Are you planning to produce energy using a sustainable method? Schiphol encourages the generation and use of sustainable energy! If you are about to install a production installation, it is important that you notify us so that we can keep an overview of all sustainable developments and monitor the safety of our distribution network. We have described the various steps of the registration process below. This information will help you register your production installation.
Download the application form, save it, open the form with Adobe, complete the form and use the submit button at the bottom of the form.
When your registration application arrives, it will be checked to ensure that you have provided all the necessary information. If we have any questions, we will contact you so that we can complete the form together. Once everything is clear, we will process the application. Firstly, we will carry out a network check. This entails investigating whether there is capacity on the electricity distribution network for the electricity produced by your installation to be fed in. We will inform you when this has been finalised and whether your application is to be approved or rejected.
Various permits, such as environmental permits, lifting permits and planning permission, are generally required for production installations. Moreover, safety requirements and activities also have to be taken into account. In order to determine the permits applicable to your installation, we request that you notify the permit counter of your project via vergunningen@schiphol.nl.
After you have notified the permit counter of your project, it will be discussed in the Central Permit Consultation (COV). You will subsequently be informed of the permits you will need, any studies that may be required and the information you will have to provide.
In some cases, subsidies are available for the production of sustainable energy. The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) has set up the Sustainable Energy Production and Climate Transition Incentive Scheme (SDE++) for this purpose. Eligibility for a subsidy under this scheme is subject to a number of conditions. You must, for example, have a transport indication (which we will send you if there is capacity available on the distribution network). The RVO website provides more information about the SDE++ subsidy, how to apply for it and the conditions that have to be met.
A production installation generates electricity. The origin of every unit of sustainably-produced electricity must be registered. The name of the related certificate for sustainable energy carriers, such as solar energy, is the Guarantee of Origin (GvO).
In the Netherlands, Guarantees of Origin for sustainable energy carriers and Certificates of Origin for non-sustainable electricity are issued by VertiCer. A Guarantee of Origin is the only form of proof that energy has been generated by a sustainable method. A compulsory condition for eligibility for an SDE++ subsidy is that you register your solar installation with VertiCer as a production installation.
We will install a gross production meter at your site to enable us to measure how much electricity your production installation produces. Please contact us via utilityservices@schiphol.nl as soon as you have received confirmation of registration from VertiCer. If your site has multiple forms of production installations, we will install a separate gross production meter for each installation. The Schiphol Utilities meter operator is responsible for reading gross production meters. We charge a fixed amount every month for this metering service and for the operation and maintenance of meters. This amount can be found on your invoice under ‘Metering service’.
In conclusion, it is important that you choose an energy supplier and inform this supplier that you have a production installation that is going to feed electricity into the Schiphol Utilities distribution network. The energy supplier will conclude a contract with you for the electricity supplied. If you already have a contract with an energy supplier to purchase electricity, this feed-in may have consequences for your existing contract. It is therefore always important to contact your energy supplier.
If everything has been arranged and your utilities contractor has installed the production installation, it is time to get it up and running. We carry out this process jointly with you. We make a final check of whether the production installation in question meets all the requirements and, if this is the case, theoretically there are no more obstacles to you putting it into operation (or having it put into operation)!
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