DEC Energy announces first client ahead of the next financing round

Companies all around Europe are facing new regulatory requirements and searching for solutions to make part of their energy consumption renewable. DEC Energy, a startup founded by USI students and incubated at the USI Startup Centre, has built a B2B marketplace that connects corporates and photovoltaic plant providers, enabling them to self-produce renewable energy certificates while significantly reducing their energy costs. In the last few weeks, the DEC team has launched their platform and onboarded the first client and is now looking to raise additional funds to support further growth.

Existing sustainability regulations and market trends require companies to ensure a specific percentage of their electricity consumption from renewable resources. Currently, this is possible only by purchasing Guarantees of Origin (GOs), government-issued certificates, which can lead to additional procurement costs of up to 10%. DEC Energy provides a platform that allows companies to self-produce these certificates and cut energy costs while making compliance easier and reducing green energy procurement costs by up to 20%.

Through the DEC Energy's platform, companies can rent solar panels from different photovoltaics plants across Europe, thus allowing them to reduce Scope 2 emissions without buying GOs on the market, lower energy procurement costs, and potentially generate additional revenues. On the supply side, photovoltaic plant providers are able to benefit from immediate revenues generated by asset rental. The platform, launched last week, is already operative. The first client from Switzerland has rented a photovoltaic plant, producing 117 MWh/year, while a larger order of 7.5 GWh/year was placed by an Italian fashion company, with the deal expected to close in Q2 2025.

Financing round and next milestones

Following the successful platform launch, with 22 corporates in the pipeline and several partnership discussion with market leaders, DEC Energy is now raising CHF 1.2M in seed capital, of which CHF 300K already committed, to expand its team, accelerate market penetration and further enhance its technology to drive the digitalisation of the renewable energy industry, with the goal of reaching 1’500+ corporates. Nicola Scarinzi, Co-Founder and CEO, commented: 

"Our vision is to make corporate renewable energy procurement even cheaper than the non-renewable one, with the highest quality of certificates. These additional funds will enable us to bring our disruptive innovation to even more European corporates for their and our planet's benefit!"

For more information on DEC Energy, please visit https://dec-energy.ch/en.