This deliverable presents the draft SOCIALNRG pilot blueprints as actionable, context sensitive pathways for establishing inclusive Renewable Energy Community (REC) solutions that address energy vulnerability in social housing and mixed-tenure
neighbourhoods. The blueprints translate co-creation insights and local diagnoses into a structured implementation framework, supporting partners in navigating early engagement, feasibility assessment, and preparatory decision-making. As such, they
should be read as living and provisional documents, reflecting the current state of pilot development rather than fully consolidated implementation models.

The primary target audience includes local authorities, social housing providers, energy community organisations, social services, and technical and financial intermediaries supporting community energy initiatives. The document is designed as a practical reference for actors seeking to develop REC models that remain accessible to vulnerable households while operating within evolving legal, technical, and organisational conditions.

SOCIALNRG applies a shared methodological backbone based on the four-stage community energy development framework (Inspiration, Preparation, Implementation, Operation), complemented by four cross-cutting workflows. While this common structure ensures comparability across pilots, the concrete activities and timelines presented here reflect draft assumptions and interim choices, shaped by current regulatory contexts, community readiness levels, and operational constraints. The methodological approach is described in detail in Chapter 4.1.

Across the three pilots—Cinisello Balsamo (Italy), Ravne na Koroškem (Slovenia), Mechelen (Belgium)—the co-creation process highlights consistent success conditions, including vulnerability-sensitive engagement formats, affordability safeguards, trustbuilding through transparent communication, and governance arrangements aligned with residents’ capacities. At the same time, the pilots are at different stages of maturity and face unresolved challenges that cannot yet be fully addressed within this draft.

For this reason, the present document should be understood as an intermediate blueprint. The final SOCIALNRG blueprints will be published in June 2027, following further implementation, monitoring, and learning. At that stage, greater clarity is expected
regarding regulatory developments, governance arrangements, and the ways in which the challenges identified in this draft have been effectively addressed or mitigated.