First aid for grid congestion: keeping your property moving

A full electricity grid doesn’t have to block your plansImagine this: you’ve finally found a tenant for that property which has been empty for a while. The signatures are in place. And then the grid operator tells you, ‘There’s no connection capacity. Not next month. Not next year.’ In Utrecht, Gelderland and Flevoland, this has become everyday reality.

Find out how it works and where it applies in the latest status update and everything you need to know as a business. We focus on the routes that are still possible. Three practical ways that property owners and managers use to create additional grid headroom. With the figures to back it up.
Route 1: create space behind the meter The grid operator can’t give you a bigger connection. But that isn’t the only thing that matters. What you do within your own setup can make all the difference. By capturing peaks with a battery and spreading charging through smart control, you can suddenly get far more out of the connection capacity you already have. How this works in practice, you can read in shifting capacity.

At an office building on the Pettelaarpark in Den Bosch, the connection was fully utilised, while inside the property there were 2,000 m² waiting to be leased. But a battery of less than €100,000 did bring back headroom in the existing connection. The result? 2,000 m² of extra lettable space, with a payback period of less than one year. We share the full story—including what it delivered for the owner afterwards—at Provada.
Route 2: a different contract with the grid operator Sometimes the solution isn’t in technology, but on paper. If you have two connections on one site, you can combine them into a single aggregated connection and, with insight into contracted capacity, avoid penalties and power interruptions. It sounds administrative, but the impact can be enormous.

At a holiday resort, an investment of around €700,000 was looming. The solution cost €0. How is that possible? We explain it to you at Provada.
Route 3: share capacity with your neighbours Do your neighbours have excess capacity? Then cable pooling is often the quickest route. You share their connection, while both parties keep their own capacity. What most people don’t expect then is how quickly it can be arranged. And how little it costs.

The best example is in Kerkrade. Real estate developer Panattoni was able to start work there on building a business park of 36,000 m² simply thanks to cable pooling with neighbour Lycra, a battery, a solar roof and smart control. In about a week, rather than the years a collective energy hub can take. The full story is in the Panattoni customer story.
How to get started At Censo, we always handle grid congestion issues in three steps: first you gain insight into your actual profile via My Censo, then you analyse the route that fits, and finally you carry out a feasibility study with the figures underneath.
See you at Provada Everyone in real estate has a grid congestion story now. So do we. But we do something about it. At Provada, we show you exactly how, for which situations, and what it delivers. Some outcomes even surprise the owners. Visit us at stand 11.41.