Building energy and flexibility markets together

The Local4Local project is an initiative of Dutch energy cooperatives to achieve an integrated, sustainable, collective energy supply in which the end user pays no more than cost+ for energy, with minimized impact on the local energy infrastructure. An important role in this is played by the cooperative suppliers OM Nieuwe Energie, Energie VanOns and AGEM to enable these peer-to-peer exchanges of energy at cost+ price for the cooperatives and their members.

ENTRNCE is part of the Local4Local consortium and, as a facilitator of the cost price+ model, contributes directly to this important social development. Through the ENTRNCE platform, energy communities can trade their residual volumes of cooperatively generated electricity at cost with other energy communities.

Key points:

• Sustainable, local energy supply

• Cost+ model for energy exchange

• Flexible peer-to-peer exchange

Within the Mooi EIGEN project, ENTRNCE, together with Firan and Shared Energy Platform (SEP), is developing the Energy Hub Platform. This platform enables energy hubs at business parks to monitor and control their assets to meet the terms of a Group Transmission Agreement or a collective Capacity Limiting Contract. The platform can also receive bids from assets for capacity reduction and distribute any (GOPACS) fees to assets. In doing so, ENTRNCE and the project partners are providing a platform that can directly address current congestion issues.

Key points:

• Creating and ensuring a program plan

• Receiving and acting on GOPACS signals.

• Managing assets

• Market Algorithm

Haike van de Vegte | Senior Business Developer | Firan: "The Energy Hub Platform offers a smart solution to the congestion problem on business parks. Together with ENTRNCE and SEP, we support entrepreneurs to make the best use of renewable energy and realize collective ambitions."

The Global Observatory on Peer-to-Peer, Collective Self-Consumption and Transactive Energy ('GO-P2P') is a global network of companies, universities, and other research institutions active in the world of P2P. The goal of this consortium is to share data, experiences with P2P, and suggestions with each other by holding meetings several times a year. ENTRNCE thus seeks to contribute to the global rollout of P2P and learn lessons from others who have encountered barriers that we still expect in the Netherlands.

Key points:

• Sharing data

• Spreading the lessons of P2P

• Learning from other P2P projects

Sjoerd Doumen | Local Energy Market Expert | ENTRNCE: "Through GO-P2P, we try to share our lessons of P2P and at the same time learn from other projects so that we advance in the Netherlands and P2P worldwide."