Businesses and households want to switch to renewable energy faster. That is good news. In order to keep up with the pace, Enexis is concentrating on carrying out the energy transition. We are doing everything in our power to accelerate the transformation of our energy system and expansion of our grids.
The Netherlands must be CO2-neutral in 2050. The government, businesses and societal organisations agreed this in the Dutch Climate Agreement. Therefore, we are already preparing our grids for the transmission of higher volumes of energy from renewable sources, such as solar and wind energy. We are transforming and expanding our grids. But businesses and households are switching faster to renewable energy than we can keep up or could have forseen.
The question is how can we accelerate the process given the fact that we are also being confronted with a shortage of employees. And how can we keep the cost of the transformation of our grids within limits, so that the energy transition remains affordable for everyone. In our strategy, we describe how we plan to deal with these challenges.
Our strategy
Our strategy is based on three pillars and four supporting objectives and forms the basis in this annual report for the various sections.
We are helping to design the energy system of the future and develop and realise a sustainable system that is reliable, affordable, and feasible. To this end, we work together with businesses, governments, and other stakeholders. We will discuss this in detail in the section Together towards a future-proof energy system.
We are working on a safe energy infrastructure that is accessible for everyone while maintaining a high reliability of supply at the lowest possible costs. In order to ease the pressure on the electricity grid, we are focusing on the expansion of our grid, more efficient use of the existing grid, and closer collaboration with partners and customers. We will discuss this in more detail, in the section Working on increasing grid capacity.
We help customers and market parties in a transparent, predictable, and efficient manner. We connect customers on the requested date. If this date is not feasible, we make clear arrangements for an alternative date. We will discuss this in more detail in the section Communicating transparently about what is possible.
The foundation under the pillars
In order to actually implement our strategy successfully, we need many skilled, vigorous, and flexible employees and a strong organisation. Therefore, we ensure that we have skilled employees who work safely and support each other (see section Working safely and strengthening each other). In addition, we also aim to make a sustainable impact as an organisation (see section Making a sustainable impact) and to ensure that we remain financially sound (see section Remaining financially sound). Together, these activities form the foundation under the pillars of our strategy.