What is the Internet of Energy?

The Internet of Energy (IoE) represents a paradigm shift in how we manage and exchange energy

The IoE bridges digital and physical energy realities. It is designed to facilitate open peer-to-peer exchange of energy between users and their assets. This leads to a decentralized, self-regulating network where energy flows seamlessly. The IoE empowers individuals and communities to generate, store, and use renewable energy efficiently and locally, and leveraging interconnectedness towards a sustainable and resilient energy ecosystem. 

Decarbonization

Decentralization

Digitalization

  • "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

    Buckminster Fuller

  • “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”

    Nikola Tesla

  • “The challenges that we’re facing are huge but also the opportunities that we are facing are huge”

    Arash Aazami, Founder, Unify.energy

  • “The issue with energy is it touches basically everything we do.”

    Niki Sie, Founder, Aligned Ventures

  • “If we want to work towards new energy systems, we have to rethink the whole system”

    Daan Stigter, Sustainability Manager, Festival: Into The Great Wide Open

  • "The challenge we face is to get to a sustainable inclusive energy system"

    Anne-Marie Zwanink, Senior Project Manager, Council of Utrecht 

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Breakthrough Innovation

The energy system as we know it has inevitably become subject to a fundamental shift. Anyone can produce, store, convert and manage energy from a multiplicity of resources. With the rise of digital technologies the possibilities grow exponentially. The need for breakthrough innovations instead of incrementally improving the current system becomes increasingly explicit.

We focus on local energy generation, storage, and distribution, and support the development of technologies that improve interconnectedness and energy autonomy. Connected users are no longer just consumers, but active participants in a community-driven energy marketplace.

Our innovations are focused on making the IoE a reality. We work with innovators, scientists, creatives and entrepreneurs to develop scalable, replicable, decentralized energy solutions that resolve grid congestion, increase energy independence and autonomy, and empower prosumers to be future-ready.

Together with you we co-create the solutions that will define the next phase of the energy revolution.

6 Design Principles

Our work is based on the following design principles

100% renewable energy 

Accessible to everyone 

Integrated with the environment 

Local ownership and cooperation 

Privacy & security
by design

Distributed infrastructure

Timeline of the IoE

Our Publications

Learn more about the Internet of Energy, Smart Multi Commodity Grids, digitalization in the energy domain, and our vision for the future of energy through our publications.

Featured
Delta Grid 2050 (2019)
Delta Grid 2050 (2019)

This report explores the vision of a CO2-free energy system in South Holland, emphasizing the interconnectedness of energy and the growing role of digitalization. Since the advent of the internet, humanity's connection has expanded beyond physical bounds to encompass energy systems. The transition from centralized fossil fuel energy to a decentralized, renewable-based "Internet of Energy" offers both challenges and opportunities. By optimizing energy transport, storage, and conversion, the report presents strategies to create a resilient, efficient, and future-ready energy landscape for millions of users in the region.

Smart Multi Commodity Grid – Province Zuid-Holland (Dutch) (2018)
Smart Multi Commodity Grid – Province Zuid-Holland (Dutch) (2018)

One of the primary issues in the worldwide energy transition is to design and create the grids, IT and market structures that form the blood vessels and neural system to serve a sustainable, renewables-based, highly resilient and digitalized energy economy. This economy is best described as an Internet of Energy (IoE). The Dutch province of Zuid-Holland steps up to take a lead.

Digitization in the Energy Landscape (Dutch) (2017)
Digitization in the Energy Landscape (Dutch) (2017)

Digitization is reshaping our lives, marking the end of an exclusively analog world and bringing significant social and economic changes. As developments accelerate, every level of administration now faces the challenge of integrating digitization into their strategies and policies.

MRDH Roadmap Next Economy – Energy (2016)
MRDH Roadmap Next Economy – Energy (2016)

This position paper is written for the MRDH Roadmap Next Economy. It is aimed at inspiring the MRDH to define strong, visionary and inclusive pathways towards an energy system that serves all stakeholders, including shareholders, citizens, and the environment.

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