Energy community Waldviertel Mitte: Sustainable power supply starts 2025!

Energy community Waldviertel Mitte: Sustainable power supply starts 2025!

The future of energy supply in the Waldviertel region takes shape! The newly founded renewable energy community (EEG) Waldviertel Mitte plans to start in February 2025. This community initiative of the municipalities of Zwettl and Schweiggers pursues an ambitious goal: sustainable energy use that strengthens the local economy and at the same time brings ecological advantages. City Councilor Erich Stern emphasizes: "Together we pull together to bring the value creation of the key industry to our energy in Waldviertel", which underlines the great importance of this project.

great interest in the initiative

Already at the first information event on November 28, 2024 in Schweiggers, the immense interest of the population was clearly expressed. Here the representatives of the EEG informed about the possibilities that arise from the joint use of locally generated electricity. The main focus is on receiving the electricity from the region, relieving the networks and promoting both the electricity consumption and local production. This measure not only enables improved energy efficiency, but also ensures the economic strength of the region, as Klaus Binder, the chairman of the EEG Waldviertel Mitte, explains: "The Waldviertel community of energy strengthens our region sustainably."

All private individuals, communities, associations, and small and medium -sized companies (SMEs) from the supply area of ​​the Zwettl substation, which includes the municipality of Zwettl, Schweiggers and the surrounding areas. This could create the basis for a new, local energy future, which is both ecologically sustainable and economically advantageous, as meinbezirk.at underlines this initiative.

according to Noen.at In the middle of the region, the EEG Waldviertel will promote the added value in the region significantly by using renewable energies. The project therefore stands for an ecological turn, but also for the strengthening of the regional economy.