Grid congestion
Expanding or feeding in is no longer possible everywhere: the grid is full and waiting lists grow.
Energy for agricultural businesses
Is your energy portfolio still right?
Solar panels, a battery, a dynamic contract: the offers keep coming. Whether they fit your farm only becomes clear once you know your own energy profile.
COMCAM calculates independently. We do not sell panels or batteries, we show what makes sense and what does not yet.
What is changing around you
Standing still already costs money
Six developments that directly hit the energy bill of agricultural businesses.
Feed-in tariffs are falling
Solar power fed back to the grid will structurally earn less.
Prices keep swinging
The gap between buying well and buying badly can add up quickly at this level of consumption.
Negative prices
On sunny afternoons feeding in can cost money instead of earning it.
Everything turns electric
Heat pumps, cooling and machinery replace gas and diesel. Your energy profile changes with them.
Sustainability as a requirement
Buyers and government increasingly demand demonstrably sustainable operations.
Your energy portfolio in 10 questions
Know your profile and the choices make sense
Energy only becomes manageable when you look at consumption, generation, contracts and risk together. These ten questions make up your energy portfolio.
Component
What we look at
Consumption
When do you use power, and for what?
Generation
How much do you generate yourself, and when?
Feed-in
What do you feed back, and under which conditions?
Peaks
Where do peaks arise, and can they be reduced?
Contract
Does your current contract still fit your profile?
Procurement
What do you fix, what do you buy in phases?
Assets
Do solar panels, a battery or heat buffer make sense?
Grid capacity
Can you grow within your current connection?
Risk
How much price risk fits your business?
Future
What do expansion or electrification mean?
Calculate first, invest later
Not every good solution is a good investment
We do not sell solar panels, batteries or heat buffers. We independently calculate whether such a solution fits your business.
Battery
Technically perfect can still disappoint financially if sizing, control or contract are wrong.
Solar panels
A full roof is nice, but self-consumption, feed-in and grid capacity determine the real value.
Dynamic contract
Offers opportunities, but becomes a risk if your consumption cannot be steered.
Controlling your installations
Only works when there is real flexibility in your processes.
Worked example, fictional figures
Illustrative example: fix everything or buy in phases
An agricultural business expects 500,000 kWh of annual consumption.
Scenario A
€77,500Everything fixed at an unlucky moment, for example EUR 0.155 per kWh
Scenario B
€65,500Spread over four moments, averaging for example EUR 0.131 per kWh
Difference per year
€12,000Not a guarantee. The yearly average Dutch day-ahead price has moved strongly in recent years (source: energy-charts.info), so the purchase moment weighs heavily.
Worked example, fictional figures
Illustrative example: fix the base, steer the flexible part separately
A business consumes 800,000 kWh, of which 200,000 kWh is partly controllable.
Scenario A
€113,600Everything fixed at for example EUR 0.142 per kWh
Scenario B
€99,400600,000 kWh fixed at for example EUR 0.134 and 200,000 kWh steered to cheap hours, averaging EUR 0.095 per kWh
Difference per year
€14,200Only realistic if steering is possible without harming production, animal welfare or storage quality.
Simplified, illustrative examples with indicative values, meant to make choices visible. No promises.
Sound familiar?
The real issue often only shows up in the interval data
Click a situation for our take on it.
We work with
Fixed, click, dynamic or a combination?
A contract type is not a strategy
The question is not fixed or flexible. The question is which part of your consumption needs protection, which part may move with the market and which part you can actively steer.
FixedDynamic
Fixed price
When budget certainty comes first and you have little flexibility.
How we work
First insight. Then scenarios. Only then choose
Most mistakes come from jumping to a solution too quickly. COMCAM guards the right order.
01
Map the energy portfolio
Interval data, generation, feed-in, peaks, contracts, grid capacity and seasonal patterns.
02
Weigh risk and value
Where are price risk, peak load, feed-in risk and investment value?
03
Calculate scenarios
Current contract, fixing, clicking, battery, peak reduction or phased expansion side by side.
04
Test proposals
Critically recalculate assumptions, conditions, guarantees and risk allocation from suppliers.
05
Keep steering
Markets and rules change. We keep monitoring with reports, click moments and new scenarios.
Fix now or wait a little longer?Does my contract still fit my feed-in?Does that battery business case hold up?Can I still expand within my connection?
Have your energy portfolio calculated independently
A contract arranges your supply. A strategy protects your business
Before choosing a battery, extra panels, a dynamic contract or a heavier connection: calculate your total energy portfolio first.
Independent
We do not sell panels, batteries or contracts. We calculate.
From dairy to fruit
We translate energy questions to yard, barn, storage and season.
Data as the basis
Interval data and scenarios, no gut feeling or sales talk.
We do not promise miracles. We substantiate your energy decisions with data, scenarios and independent advice.
The force field
Three forces that pull on every energy decision
We see the same pattern in every sector. A market that keeps moving, what your connection and your own profile allow, and where sustainability has to take you. Each on its own is manageable. The bigger problems arise where they overlap, and that is where most of our work is.
Choose an area in the diagram
All three at once
Plan generation, consumption and connection as one, or decarbonisation stays a plan on paper.
How COMCAM helps
One portfolio, one team: analysis, strategy, trading and risk management across all three forces.
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