Challenge 1: New energy business models
- What business models and services will energy companies provide in a fundamentally changing energy reality?
- How do we develop business parks to be local energy hubs?
- How can Essent sustainably accelerate the way to a 100% renewable energy system?
Challenge 2: Accelerating local energy exchange
- How can we give users the freedom to access renewable energy when, where and how they need it?
- What can Alliander do to facilitate peer-to-peer exchange among millions of energy users?
- How can we match supply and demand when most of the energy comes from uncontrollable resources like sun and wind?
Challenge 3: Ensure reliability in mission critical energy systems
- How can we ensure 100% reliability of energy access from renewable energy resources on the TU Delft Campus by 2030?
- How do we minimize vulnerability as a result of grid congestion and maximize energy independence?
- What can we do to integrate local energy networks for electricity, molecules and heat and increase local resilience?
Challenge Details
Sub-challenge: How to develop the required digital infrastructure?
Challenge 4: Sustainable and inclusive local energy communities
- What can municipalities do to improve the local energy economy?
- How can we integrate local electric-car sharing to support energy exchange for neighborhoods and communities?
- How can we foster ‘energy inclusivity’ for all citizens and create vibrant energy communities?
Challenge Details
Sub-challenge – The Hague:
Transforming a local electric-car sharing initiative into a charging-square that supports energy exchange in a vibrant neighborhood and community.
Sub-challenge – Utrecht:
What would energy communities in neighborhoods of Northeast Utrecht look like in 2035 when designed to be powered by renewable sources, inclusive, locally owned, and -balanced?
Freeing local energy
How do we unlock the potential of a 100% renewables-based energy system and systematically improve our society’s energy autonomy?
How do we interconnect millions of local energy assets to generate, store, convert, and share energy?
What do we need to develop and build together to give every user the liberty to choose what role(s) to fulfill on the Internet of Energy?
Challenge Details
Synergy hackathon invites participants with bright minds and hearts for physical and digital tech, social sciences, economies, and arts and creativity to contribute to this massive challenge.
