Green Building Talks: Traffic jam on the Electricity Grid

With the growing number of sustainable energy projects and the electrification of processes, our electricity grid is coming under pressure. We use more and more energy at peak times, for example for charging electric cars. This affects scaling up the industry or building new houses, because new connections are not always possible. Network operators are busy scaling up capacity, but how can we make the network future-proof? In the latter Green Building Talks: Traffic jam on the electricity grid various experts, stakeholders and professionals discuss how we should deal with grid congestion and what solutions are conceivable.

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About the speakers

From ABN AMRO Leontien de Waal as Sector Banker Construction responsible for following the most important trends and developments in the built environment and the subsectors. This makes her a sounding board for entrepreneurs, investors and other stakeholders at the intersection of sustainability and circular innovation.

Jan Kadijk is Manager Knowledge & Innovation at the Dutch Green Building Council. In this position, he develops various knowledge sessions and training courses together with teams. He previously worked on knowledge transfer on spatial quality, regional cooperation and smart cities at Nirov (Netherlands Institute for Spatial Planning and Housing), the New Map of the Netherlands, Platform31 and Smartsensors.me. In addition to his work at DGBC, Kadijk is active as a board member/programmer at the TOPdelft city platform.

Huibert Baud is Director of Customer & Design and Manager Strategy & Innovation at Dutch regional grid operator Liander. Liander is part of network company Alliander. At the Strategy and Innovation department, Huibert assesses the impact of long-term trends on the networks and the functioning of Liander.