Jaap BurgerThe Dutch energy supplier NextEnergy is offering its customers a free 2 kWh plug-in battery.
The (4-year) monthly lease is €20.83, with guaranteed yearly savings of €250.
The Belgian energy supplier EnergyVision has also started offering this for new solar panel lease installations, but is also making the plug-in battery available to existing customers.
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Similar-sized plug-in batteries are already retailing for less than half of the quoted €1000 in Germany, so it’s easy to offer a guaranteed return if you make such a margin.
A battery to lower your energy bill as part of a supplier bundle was previously limited to ‘whole-home’ packages – including solar PV, heat pumps, batteries and so on – from retailers such as 1komma5, but that was still a very specific niche. Most consumers are electrifying their homes step by step using individual components. It’s great that plug-in batteries now offer that easy entry point, and that suppliers are working closely with their customers
to create behind-the-meter and front-of-meter benefits.
I’m currently analysing the first European V2G bundles: these are currently limited to energy markets (front-of-meter), whereas the benefits for the user could be much greater. There’s a gap here that needs filling!