ENERGY 4.0
“ THERE ARE A number of reasons why innovative ideas or project concepts are , in the end , not succeeding or are not considered a success in terms of current volatile markets ,” explains Giel Mertens , Consultant at Bax & Company . “ One of our core values is to bring these projects alive and bring these projects to market .”
That ’ s exactly what Spanish consultancy company Bax & Company is doing in the Netherlands . As the government bylaw constrains households from selling surplus energy back to the grid , a small town is introduced to a new way of managing energy .
Eemnes , a small municipality with a strong interest in sustainability and an already high rate of personal-use solar panels , is the first place in Europe to test a peer-to-peer energy trading system . The pilot uses blockchain software as a catalyst , which has been developed by Belgian tech provider Enervalis in partnership with Bax & Company . The latter considers
12 March 2018