Working together on innovative solutions
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Theme definition
To keep up with the changing energy landscape and be ready for future developments, it is vital that we be able to apply new technologies, working methods and solutions. With this in mind, we are teaming up with our primary partners in working on innovative solutions.
Stakeholder expectation
To keep up with the changing energy landscape and be ready for future developments, it is vital that we are able to apply new technologies, working methods and solutions. Customers expect flexible and reliable networks, enabling them to feed in energy whenever they want.
Our long-term objective
Technical and economic developments make new solutions both feasible and necessary. Alliander wants to do its bit by facilitating the energy transition. Our objective is to have offered all customers a smart energy meter by 2020.
Contribution from Alliander
The energy transition demands new and smart applications for the energy networks. Alliander invests in these smart technologies to facilitate the transition to a sustainable society, while continuing to guarantee reliability of supply. In 2019, the amount of solar and wind energy that customers fed into our network increased strongly. In addition, we started a major pilot for smart e-vehicle charging and made improvements for better network management. We also worked on a flexibility market in Nijmegen-Noord to gain experience matching the supply and demand of energy in case upgrading the network in the short term is not possible or recommended. Through our business operations, we are discovering new markets. Realisation of planned smart meter offering in 2019: 624,000 smart meters offered.
Relationship with Alliander impact model: intellectual capital
Technology, new market models and platforms contribute to positive intellectual capital. We want to track and analyse the exact social effects in greater detail.
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Long-term regulatory focus, capacity for change