From the outside, it may look like a large barn, and all the individual components have been seen before. “But the synergy between solar power, the battery, and CHP—the way we coordinate them and make them run efficiently—that’s innovation.”
Through his company, Ursem Modulaire Bouwsystemen, Coos Schouten landed a major contract to deliver 96 homes for migrant workers. But grid congestion nearly threw a wrench in the works: they couldn’t get a connection. So they decided to supply the energy themselves.
His motto seems to be: if you stumble, there’s probably treasure buried there. “If an order suddenly falls through because of grid congestion, that forces you to get super creative. And then you sit down on a Sunday afternoon to figure out how to solve it.” Now, three years later, he supplies the electricity and heat for his housing units for migrant workers himself.
Schouten is particularly proud that he supplies electricity that is 9 percent more efficient than that from the public grid.
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