It is not Yet Possible to Find More Space for Companies on the Overcrowded Electricity Grid. The Waiting List has grown in a Few Months from 12,000 to 14,000 companies, Reports Outgoing Climate and Energy Minister Sophie Hermans (VVD).
Hermans Wants to Meet With Grid Operators and the Business Community. “Easy Solutions are no longer available,” She Warns.
The outgoing minister had hoped for the flexibility of companies that can consume less at peak times, so that there is room for others. In this way, the existing grid capacity could be better utilized, as long as the electricity grid has not yet leg expanded and reinforced.
But this approach “is not yet sufficiently off the ground in practice,” the minister must now acknowledge. It Takes Grid Operators A Lot of Effort to Entice Large Consumers to Do this. To really make this Measure a Success, Cooperation is also needed from Companies that are not Themselves affected by the Scarcity on the Electricity Grid.
Last March, there Were Still Twelve Thousand Companies That Wanted to Purchase Electricity But had to wait. In Addition, There Were also More than Eight Thousand People Waiting Who Wanted to Supply Electricity Back, For Example From Large Solar Roofs Or Parks. There was also no room for that on the electricity grid.