Smart Energy Sharing
Organisation: Cooperative Energy Together i.c.w. KIVI Electrical Engineering Department
Clean Energy Package
Through the Clean Energy Package, the European Commission aims to promote active consumer participation in the energy system. The Netherlands implements this by, among others:
- stimulating energy communities
- stimulating collective renewable production through the Subsidieregeling Coöperatieve Energieopwekking
- the Development Fund for Energy Cooperatives
- aiming for 50% of production to be owned by the local environment (citizens and companies)
Energy Communities
Supported by these policies, energy communities in most villages and towns are actively implementing local, collective and renewable generation. In doing so, energy communities are making an important contribution to the energy transition, while at the same time making their members less financially dependent on existing energy prices that are rising due to developments in the international gas market. Profits from their own local production are then reused for other projects, such as collective heat projects or collective shared mobility.
Supply and sharing
European regulations distinguish between supply and sharing of energy. In contrast to supply, energy sharing is not yet sufficiently sharply defined, which is why many member states currently do little with it or give it their own interpretation. The Netherlands, too, has not yet developed the concept of energy sharing. So in our legislation, and even in the Energy Bill, energy sharing does not appear, it only talks about supplying energy with or without a licence.
If more and more people start importing electricity, the grid may become overloaded. It is smarter to purchase or store more electricity at the same time. The webinar explains what smart energy sharing is, how it works and what it takes to implement it.
Energy Together
Energie Samen is the national umbrella and interest group for energy cooperatives and associations and other energy communities of citizens, farmers and/or local businesses.
Speakers:
The webinar will be given by
- Siward Zomer(cooperative director Energy Together)
- Leon Straathof(Advisor grid infrastructure and regulation Energie Samen) and
- Peter Hermans(Opgewekt Houten, energy expert)
Links:
Here also comes the link of the recording for watching back!
Energy Together: https://energiesamen.nu/
Whitepaper Smart Energy Sharing