Goodbye to oil and bills: in Holland, renewable energy is exchanged with neighbors

    You don't have the possibility to install a photovoltaic panel, but would you like to power your home with clean energy? What if to say goodbye to fossils it was enough to buy renewable energy from a neighbor? It's the idea of ​​a startup in the Netherlands that has created an Airbnb-style site to exchange electricity.



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    You don't have the possibility to install a photovoltaic panel, but would you like to power your home with clean energy? And if that was enough to say goodbye to fossils to buy renewable energy from a neighbor? It is the idea of ​​a startup in the Netherlands that has created a site in stile Airbnb per exchange electricity.

    Yep, you got it right. The sharing economy is coming to the energy sector. In the future, we may be buying energy from each other, just as we now exchange houses or books. vandebron, this is the name of the start-up, already doing it, putting in contact consumers and independent producers, such as, for example, farmers with wind turbines in their fields. Energy companies in this scenario? They just don't exist.

    “We found the idea was simple, 'Why can't I buy power from a farmer who has wind? We started working on it and found that it was an easy thing, but the project was rather complex ", admits one of the founders of Vandebron, Remco Wilcke.

    Consumers log into the website, specify what type of contract they want (annual, three-year) and how much electricity they would need. They can then choose which producer to turn to, which has its own dedicated page to describe itself and its production. For example, farmers Bernard and Karin Kadijk they live in the north of Holland, they have a wind turbine and produce enough energy for 600 families. If the deal pleases, we move on to the exchange of names and data.

    Goodbye to oil and bills: in Holland, renewable energy is exchanged with neighbors

    There are currently 12 producers on the site, capable of providing enough energy for around 20.000 households. Put simply, here's a way to say goodbye to fossil and increasingly expensive bills, choosing sustainable energy at a best price.



    And the consumers they always know who they are buying energy from, just like when you shop at your trusted farmer.

    Roberta Ragni

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