Enercoop is a French electricity supplier. It is the only one in France in the form of a cooperative

Cooperative

A cooperative is a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit...

. Its founding members include Greenpeace

Greenpeace

Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, The Netherlands...

 and other leading actors of environmental protection

Environmental protection

Environmental protection is a practice of protecting the environment, on individual, organizational or governmental level, for the benefit of the natural environment and humans. Due to the pressures of population and our technology the biophysical environment is being degraded, sometimes permanently...

and the ethical economy.

Enercoop was created in 2005 and initially just had companies as clients. In July 2007 the French electricity market opened for individuals as well.

In September 2009, Enercoop had a total of 4,200 clients. Today (May 2011) they have 8,000 clients.

Enercoop's aim is to create many regional cooperatives around France where the local members can be in charge of all parts of the energy process from production to consumption. In this way Enercoop hopes to make citizens responsible for the energy they consume.

Enercoop only uses renewable energy.