The challenges of decentralized energy generation

What are the challenges of decentralized power generation?

"I think the best way I can explain this is through a personal story. I have a vacation home in France with its own water source. With that, I am responsible for my water myself. All kinds of companies help me to maintain my well and purify the water. The government is completely out of it: I have to take care of this myself.
The same is increasingly true of our energy supply. To maintain your solar panels and heat pump, you have to take action yourself. Gas and electricity used to be collective utilities, based on large scale. That has changed. In case of calamities, as an organization you are responsible for a backup that allows you to go 24 hours ahead, just like a hospital and organizations with critical processes have their own power supply. In the near future, I am convinced that this will also happen to private individuals. Decentralized energy generation thus offers all kinds of market opportunities."

Why is energy sovereignty so important?

"Continuity is also threatened from the outside. If Trump causes US data companies to shut their gates, you and I will have a problem. That's not fiction: Trump has already made sure that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court can no longer access his mail server. I think that's an incredible statement. Five years ago we could not have imagined dot.
You have to prepare more than ever for calamities and the unexpected, also in terms of energy security. I have the impression that we all don't want it yet, but the impression that we all don't want it yet, but the geopolitical reality has fundamentally changed."

Source: Elsevier Weekly

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