Name and job title: Siward Zomer, Director ODE Decentraal Board member REScoop.EU Siward Zomer director of ODE Decentraal the Dutch Federation of Energy Co-operatives and President of De Windvogel. a Dutch windco-operative with 3300 members. He is also board member of REScoop.EU, the European federation of groups and cooperatives of citizens for renewable energy in Europe. Siward graduated at the University of Birmingham with a MA thesis on the social and political aspects of the development of renewable energy. After his MA he continued to study the social, cultural and political aspects in the development of wind turbines.