A government programme around smart grids is extended with 4000 households and 500 businesses. There are already nine test site for smart grids in the Netherlands and the new proefgemeenten are in Lochem and Nieuwegein, the netherlands.
In the municipality of Zeewolde are 4000 households and 500 businesses connected to a smart grid. Such an energy management system ensures that, taking into account combined information about, for example, consumption, supply, prices, and weather forecasts. The energy in the network is provided by the sun, wind and, when there is no sun or wind, gas turbines. Zeewolde has 22,000 inhabitants and for the project to around one million euros grant.
The government is also two so-called pilot projects in the field of smart electricity networks started. In Sports, go 250 households also make use of the smart energy grid and in Nieuwegein will be eighteen electric taxis of GreenCab is to be charged with locally generated energy.
According to the information brochure of Pilot Smart Grids of the ministry are smart grids ideal for demand and supply to match. Smart energy meters show in real time the energy price so that households cheaper can consume. Among other owners of electric cars were here for their benefit and at the most advantageous time for their car to charge. The system also allows for sustainable energy, such as solar panels, to deliver to the electricity grid.
The pilot must demonstrate the defects still in the system, after which a broader roll out in the future should follow. The experience, products and services, which the Netherlands acquires on the international market as an export product be offered. For the entire project is sixteen million.