This document provides an overview of a company that helps clients develop microgrids. It discusses trends in decentralized energy generation and rising interest from clients in energy autonomy. The company advises clients on technical, financial, and organizational matters to set up local energy infrastructure. It connects local energy supply and demand using a Microgrid Platform that integrates electricity, heat, gas and other carriers. The company also provides remote monitoring and optimization services for microgrids through a Remote Microgrid Operator. An example project involved designing a microgrid for an island that phases out diesel and meets needs through solar, wind and remote monitoring.

2. COMPANY
PROFILE
November 2015

3. Introduction
What we see in the energy sector
Client needs
Why, how and what we do
Core propositions
What does a microgrid look like?
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Contents

4. Energy trends point towards an increase in decentralised energy generation and
self-sufficiency and a decrease in the costs of decentralised (sustainable) energy
generation, energy storage and IT/OT.
These conditions make it possible and interesting to generate, use and share energy autonomously or as part of a
local collective. This movement is stronger, more vocal and more creative than ever and will not be contained easily
by current interests, laws and legislation or a lack of knowledge about energy.
What we see in the energy sector
Market and Client (wish)
• Increase in decentralised,
sustainable energy generation
(individually and collectively)
• Increasing need to be autonomous
and/or to have stronger local ties
(see next slide)
Technology (Enabler)
• Improvements to generation,
storage and IT/OT technologies
• Decreasing costs of decentralised
generation and storage
technologies, towards grid parity
Economy (Driver)
• Both private and professional
energy costs have increased since
1996 (CBS: 6% CAGR)
• Increasing desire to become
more ‘immune’ to external
economic factors
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5. Financial
A microgrid makes use of
smaller connections, which
results in lower connection
fees and standing charges.
Sustainability
The client wishes to create
his own 100%-sustainable
energy supply. A microgrid
can ensure that locally
generated – sustainable –
energy is also used locally
by the client himself.
Reliability
The client wants even more
reliability than the regular
energy grid can offer.
Particularly in the United
States, this is the main
driving force behind the
development of microgrids.
Emotional
“We want to be able to meet
our own energy needs and
no longer rely on other,
major corporations.”
Client needs
Clients have various reasons to want to become more autonomous:
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6. Why, how and what we do
WHY We believe in the freedom to decide about one’s own
energy supply. The move towards local energy systems offers
opportunities to people, organisations and society as a whole
when it comes to sustainability, economic returns and
autonomy.
HOW We help our clients take advantage of the opportunities
that local energy supplies offer through open, accessible and
objective services.
WHAT We offer technical, financial and organisational advice
pertaining to the energy supply. We help with the realisation of
the local energy supply and manage and optimise it with a
Microgrid Platform.
Why
how
what
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7. Zown employs three core propositions
Proposition Clarification
Zown advises clients on technical, financial and organisational matters to
ensure that the necessary infrastructure can be realised and local (energy)
ambitions can be achieved.
Advice
Microgrid Platform
(MGP)
Remote Microgrid
Operator (RMO)
Zown connects and balances the local energy supply and demand with the help
of a Microgrid Platform. The Microgrid Platform also connects various energy
carriers (electricity, heat, gas, CO2 etcetera) and controls these.
Zown remotely conducts additional services pertaining to operations, (asset)
management and optimisation with the help of a Remote Microgrid Operator.
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8. What does a microgrid look like?
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9. Client sectors
Business parks
Hospitals
Campuses
Remote areas
Independent energy users
Example project
Zown has designed and installed a microgrid on the island
of Pampus. The existing diesel generator will be phased out
and the demand for electricity and heat will be met through
sustainable generation (solar panels and wind).
We can remotely monitor the system in real time.
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