farms and businesses alike.

  • Net metering is ending. Poland (2022), Greece (2024) and Italy (2025) stopped it for new installations; the Netherlands follows on 1 January 2027. Power sent to the grid is worth less; power used locally keeps its value.
  • Energy has become uncertain. Since the 2022 energy crisis, prices swing more, and the 2025 blackout in Spain and Portugal showed how quickly whole countries can lose power.
  • Budgets are tight. Inflation has cut purchasing power. Sharing local energy lowers the bills of every member, not only of those with solar panels.
  • The grid is full. Long waiting lists delay new connections for solar, batteries and charging.
  • Rules are getting stricter. New rules on energy sharing, data, cybersecurity and the environment are hard for one company or farm to meet, technically and financially, but manageable together.

How it works

Each community gets its own Enclave Secured Habitat (ESH): one clearly bounded area, with one cooperative, one agreement with the grid operator and one shared pool of local energy.

1 · PRODUCE

Local power

Sun, wind and farm biogas, allowing for continuing power at any hour.

2 · STORE

Batteries and charging

Store the midday surplus; charge cars when power is plentiful.

3 · CONNECT

Local network

Meters and installations talk to each other, even without internet.

4 · KEEP RUNNING

During outages

If the grid fails, the area runs on its own and essential services come first.

ERMs: local energy, settled fairly

Members settle local energy in Energy Rights of Members (ERMs).

  • A right to local energy. Members who deliver energy receive ERMs; members who use energy spend them.
  • Not money, not an investment. ERMs are used only for energy inside the community.
  • Clear shared rules. The ERM Guidelines are available to member communities on request.

How to join

  1. 1

    Talk

    Tell us about your community and your area.

  2. 2

    Study

    We check together what an ESH can do for your members.

  3. 3

    Pilot

    Design, grid agreement and a first pilot with members.

  4. 4

    Run

    Your members run the ESH; the cooperative supports it.

First pilots are being prepared in the Netherlands.

Interested?

Write to us about your energy community, or ask for the ERM Guidelines.

info@ermesh.coop