Alliander
Innovation – Intelligent Home System – Your own utility
To generate
yourself all the energy you consume. It sounds beautiful and sustainable. Monitoring
is the key to manage your energy-household
Intelligent
Home System; more and more people start to produce there energy; with Wind,
solar, biogas installations, cogeneration and heating / cooling storage
systems. This changes the values in the values in the meter cabinet.
Sometimes
the client generates sufficient energy, sometimes he will use energy supplied
by the central energy grid. Data about the consumption pass through the meter
to the grid provider. The Intelligent Home System will change this information
flow and will provide the customers with detailed information about their
energy consumption, self-generation and purchase.
Modern
Intelligent Home System is like a modem between the meter and the Home computer.
Two small boxes in the meter cabinet send
every 5 minutes information to the computer to show what happens in your energy
household. This is convenient for consumers, but also for companies. Simple
measurement to compare how much energy is in store A, B and C is generated and
consumed. In the future innovative apps will help to transform these data into
useful energy saving tips. For instance use your washing machine when the sun is
shining.
In this way
the generated energy will be used effectively. The Intelligent Home System will
store the measured data 20 years.
Cooperatives
also (future) energy cooperatives will benefit from the Intelligent Home System.
They will group people who would like to generate energy together, for instance
via a common solar meadow.
The
Intelligent Home System shows real time consumption. For the cooperative meter
readings and billing the, customers do not need their grid-operator or their
energy-retailer.
With the
Intelligent Home System, customers can run their own utility. Liander
facilitates these initiatives to support the society towards sustainable energy.