Anthony Elliott

Dirk Vansintjan

Co-founder and President of REScoop.eu

About the contributor

Dirk Vansintjan

Dirk Vansintjan is the Co-founder and President of REScoop.eu, the European renewable energy cooperative federation, since 2013. He is also the Co-founder and a board member of REScoop Vlaanderen, the Flemish federation for renewable energy cooperatives and the Co-founder and Vice-president of REScoop.be, the Belgian federation for renewable energy cooperatives.
He has also co-founded Molenforum-Vlaanderen, a federation of mill conservation societies in Flanders, as well as ODE-Vlaanderen and Ecopower, a renewable energy cooperative in Flanders.

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Dirk Vansintjan

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