Better energy consumption

Agricultural

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.

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Saving energy costs in the agricultural sector

For an agricultural business, energy costs are 5 to 20 percent of total operating costs. With proper energy management, an agricultural business owner can save. There are three ways energy costs for an agricultural business can be affected.

Using less energy
Every kWh you don’t use is the cheapest kWh. This can be achieved by good building insulation and working more energy efficiently, for example by choosing LED lighting.
Generate your own energy
One way to do this is by using solar panels or wind turbines. This makes your agricultural business less vulnerable to energy supplies and price fluctuations. Each kWh that you keep for your own use is the most profitable for your business. After all, you do not have to pay network costs and energy taxes on this.
Buying electricity and gas at favorable times
This is COMCAM’s expertise. By smartly analyzing the energy market, we can purchase energy at advantageous times.

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Earning through sustainable energy generation

An agricultural enterprise can make money by taking advantage of the allowances for imbalance (grid stabilization) or feed-in (via a feed-in contract or power purchase agreement (PPA)), by avoiding procurement (and thus consuming renewable energy generation itself), or by benefiting from the proceeds of Guarantees of Origin (GVOs) from the European Energy Certificate System or from the Sustainable Energy Production and Climate Transition Incentive Scheme (SDE, a balancing scheme for small consumers).

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Combining connections administratively

Agricultural businesses quite often have more than one connection on the same plot or the same WOZ parcel. Combining these different connections administratively pays off. As a farmer, you may add up the consumption and run this total through the brackets once. For the law and for energy tax credits, the combined connections are counted as one. COMCAM can handle the energy tax refund. Combining connections can give an average dairy farmer or arable farmer a benefit of up to €12,000 over a five-year period.

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Whether you are looking for full energy portfolio management or specialist advice on a specific challenge, we start the same way: by understanding your operation. Book a short call and we will identify where COMCAM can make the biggest difference for your organization.

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