A year of growth, clarity, and the first steps toward our next decade

As 2025 comes to a close, we look back at a year that has reshaped Engreen in depth—its identity, its strategy, and the way we build impact with partners and communities. What began six years ago as a small team driven by a shared vision has now become a structured organisation operating across Europe and Africa, able to move from ideas to implementation with an increasingly integrated approach.

This year, more than ever, we understood one thing clearly: the energy transition becomes real only when someone takes responsibility for connecting strategy, engineering, people, and long-term operations.
In 2025, Engreen chose to take that responsibility.

A clearer identity: Sustainability as a Service

In 2025, we clarified the way we express who we are and how we work. Engreen’s new identity was shaped by a simple need: to communicate our value more clearly. 

Sustainability as a Service reflects our integrated, hands-on and outcome-driven approach to the energy transition — turning strategies into real projects and supporting institutions, businesses and communities with method, technical expertise and collaboration. A clearer identity for the same mission, now communicated with greater strength and coherence.

Community Energy: a new narrative for Italy

2025 marked a turning point for community energy in Italy.
Across Pineto, Valsesia, Antrodoco, Postua, Guardabosone, and many other territories, we supported municipalities and citizens in designing Renewable Energy Communities that focus not only on incentives, but on trust, solidarity, and shared governance.

With Newton Cooperative, we launched new campaigns for SMEs, installers, and municipalities, and we developed replicable models that show how a community can take ownership of its energy future. The first CER in Pineto is now active, and many more are on their way.

Community energy is no longer only a technical process—it has become a social infrastructure. And Engreen is helping shape it.

EU and AU–EU innovation: research that becomes reality

Across Horizon, LIFE, AICS, and innovation programmes, Engreen played a central role in bringing applied research closer to the field.

• MUSE-DHC advanced community-led district heating with Living Labs and the first co-designed solutions.
  
• SUPREMAS connected biomass valorisation to local energy networks, opening new opportunities for Italian municipalities.
  
• CIRCOSOL demonstrated how solar energy can strengthen rural economies in Mozambique, supporting both farmers and fishers.
  
• ANEW LIFE laid the groundwork for community-led reconstruction and green DHC models in Ukraine, in view of COP30.
  
• HarvRESt, E-BUSCO, EnergyGuard, HARMONISE expanded our work on agrivoltaics, transport–energy synergies, and data-driven systems.
  

Across all of these projects, Engreen stood out as the partner that turns scientific insights into actionable solutions, connecting design, governance, and long-term implementation.

Engreen Africa: Dakar as a regional hub

2025 was also the year we formally consolidated Engreen Africa, with Dakar now acting as our reference point for West Africa.

We strengthened partnerships with ministries, utilities, private developers, and innovation actors across Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, and The Gambia.
Our role in regional events such as MSGBC Dakar and REFA increased our visibility, while capacity-building programmes and mini-grid advisory activities expanded our on-ground presence.

The vision is clear: to make Engreen a regional competence centre for decentralised energy and applied innovation in Africa.

And 2025 set the foundation for that mission.

EPC and Engineering: keeping our hands on the field

Our engineering and EPC work continued to grow, with dozens of photovoltaic and energy efficiency interventions delivered across public buildings, industrial sites, rural areas, and private homes. Agrivoltaic systems, storage integration, EV charging, and compliance support reinforced our position as a team that knows how to plan—but also how to build.

This hands-on capacity remains one of Engreen’s greatest strengths, and it is what allows our integrated model to work.

Training and capacity building

From Morocco to Italy, from RES4Africa trainings to workshops for municipalities and EU partners, 2025 was a year in which we invested heavily in knowledge sharing.

We strengthened our training activities and expanded our role in professional development across projects and regions.
For us, training is not an accessory — it is a core part of how we make sustainability accessible, democratic, and scalable.

A stronger organisation, ready for the next phase

Internally, Engreen made a leap forward: new workflows, new templates, digital processes, multidisciplinarity, updated OKRs, and clearer priorities. 

These are not just organisational improvements—they are the infrastructure that will support our growth over the next years.

Looking ahead to 2026

As we move into 2026, Engreen is entering a new phase of maturity and scale.

The foundations laid this year—in our identity, our partnerships, our internal processes, and our technical capabilities—will guide a future where our work becomes even more integrated, international, and grounded in real implementation.

In the coming year, we will strengthen our role in Europe, Africa, and Latin America, deepen our involvement in research and innovation, expand our support to communities and municipalities, and consolidate our presence in key markets and events.
We will continue developing applied solutions that connect engineering, people, governance, and long-term sustainability, while investing in digitalisation, training, and international collaboration.

2026 will be a year focused on expansion, operational quality, and strategic positioning—a step forward in making Engreen a reference point for decentralised energy systems and applied sustainability.

Thank you

To our partners, municipalities, communities, universities, developers, donors, and the extraordinary teams we collaborate with: thank you for trusting the direction we are building together.

And to everyone inside Engreen—engineers, researchers, designers, communications specialists, managers, facilitators, and field teams—thank you for proving every day that sustainability is something we do, not something we say.

Here’s to a 2026 where we continue to imagine—and build—a new shape for energy.