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Agricultural businesses can save money through better energy consumption, sustainable business practices, and smart energy procurement. Each sector has its own specific challenges and wishes in energy consumption. Within the agricultural sector, questions arise such as: can I better coordinate my energy consumption with delivery? Will my energy supply be stable in the future? What do I save if rates are cleverly locked in? Does it make sense to use gas now? To convert to electricity? What opportunities does sustainability offer? for my company?
COMCAM has the answer to this and all other energy-related questions and can improve your energy situation with Energy Portfolio Management. We also provide tailored advice for your agricultural business.
Operating costs
Saving energy costs in the agricultural sector
For an agricultural company, energy costs are 5 to 20 percent of the total operating costs. With good energy management, an agricultural entrepreneur can save money. There are three ways in which energy costs for an agricultural company can be influenced.
- Consume less energy
Every kWh you don’t use is the cheapest kWh. This can be done through good building envelope insulation and working more energy efficiently, for example by choosing LED lighting. - Generate your own energy
This can be done using solar panels or wind turbines, among other things. This makes your agricultural business less vulnerable to energy supplies and price fluctuations. Every kWh you keep for your own meter yields the most for a company. After all, you do not have to pay network costs and energy tax. - Buy electricity and gas at favorable times
This is COMCAM’s expertise. By intelligently analyzing the energy market, we can purchase energy cheaply.
Options
Earning through sustainable energy generation
An agricultural business can earn money by utilizing imbalance compensation (grid stabilization) or feed-in payments (through a feed-in contract or power purchase agreement (PPA)), by avoiding purchases (and thus consuming self-generated sustainable energy), or by benefiting from the proceeds of Guarantees of Origin (GOs) from the European Energy Certificate System or from the Sustainable Energy Production and Climate Transition Incentive Scheme (SDE, a netting scheme for small consumers).
Service
Combining connections administratively
Agricultural enterprises often have more than one connection on the same plot or the same WOZ parcel. Combining these different connections administratively can be beneficial: as a farmer, you are allowed to aggregate the consumption and run this total through the tariff bands once. For legal and energy tax settlement purposes, the combined connections are treated as one. COMCAM can facilitate the refund of energy tax. Merging connections can yield an average dairy farmer or arable farmer a benefit of up to €12,000 over a five-year period.