Data strategy for the municipal energy system of the future
Emmen and the ORTESE programme as a blueprint for the Netherlands
Data strategy for the municipal energy system of the future
The ORTESE programme* is working on the future energy system for the municipality of Emmen. The wishes, challenges and characteristics of this municipality in Drenthe are comparable to those facing the whole of the Netherlands.
Witteveen+Bos, together with CE Delft, TNO, ENTRANCE, Gradyent and Quintel, will be working on a challenging sub-assignment: developing a robust data strategy to ensure that the digital twin of the future energy system functions in an up-to-date, reliable and secure manner.
Madurodam
The municipality of Emmen has been selected as a model area. All elements of the Dutch energy system are present in a single municipality: a kind of Madurodam of the Dutch energy system. The energy demand comes from industry, agriculture (including greenhouse horticulture) and housing, and part of the Netherlands' high-voltage electricity grid also crosses this western part of Drenthe. The totality of characteristics, wishes and ambitions in Emmen are very similar to those of other municipalities in the Netherlands.
Our assignment focuses on developing a data strategy that makes data available to all parties involved in ORTESE in a secure and responsible manner. Central questions include: what data is needed? What quality should this data have and test? And: how can the provision be contracted efficiently? This data and the system are also used to provide information to the digital twin.
Blueprint for the Netherlands
In order to achieve the best possible results – both in terms of project completion and content quality – we have decided to form a consortium with domain specialists. Together, CE Delft, TNO, ENTRANCE, Gradyent, Quintel and Witteveen+Bos have broad and in-depth knowledge of data strategies, the Dutch energy system and the interaction between the two.
Led by Witteveen+Bos, the consortium aims to develop a data strategy that is adaptive and scalable. This will ensure that the results are valuable not only for ORTESE, but also in a broader context: as a blueprint for other municipalities in the Netherlands with similar challenges and ambitions, or beyond the country's borders.
In developing the data strategy, we focus on the following principles: data sovereignty, interoperability, scalability, data minimisation, cyber security and privacy. With this approach, we ensure that data is made available to all parties involved in a secure and responsible manner.
Legal frameworks
We believe that knowledge of the institutional, technical and regulatory context in the Netherlands is essential for a data strategy that not only functions well at a technical and strategic level, but also complies with all relevant (legal) frameworks. The consortium led by Witteveen+Bos has now started developing the data strategy.
*ORTESE is an initiative of the municipality of Emmen, the province of Drenthe, Enexis and the Ministry of Climate and Green Growth. One of the ambitions within the programme is to realise a number of multi-commodity energy hubs. An important tool in the development of multi-commodity energy hubs is the construction of a digital twin of the entire energy system, including energy hubs.
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