ABSTRACT
European Union (EU) countries strive towards increasing their competitiveness and securing energy supplies by exploiting renewable sources of energy and reducing their impact on the environment. Innovation and regional clusters are one of the lenses through which energy transition in Europe and SMEs activity in the sector may be analysed. The article focuses on overviewing the 84 existing cluster organisations (COs) in the EU that specialise on the energy sector. Research has shown that such clusters exist in most EU countries and are growing in number, serving as platforms for communication and knowledge sharing between different stakeholders and focusing mostly on energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies. Such cluster organisations play an important role in energy transition projects in their regions, whilst the potential of other cluster initiatives still needs to be untapped.
