Someday we all may live like this.
A small Dutch community a short ride from Amsterdam began an imaginative test of the green economy last week. The 25-family Hoogkerk neighborhood interconnected its homes to take advantage of central heating and cooling, and to jointly draw power from a wind farm, rooftop solar panels and a gas turbine.
Twenty-five homes in Hoogkerk are replying on energy from solar panels, wind turbines and a gas turbine.
By making use of smart meters, recycling wasted heat and relying on smart household appliances (dryers don’t go on unless there is a surplus of solar energy, for instance), the homes form a virtual, interconnected power plant. The goal is to use energy more wisely and efficiently, and to generate useful data on whether such extreme forms of distributed energy connected on a local smart grid may work on a large scale.
The test is nearly two years in the making. It is being supported by Dutch energy research center ECN and several companies: consultancy KEMA, software maker Humiq and utility Essent. It also is introducing electric cars to the community.
The project is the first such micro experiment in Europe and could pave the way for other trials. Organizers hope to gain insight into how and when energy is used and whether residents can adapt to such as radical design in exchange for financial incentives.
The system is especially unusual because of the two-way energy traffic among homes. Because of this, its may change the way residential smart grids are conceived and implemented.
And it will put Netherlands on the cutting edge.
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