There are more and more chance for growers to respond to novel food market such as emergency index . What options are there and how does it ferment exactly ? Jeroen van Es , Energy Manager at AgroEnergy and Kees Tetteroo , Energy Specialist , explain .

The grocery for hand brake major power offers increase opportunities for greenhouse gardening . If growers initially had to make power available for a whole twelvemonth or a full month , now there is also the selection to register for 24 hour .

And with the introduction of a particular flex pool for emergency power , AgroEnergy goes one step further : growers can now also offer emergency power for a number of time of day . This offers entrepreneur more and more opportunity to give extra income with their CHP capacitance and / or lighting .

The requirement for parking brake baron stems from grid operator TenneT ’s challenge in keep back the electricity grid in unceasing balance . “ Since you’re able to not store electricity , supply and demand must always be in residual , ” say Kees Tetteroo , Energy Specialist at AgroEnergy . “ European regulation prescribe that the main frequency must be retain at 50 Hz . That involve a balance in supply and demand . ”

Kees Tetteroo , Energy Specialist

Last resortWhen supplying and demand are not in balance , TenneT ab initio tries to make adaptation via the imbalance securities industry . If this turns out to be insufficient , regulating and reserve power is call up and , as a very last resort , an collection is made to emergency brake power . “ TenneT only use this capacity in the case of a major imbalance in the electrical energy power grid , it is the very last resort hotel , ” explains Jeroen van Es . He is Energy Manager at AgroEnergy . “ Nevertheless , we do see that the demand for emergency power is growing . This has everything to do with the progression of sustainable electricity . Because it is difficult to predict on the dot how much the sun will shine in a twenty-four hours or how hard the farting will blow exactly , there are more fluctuations in the supplying of electricity . The want for flexible power - such as emergency power - to admit this is therefore increase . And this drift will undoubtedly continue in the come years . ”

Introduction twenty-four hour period auctionsGrowers can run a theatrical role in providing exigency power with their CHPs and lighting . When TenneT calls for emergency business leader , cultivator are asked to regulate their powerfulness up or down and to swap their CHP and / or illumine on or off .

enterpriser receive a deposit fee for realise this capital available . At the time of need , there is an added bonus . “ Initially , growers could only make their capital usable entirely for TenneT on an annual basis . So entrepreneurs no longer had the opportunity to use this electrical exponent for other role . As a resolution , offering emergency power was only potential for a small group of growers , ” say Tetteroo .

For a few class now , growers have been able to make their assets usable on a monthly basis , last year it became possible to control on a weekly and later on a day-to-day footing . “ Clarence Day auction were introduced in September , which intend that growers can also make their asset available for a menses of 24 hours . And they can signal that a mean solar day in advance . This brought emergency power to a larger group of raiser within range , ” sound out Van Es .

Jeroen van Es , Energy Manager

Emergency top executive flexpoolAgroEnergy now offer up plantsman even more flexibleness when it comes to offering emergency exponent . In February of this year , a flex kitty for parking brake power was introduce . Growers can make their assets usable at minute that become them . “ So they do n’t have to be uncommitted 24 hours . As AgroEnergy , we wad the power uncommitted to the growers participate in the pool . We then together with offer this to the food market , ” explains Van Es .

There is great interest in the flex syndicate : sixty growers are now enter in it . This relate a wide variety of fellowship : enceinte , small , with or without BiedOptimaal . “ Every grower can participate , even entrepreneurs who do not purchase their muscularity from AgroEnergy . And horticulturists do not have to coordinate their CHP scheme with the other entrepreneurs in the pool . They determine their vigor strategy , the usage of their CHPs and in which push mart they need to be dynamic , in consultation with their Energy Specialist . ”

When entrepreneurs need to enter in the emergency exponent puddle , the Tenergy steering box is used . “ We then have to make arrangements for TenneT from AgroEnergy . Everything is technically arranged with this . ”

As Energy Manager , Van Es save an centre on which hr cultivator can pop the question emergency mightiness and how much power is usable from the pool in total over a 24 - hr period . “ I can derive that a day in advance on the basis of the amount of electricity that is offered on the APX grocery . Based on the joint exigency power uncommitted from the consortium , I make a command to TenneT via Eneco ’s Trading department . Afterwards I process the resultant . "

The sales agreement of emergency brake power in the Tennet twenty-four hours auction is manage by Eneco ’s Trading department . “ This trading section has extensive knowledge of the various electricity markets and has many eld of experience in purchasing and selling electrical energy . As a event , they know how to keep costs low , they can bid a flock of flexibility and - by monitor well - respond chop-chop to change . ”

Without chargeThe Energy Manager emphasises that growers who take part in the pool are not obliged to offer power ; involvement is completely without debt instrument . “ That is dissimilar for entrepreneurs who have emergency power contracted by TenneT for 24 60 minutes . With the bid from the pool , it is the responsibility of AgroEnergy to ensure we can actually deliver the amount of power that we call . We invariably work with a condom margin . After all , there is always power that can not be delivered circumstantially , for lesson because CHPs go down . "

Low thresholdWith the introduction of the flex pool , AgroEnergy creates special tractableness in offering emergency power and stimulate this choice interesting for even more growers . Tetteroo : “ The barrier to involvement is very low , specially because , as refer , there are no debt instrument to enter within the pool . In this way we extend growers maximal opportunity to make extra money with their usable CHP capacity and ignition . ”

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