DECA
DECA
DECA (Danube Energy Communities Accelerator) comprises 12 project partners and aims to accelerate renewable energy communities throughout the Danube region via confidence building, experience exchange and structuring a strategy for success. This project aims to employ the underutilised natural resources of the region to kindle local prosperity and provide energy independence, something useful in times of international uncertainty.
Capacity development to boost community energy renewable energy projects across the Danube Region
Citizen-owned energy is key to fully utilising natural resources and providing energy autarky. We envisage several co-benefits of community energy action including cost-savings, employment opportunities, improved energy security, community reinvestment skills development, improved social connections, resilience and warmer homes.
DECA is funded by the Interreg Programme for the Danube Region and involves 12 partners, including societies, renewable technology centres, and agencies for development and business support. It will test decentralized renewable energy solutions and empower future sustainable communities. This will be achieved through training development, toolkit creation, and strategy formulation, with insights feeding into a comprehensive DECA Strategy.
Alpine Pearls will represent Austria and take from the relative success already in the nation of some 300+ RECs (Renewable Energy Communities), bringing not only the success factors but also the challenges to the table, to share experience and develop learning and study visits for others. Drawing from the Pearls’ experience in renewable energy and sustainable development too, collaborative models will be established to serve as templates for scaling similar local energy projects across the region.