Abstract
This paper contributes to clarify roles community council in making process of community-based renewable energy(RE) project through case study about seven cases including Odawara city. Case study was conducted from three viewpoints -resource mobilization, stakeholder involvement, and effectiveness of decision. As a result, three points as following are clarified; 1) municipality can play the role of publicity in site selection; 2) selection of member who can coordinate opinions between members is important to manage community council; and 3) coupling process of making RE vision and making project is important problem for effective decision about method of fund-raise and profit reduction to community.
