Netcongestie is one of the biggest obstacles for real estate developers, landowners, municipalities and regions to get started with the re-development of existing business parks. Decentralised energy solutions offer opportunities, but these solutions are relatively new and complex. The market of providers is also not yet well organised and difficult to understand. Nevertheless, as a municipality, you need to tackle this in order to prevent stagnation in the development of business parks.
In this session, you will gain insight into the most practical energy solutions at site level and we will show how re-development of existing sites and the realisation of new sites can be made possible.
Marije Groen - Principal consultant at Buck Consultants International - and Mike Sterkenburg - Manager Infra services at Joulz – take you through decentralised energy solutions that ensure that (re)development of business locations gets moving again. You will find answers to the following questions:
· Where do businesses run into obstacles when re-developing existing sites?
· What is needed to move re-development from plans to realisation?
· Which practical decentralised energy solutions are available, and what are their advantages and disadvantages?
· Which sites are already benefiting from this, and how have they done it?
· What role do municipalities, developers, investors and energy providers play?
For 3 scale levels, menus will be presented (individual company level | zone of 2-5 companies | an entire business park):
· Comparison of old versus new situation
· Who benefits & how is it made ‘affordable’
· Organisation: success and failure factors
Of course, there is plenty of room in the programme for questions from and discussion with attendees.
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