We started a long time ago in information technology. Later, very consciously we moved into renewable energy. Some 10 years ago, solar and wind power was already becoming more and more affordable. But back then it was ‘only’ displacing a portion of fossil generation. Fast forward to today, renewable generation (mainly solar and wind) coupled with energy storage and information technology are the keys to our collective energy future.
The outgoing old energy system – largly fossil and nuclear – is highly centralised and makes little use of digital communications. However, building a decarbonised world will be so much more easy using decentralisation and digitisation. We are convinced that the sustainable new energy system will obviously be based on renewable energy generation that is geographically spread out and close to were the energy is needed. But it will also make complete sense to fully utilise the benefits of information technology to optimise energy harvest, energy use as well as energy storage and distribution.