Our vision for a decentralized, community-driven energy future—where power is produced, shared, and managed locally, and energy becomes a consensus built to endure regulatory and geopolitical change.
The liberalisation of Switzerland’s electricity market, set for 2026, and its reintegration into the EU’s energy framework mark a turning point—not only for infrastructure, but for the political and institutional logic that governs it. These shifts are often framed in terms of efficiency and competition. But beneath the surface lies a deeper question: who governs the energy sector, and to what end?
A major risk is to adhere to the politized opposition between state monopoly and market logics. Instead, there is a third path: structured, decentralised systems that are governed locally and built to endure the storms of broader regulatory and economic frameworks. At the heart of this idea is a model based on community-scale energy production and consumption—produce electricity on our roofs, store it in our basements, and then use it to heat and cool our buildings, charge our cars and drive our lives. This model, self-consumption energy communities, is the bedrock of energy sovereignty for the future.
At the heart of Qanta’s model is a belief in energy infrastructure as a common good—energy not as a commodity to be traded, but as a shared resource to be governed democratically. Energy connects all of us. And by enabling energy communities to co-design their systems, offering predictable pricing in a volatile market, we champion an approach that is both democratic and technically rigorous.
“We’re not just building assets—we’re building the next-generation utility: sustainable, decentralized, resilient, and governed by those it serves.” Pierre-Loïc Caïjo, Qanta CEO
This is not a utopian vision. It is a pragmatic one. Governance is layered: municipalities as co-shareholders, communities as participants, general public and businesses as consumers, Qanta as operator and steward. The platform is not a black box; it is a tool for interaction, optimisation, and—where possible—democratic engagement. In this model, energy is not just produced and consumed. It is a consensus.
What emerges is a quiet but radical proposition: that infrastructure can be built to last, not by insulating it from wider political trends through protectionism, but by embedding it in a plural, transparent, and adaptive structure. In a moment of regulatory flux and geopolitical uncertainty, energy demand cannot wait for political clarity. We need to build systems that work for people—now, and whatever world comes next.
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