Of course, the Netherlands must adhere to the Paris Climate Agreement (pdf) and its own goals regarding the use and extraction of gas. But that's the Netherlands, that's not me! At the moment, consumers, apart from fanatics and early adopters , see little reason to switch. While those reasons do exist. The use of CO2 changes our climate, no matter what climate sceptics claim.
An important aspect of this article is how to put a topic like sustainability (which has a general interest, if you are not a climate sceptic) on the agenda. And perhaps even more important: how can you ensure that it is taken up, such as more solar panels? As an individual you have no (measurable) influence on the climate, but together you do. Together in this case is as a citizen, company and government. For companies it can be a USP (Unique Selling Proposition). For the government it makes climate goals more feasible and as an individual a cleaner and liveable world for everyone.
Solar energy is clean, easy to generate and high school senior mailing list can in principle make a family independent(er) of energy companies with sufficient panels and storage capacity. However, the sun does not always shine, but the need for energy is always there. How do you deal with this?
In Berlin, SolarWatt recently introduced its second generation of energy storage systems , which can store the excess of generated energy. A solution that can be important for the Netherlands, especially in the future. Because the sun does not always shine, but the need for energy is constant. The reason that it is especially for the future, is netting.
Without netting, SolarWatt becomes interesting
In the Netherlands, the electricity network is actually our storage. We supply too much solar energy to the network and what we supply, we can also take away again. Supply and consumption are currently at the same rate. This will remain the case until 2023. In addition, it is likely that netting will be phased out or even disappear completely. And then it becomes financially interesting to have your own storage, because the sales price and the purchase price of energy will differ to your disadvantage. Netting is namely supplying back to the electricity network in order to be able to take away the supplied quantity again later without additional costs.
By the way, that netting is not a cash cow. There is a netting limit that is equal to the supply contract with the energy supplier. Is more supplied back? Then a fee is paid for that, which is lower than what you buy it for. At that moment, you are a cheap supplier for the energy companies.