Debrecen4U March 12, 2026

VOSZ to Establish a Renewable Energy-based Energy Community in Debrecen

For small and medium-sized enterprises, group energy procurement can mean more favourable energy prices and therefore improved competitiveness. A more advanced form of cooperation is the consumption-based energy cooperative. The framework for this has already been created in Hungary with the involvement of the National Council of Cooperatives.

“The National Council of Cooperatives has developed an organisational structure suitable for energy communities, meaning that there is an economic corporate form that could potentially operate such a system; we call this an energy cooperative,” said Lajos Kósa, President of the organisation.

Local production of green energy, temporary storage when necessary, and use according to demand – this is the essence of the new programme of the National Association of Entrepreneurs and Employers, which aims to establish energy communities based on energy cooperatives. The first exemplary pilot project will be implemented in Debrecen.

“In the Debrecen energy community, even in the first phase of the project we will be able to replace 50 per cent of the annual energy consumption for both industrial consumers and residents,” promised Zsolt Gyalog, President of the Energy Section of the National Association of Entrepreneurs and Employers (VOSZ).

The Debrecen pilot project, which coordinates the production and use of renewable energy, is in line with the city’s sustainability ambitions, and according to the plans of the National Association of Entrepreneurs and Employers, similar green energy communities will eventually be established in every county seat in Hungary.

Source and photo credit: dehir.hu