For municipalities
Background
You request transport capacity on behalf of housing projects and wait to see whether an offer comes. Meanwhile schools, pumping stations, charging hubs and your own buildings end up on the same substations.
With the grid operator you work on expansion, and with the province you explore energy hubs. Good steps. To steer them, you need one coherent picture the organisation can get behind.
In short
We bring all plans together into one demand picture per substation, set it against the grid operator's capacity and turn the bottlenecks into decisions for the municipality.
“With its own demand picture and a concrete offer, the municipality becomes the grid operator's counterpart instead of an applicant.”
Enter a postcode to see the grid status for taking power and feeding in, per area.
Themes
We start where you are now and keep the whole picture in view. Six themes we help with most often:
Approach
Throughout, we bring the grid operator to the table: public grid data first, then a targeted information request and a joint working session that links your projects to its substations.
Housing, schools and your own facilities: per project the capacity, the year and the substation. Where something is missing, we use substantiated benchmarks.
Demand per substation per year, with a realistic view of how much demand happens at the same time and in two scenarios, including how stations affect each other.
Where and when demand exceeds capacity, which projects that affects and what it means for the planning.
Per bottleneck what the municipality can do itself, with effect, cost and role: phasing, grid-aware requirements, energy hubs, flexible contracts and own facilities.
Result
All projects with capacity, year and substation. A shared basis for spatial planning, housing and energy.
Demand per station per year, in two scenarios. Shows what the plans ask for together.
Where and when it clashes, and which projects that affects. The basis for prioritising and for the conversation with the grid operator.
Measures with effect, cost and role, including what you can offer the grid operator.
Key message, decisions and next steps in a short presentation for the management team or council.
Scope and requirements for delivery, so you can put the assignment out to the market.
We sell no hardware or electricity and are not affiliated with any grid operator. Our advice is about what works for your municipality.
We work for grid operators such as Liander and Enexis on congestion management, and for municipalities on housing and area development.
Results that fit straight into council papers, the conversation with the grid operator and a request to the market.
In half an hour we discuss where your municipality stands and what a quickscan delivers.
Bart Louwerenburg
In practice
Case 01 · Mid-sized municipality
Screened own sites for flexibility, proposed temporary batteries and requested congestion profiles from the grid operator on behalf of the municipality.
A full substation. How do you still get housing and facilities connected?
A housing project could not start and a new school could only be connected in more than ten years.
Case 02 · National infrastructure manager
Consumption per station tested against capacity and growth, per quarter hour as the grid operator bills.
Route set per station, calculated on grid tariffs, and free capacity worked out as an offer.
Less transport capacity than requested. How big is the problem really?
Case 03 · Municipal site, northern Netherlands
Translated public data into a profile per month and part of day, held the conversation with the right departments and assessed two placement options.
A site with a public function on a substation that is overloaded in winter.
How often and how heavily is the station overloaded, is the forecast right, and what does it deliver if the municipality offers flexibility itself?
Case 04 · Campus with expansion
Shifted load between connections, sized the remainder, tested it against PGS 37 (the Dutch safety guideline for battery storage) and set down the requirements for the tender.
A new building that needs a lot of power day and night, while grid reinforcement is years away.
How do we absorb the growth without waiting? Which battery, in which place, and what goes into the tender?
Your own sites count
Pumping stations, solar parks and buildings are part of the solution.
Facts in the conversation
How often, how long and when it pinches.
Ready for the market
Ready to use for a tender or procurement.
How we start
Step 1 · Quickscan
Based on your own plans and public grid data, ready for the management team or council. Sets the scope and starting points for what follows.
Step 2 · Follow-up study
With the grid operator at the table, in three to six months. Not a full-time effort: the lead time depends mostly on data and decision-making. You choose how you procure it.
| Phase | Weeks |
|---|---|
Inventory and grid operator | 4 to 8 |
Demand picture per substation | 3 to 6 |
Bottlenecks | 2 to 4 |
Course of action | 4 to 8 |
Engagement lead and fixed point of contact for the municipality
Demand picture, profiles and grid capacity per substation
Contracts, flexibility and the conversation with the grid operator
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