Community Energy Systems
Generating renewable energy on-site is not only a fundamental part of net zero site management - it’s a competitive advantage in an increasingly electrified world. But filling your site with unmanaged generation assets threatens your operations with grid congestion, damage to infrastructure, and lost utility savings. As part of its Energy as a Service package, C-Energy is developing the Community Energy System, an on-site energy distribution model that connects isolated assets into a coordinated system to minimize supply disruption and maximize cost savings on utility bills.
Why an energy community?
A community energy system connects on-site generation into a coordinated system linking generation assets and consumption points on a site into a smart local grid. Unlike a group of unmanaged assets, which constantly pump maximum power back to the grid out of the control of site managers, an energy community allows site operators to optimize local generation for their business needs.
Utility Bill Savings
A community energy system generates utility bill savings by maximizing self-consumption and limiting dependence on volatile energy markets. Infrastructure and software work together to optimise energy flows for savings by coordinating local generation with local consumption.
Dependable Supply
An energy community allows you to power multiple consumption points on your site dependably, sheltered from wider energy market fluctuations.
Generation in a Community Energy System is designed and managed to prevent wear and damage to local grid infrastructure caused by uncontrolled congestion.
Competitive Advantage
As industry and construction move towards electrification, having the infrastructure to reliably handle increased local electricity flows will be a competitive advantage for sites, particularly those for sites expecting heavy electric vehicle traffic in the future.
Cordeel’s Temse headquarters is a proving site for community energy systems
Cordeel plans to install and connect a hydrogen electrolyser into its on-site energy community to produce hydrogen for Cordeel’s fleet and test hydrogen's value proposition for our clients
To accelerate the transition towards efficient renewable smart grids, C-Energy is actively researching, developing and testing a community energy system installation at Cordeel’s headquarters in Temse, Belgium.
The site is developing a variety of generation and storage assets such as rooftop and floating PV, Hydrogen, battery storage, V2G and pumped hydro. These assets will eventually connect and coordinate this local renewable generation to consumption points on its own site as well as a nearby business park, medium size industrial facilities and residential buildings.
Cordeel’s community energy system is aiming for a 70% self-consumption rate through the active coordination of generation and consumption on-site.
