How is this different from a physical neighbourhood battery?

A physical neighbourhood battery is one installation in the area, with its own location and connection. In the virtual version they are separate home batteries, each behind its own meter.

Is this possible in my neighbourhood?

That depends on the local grid and on parties willing to take part, such as an energy cooperative, a municipality or the grid operator. Leave your interest and we can look at what is possible.

Do I need a MyGrid ModuleTwo?

For MyGrid storage you use our home battery. Whether it fits a neighbourhood project depends on that specific project's requirements, which are set by the parties involved.

Does it work without solar panels?

Storage without solar panels is conceivable, but whether it makes sense differs per situation. In Hilversum the project's own conditions apply; see the project information for those.

Do I stay in control, and what happens with my data?

The battery stays yours and you can keep following your own usage. Which data a project uses, and how, is set out by that project before you take part.

What do I get out of it?

You can help reduce how much demand lands on the local grid at the same time. What taking part means for you depends on the agreements within the neighbourhood project, and we discuss those upfront.

How do I start something in my area?

Send us a message through the form above, as a resident or on behalf of a neighbourhood initiative, cooperative or municipality. We are glad to think along about a first exploration.

MYGRID COMMUNITY

Together we take the peak out of your neighbourhood.

With a virtual neighbourhood battery, home batteries work together to help lower local electricity peaks. By spreading demand and storage across the day, a neighbourhood can help ease pressure where grid congestion occurs.

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Neighbourhood projects in Hilversum and Amsterdam-Sporenburg.

How peak reduction works

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Demand without coordinationDemand with coordination

Without coordination, households draw a lot of electricity at the same time around dinner. Demand rises sharply in a short window.

Your own battery. More possible together.

Every battery stays at the home it belongs to. “Virtual” means separate batteries are coordinated: it is not one large battery in the street, and there is no cable running between neighbours.

MyGrid ModuleTwo home battery installed beside a home

Store energy at home

Your battery sits at your house and stores electricity for your own household. You stay the owner and the user.

Help lower peaks together

By coordinating when batteries charge and discharge, homes can help flatten the sharpest moments together.

Tuned to your neighbourhood

What is possible depends on the local grid and the project on site. Every area therefore starts with its own exploration.

How a virtual neighbourhood battery works

01
Measure what happens
First it becomes clear how and when the neighbourhood uses electricity. In projects, that insight usually comes from participants' meter data.
02
Coordinate for the area
Next, the useful moments to store or release energy are identified, given local usage and the local grid.
03
Lower the peak together
When several homes shift their moment, less demand lands at once. That is what a virtual neighbourhood battery aims for.

Coordination and agreements differ per neighbourhood project. Together we look at what fits your area.

TIMING

Storing at the right moment

The cheapest electricity price does not always coincide with the most room on the local grid.

When many cars charge at once

With a dynamic tariff, many charging points can start at the same cheap moment. That can create a new peak. By spreading charging out and letting home batteries step in during that peak, the neighbourhood can draw less power from the grid at the same time.

The batteries recharge at moments when there is room locally.

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local grid load

quiet momentcheap tariff momentlater in the evening

course of the day

The demand does not disappear: part of it shifts to quieter moments in the neighbourhood.

Keeping room for the solar peak

A battery that is already full early in the morning can no longer absorb the largest solar peak later in the day. By keeping charging room free for the moment when the neighbourhood feeds a lot of power back, more solar electricity can be stored locally.

The right moment to charge depends on the expected generation and the local grid load.

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stored energy

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reserved charging room

Reserved charging room can absorb solar electricity from the neighbourhood later in the day.

What is possible depends on the local grid situation and on the available battery power and storage capacity.

What does taking part mean for you?

Your battery remains part of your own home. Working together starts with clear agreements about what is possible in your neighbourhood.

The battery remains yours

Your home battery stays with your own household. A neighbourhood project does not change who owns it.

You keep the insight

You continue to follow your own storage and use. Any project data used is explained beforehand for each area.

Agreements are project-specific

How joining and leaving works differs per neighbourhood project. You receive the conditions before making a choice.

Interest is not registration

The form only tells us where there is interest. It is not an order, contract or confirmed project enrolment.

It starts in the neighbourhood.

See how residents in Hilversum and Amsterdam-Sporenburg are working towards smarter use of the local electricity grid.

Hilversum, Raadhuiskwartier

Flex met de wijk

Energy cooperative HilverZon, the municipality of Hilversum and Alliander are exploring how resident insight and participation can lower peaks in the Raadhuiskwartier.

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Amsterdam-Sporenburg

Flexibility in the Eastern Docklands

Sporenburg lies in the Eastern Docklands, where the City of Amsterdam and Liander work with Resourcefully and OpenRemote to ease pressure on the local grid.

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GRID OPERATORS

Local cooperation differs by region.

A neighbourhood project is coordinated with the parties involved locally. Alliander is involved in the Hilversum project. Stedin operates the grid in other Dutch regions; involvement is explored for each area.

MyGrid DataLock™

Your energy. Your data. Your control.

A virtual neighbourhood battery enables hundreds of home batteries to charge and discharge together. Together, they shift the load on the local grid, making their control part of critical energy infrastructure. Security is therefore crucial.

This is how thousands of small batteries can contribute to a resilient and secure electricity grid, rather than weaken it.

Secured from the chip

ModuleTwo only starts with software approved by MyGrid.

Secure connection

Secure communication between your battery and the MyGrid platform.

Your data stays in the EU

Your MyGrid energy data stays in a European cloud environment that we manage ourselves.

LEARN

Understand neighbourhood energy

Learn how physical and virtual neighbourhood batteries differ, and how smart storage can help with grid congestion.

What is a neighbourhood battery?What can storage do about grid congestion?

A neighbourhood battery in your area?

Tell us where you live and who wants to take part locally. Together we explore whether a neighbourhood project is technically and practically feasible. This is not yet a guarantee that a project will start.

An expression of interest is not a final registration yet.

Neighbours talking on a Dutch street with rooftop solar panels

Where do you live?

Province of UtrechtTell us your town or neighbourhood and where local interest is emerging.GelderlandWe gather interest from residents and local initiatives neighbourhood by neighbourhood.Province of Limburg (Belgium)You can register your interest; availability is always explored neighbourhood by neighbourhood.HilversumView the existing neighbourhood project and tell us you are interested.Amsterdam-SporenburgAn Eastern Docklands neighbourhood where smarter local grid use is being explored.My town is not listedTell us where you live. This helps us see where local interest is emerging.

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Frequently asked questions

That the batteries physically stay at the homes and only their behaviour is coordinated. Together they act a little like one larger buffer, without anything shared being built. This set-up is also called a VPP: a virtual power plant, a network of devices that are steered together.

A home battery as part of the whole.

Want to know how a MyGrid home battery works on its own first? Read about it on the ModuleTwo page.

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