Share energy in Bakum: Future project for more sustainable electricity!

Share energy in Bakum: Future project for more sustainable electricity!

Bakum, Deutschland - in Bakum, Lower Saxony, a pilot project for Energy Sharing started, despite the current legal situation in Germany, which does not allow such projects. According to information from NDR take 40 households, Including the Tebbe family with six members, participating in the project. The family does not have its own power generator and obtains their energy from the sharing model. Their annual energy consumption is around 5,000 kWh.

The technical infrastructure is provided by the Austrian company Neoom. An app enables the participants to pursue their energy data and optimize demand within the community. Energy sharing is currently prohibited in Germany; Fictional billing and monetary bonuses are used as a replacement. The project partners are the municipality of Bakum, the local energy cooperative, the EWE energy supplier and Neoom. Due to the ongoing legal uncertainties, the project strives to motivate political support to legalize energy sharing in Germany.

technical and legal challenges

The project in Bakum not only aims to share energy, but also to gain practical experience until the federal government creates the legal basis for real energy sharing. Loud pv-magazine it is not in Germany allowed to join together as an energy community to build your own systems. Valérie Lange from the Bürgerenergie e.V.

The Federal Ministry of Economics is currently conducting talks with associations to make Energy Sharing more attractive, but so far there is no draft for the necessary legal framework. The pilot project in Bakum includes a virtual settlement of the shared amounts of energy in 15-minute blocks. Participants receive a virtual billing and a bonus for each divided kilowatt hour, which is estimated at between 50 and 100 euros per budget. EWE sees this project the opportunity to gain important practical experience and to give impulses for legislation.

The energy cooperative Bakum and Neoom bring experiences from about a hundred active energy communities in Austria into the project. The board of the Bakum energy cooperative, Jan Hoyer, describes the collaboration as a "perfect symbiosis". NEOOM expert Nenning explains the concept of decentralized energy supply as layer, whereby it is about maximizing self-supply, sharing regional electricity and acting with energy suppliers if necessary.