{"id":3443,"date":"2017-09-18T12:20:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T12:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.openbusinesscouncil.org\/?p=3443"},"modified":"2022-05-04T21:38:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T21:38:19","slug":"open-utility-announces-trial-contract-essent-largest-energy-company-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/open-utility-announces-trial-contract-essent-largest-energy-company-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Utility Announces Trial Contract with Essent, the largest energy company in the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new, peer\u2013to\u2013peer energy marketplace expands to serve Dutch businesses<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Open Utility Announces Trial Contract with Essent, the largest energy company in the Netherlands<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Open Utility\u00a0is the UK based developer of Piclo\u00ae<\/b>, the energy marketplace that enables homes and businesses to transact on a peer \u2013 to \u2013 peer (P2P) basis with local electricity generators.\u00a0\u00a0Expanding their technology to serve the Dutch, the company has announced a trial contract with Netherlands \u2013 based\u00a0Essent, part of the Innogy Group.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the new partnership in the Netherlands, James Johnston, CEO of Open Utility said: \u201cIn highly competitive energy markets like the Netherlands, transparency and choice are the key to success. We are excited to bring this proposition to the Dutch market together with Essent, through our Piclo P2P Energy Marketplace. This partnership with Essent strengthens our position as a leader in P2P energy with a proven platform that is flexible and can be applied in various global markets.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEssent is a digital energy company, offering our customers smart, sustainable solutions and helping them to use energy more efficiently,\u201d says Stella Brenninkmeijer \u2013 Director Marketing Development at Essent. \u201cTherefore, we have established a new digital P2P brand \u201cEllyn\u201d to give our business customers easy and transparent access to solar and windparks and give solar and windparks the opportunity to prioritize to whom they want to sell their electricity. Ellyn shows businesses that having solar energy in the night is not possible and that to create a decentral electricity market, still many more wind- and solar parks are needed in the Netherlands.\u201d<\/p>\n

Growth of the P2P market also in Italy<\/b><\/p>\n

In June of 2017, Open Utility announced that ERG, a leading Italian renewable electricity generator and supplier, had selected to trial the company\u2019s Piclo Platform to enable Italian businesses to benefit from buying local renewable energy.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the expansion to Italy, James Johnston, CEO of Open Utility said: \u201cPeer-to-peer energy matching and specifically our Piclo Platform, are emerging as an important pillar of the global transition to decentralized energy. So we are very pleased to trial our solution in Italy in partnership with ERG . This agreement is a significant milestone for Open Utility – securing our 2nd utility client and bringing P2P energy to Italy for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Decentralized Energy System<\/b><\/p>\n

The P2P market is expanding rapidly.\u00a0\u00a0Open Utility\u2019s experience includes work with UK \u2013 based Good Energy, an energy company founded in 1999 to transform the UK energy market by providing sustainable solutions to climate change. Together the two companies launched Selectricity in 2016, allowing UK businesses to buy renewable power directly from hundreds of independent generators.<\/p>\n

The proven Piclo technology and contract with Essent lends further impetus to the growing adoption and implementation of P2P energy technology and the demand for a consumer \u2013 friendly, decentralized energy system.<\/p>\n

“Established utilities are facing a range of disruptive threats and a great way for them to address these is to partner with dynamic growth companies,\u201d said Ian Marchant, the former CEO of Scottish and Southern Energy and an investor in Open Utility.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cOne opportunity to respond to this environment is peer to peer trading and therefore I am delighted to see this forward thinking partnership between Essent and Open Utility”.<\/p>\n

Changing the energy market:<\/b><\/p>\n

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  • How the Piclo technology works<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Smart meters record how much energy is put onto and taken off the grid.\u00a0\u00a0Piclo technology uses this data to match customers with the local generation sources in an optimal and fair way and displays the results to customers and partners via the Piclo website.\u00a0\u00a0Open Utility partners handle customer service, provide top-up energy, manage billing and underwrite contracts.<\/p>\n

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    • Advantages to customers<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Consumers can further enhance their \u201cgreen\u201d, environmentally friendly lifestyle by choosing to buy local, renewable electricity.\u00a0\u00a0Businesses can maximize CSR value from their energy bills, and renewable generators can participate in a local energy market.\u00a0\u00a0Leveraging their experience, Open Utility is a leader in the P2P energy sector with the growing adoption of their technology by energy companies in other countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The new, peer\u2013to\u2013peer energy marketplace expands to serve Dutch businesses Open Utility\u00a0is the UK based developer of Piclo\u00ae, the energy marketplace that enables homes and businesses to transact on a peer \u2013 to \u2013 peer (P2P) basis with local electricity generators.\u00a0\u00a0Expanding their technology to serve the Dutch, the company has announced a trial contract with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[25,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nOpen Utility Announces Trial Contract with Essent, the largest energy company in the Netherlands - OpenBusinessCouncil Directory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/open-utility-announces-trial-contract-essent-largest-energy-company-netherlands\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Open Utility Announces Trial Contract with Essent, the largest energy company in the Netherlands\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The new, peer\u2013to\u2013peer energy marketplace expands to serve Dutch businesses Open Utility\u00a0is the UK based developer of Piclo\u00ae, the energy marketplace that enables homes and businesses to transact on a peer \u2013 to \u2013 peer (P2P) basis with local electricity generators.\u00a0\u00a0Expanding their technology to serve the Dutch, the company has announced a trial contract with […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/open-utility-announces-trial-contract-essent-largest-energy-company-netherlands\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"OpenBusinessCouncil Directory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-09-18T12:20:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-04T21:38:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/energy-sector.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"450\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Hernaldo Turrillo\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Hernaldo Turrillo\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/open-utility-announces-trial-contract-essent-largest-energy-company-netherlands\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/open-utility-announces-trial-contract-essent-largest-energy-company-netherlands\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Hernaldo Turrillo\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b9610afd0759dc701187a7f622375c23\"},\"headline\":\"Open Utility Announces Trial Contract with Essent, the largest energy company in the Netherlands\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-09-18T12:20:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-04T21:38:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/open-utility-announces-trial-contract-essent-largest-energy-company-netherlands\/\"},\"wordCount\":699,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"News\",\"Open News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/open-utility-announces-trial-contract-essent-largest-energy-company-netherlands\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/open-utility-announces-trial-contract-essent-largest-energy-company-netherlands\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/open-utility-announces-trial-contract-essent-largest-energy-company-netherlands\/\",\"name\":\"Open Utility Announces Trial Contract with Essent, the largest energy company in the Netherlands - 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