With nearly 6,000 internal colleagues and over 1,500 external employees, we work day and night to keep energy flowing safely and reliably through our grids. An increasing share of the energy we deliver – and that our customers feed back into the grid – is renewable.
Enexis is a regional grid operator. Our most important task is to ensure that electricity and gas reach the right places safely and reliably: three million homes and businesses in the provinces of Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, Limburg and Noord-Brabant.
Building on this core responsibility, we work with governments, businesses and households to drive the energy transition in our service area. We believe it is important to work together to build a sustainable energy system. Everyone contributes in their own way – whether by making homes more sustainable, developing wind and solar parks, or investing in electric transport and sustainable industry. Our energy grids are the backbone of this transition, laying the foundations for a CO2-neutral society by 2050.
What is the energy system of the future?
An energy system is a network that connects the production, storage, transmission and consumption of energy. The energy system of the future must do this in a sustainable, reliable, affordable and universally accessible way. The Dutch energy system must be CO2-neutral by 2050 at the latest, at which point it must no longer have a negative impact on the climate. This goal was agreed upon by the government, businesses and civil society organisations in the Dutch Climate Agreement. Achieving this requires a shift to renewable energy sources such as green gas, hydrogen, heat grids, and electricity from the sun and wind, as well as a more flexible coordination of energy supply and demand. Stopping reliance on natural gas and increasing local energy production will also make the Netherlands less dependent on other countries for our energy supply.
A lot of preparation is needed now to ensure that the energy system is CO2-neutral by 2050 and that CO2 emissions in 2030 are 55% lower than in 1990, as stipulated in the Climate Act. Enexis, for example, must decide how and when to upgrade or expand our grids. This is challenging, as we cannot predict precisely what decisions governments, businesses and households will make in the coming years – or how the energy system will evolve. Timely decisions on where and when to build new electricity, gas and heat infrastructure are critical. That is why we want national, regional and local governments to make socially optimal decisions. It is essential that the future system is reliable, affordable and accessible to our customers.
Safety is our top priority
Transmitting electricity and gas and working on our grids comes with inherent risks for both the environment and our employees. That is why safety is at the core of everything we do. To prevent incidents, we closely monitor activity in our grids. We also adhere to strict safety standards and take precautionary measures to minimise risks to our employees and the environment. We do this not only for physical security, but also socially and in the field of cybersecurity.
Our organisation
Enexis Holding N.V. consists of various business units, each with its own area of focus. The organisation is led by the Executive Board. Our shareholders are the provinces and municipalities in our service area.
We focus on the efficient execution of our core tasks, which include:
Connecting customers in our service area to our energy grids as quickly as possible.
Maintaining, upgrading and replacing these grids and resolving outrages.
Expanding the transmission capacity of the grids.
Working with provinces, municipalities, businesses and other stakeholders to make socially responsible energy choices that balance reliability, affordability, feasibility and support. We help shape and design the energy system of the future.
Ensuring that switching energy suppliers and managing energy flows run smoothly for customers and market players.
Our business unit, Enpuls Warmte Infra, focuses on developing, constructing and managing district heating systems. We believe that heat, like hydrogen and green gas, is an essential part of the energy system of the future.
Our role in the energy supply chain
Enexis plays a vital role in the energy supply chain. We develop, build, manage and maintain this network. This includes low-voltage and medium-voltage electricity grids as well as regional gas networks.
Our goal is to keep energy flowing safely and reliably through the grid – day and night, all year round. Most of this energy comes from large power plants, wind farms and solar parks in the Netherlands and abroad. TenneT and Gasunie transmit this energy via their national grids to our regional networks. Some of the electricity also comes from our customers. More and more households and businesses are generating their own electricity from wind, sun, waste and combined heat and power systems, feeding it back into our grid. In fact, more than a million customers in our service area now have solar panels.
We are constantly working to make our energy supply more efficient and sustainable while maximising the capacity of our networks. This includes exploring technical solutions, alternative contract models and the role of energy hubs. We are also looking at how the digitalisation of our grids and data analytics can help. This will allow us to expand grid capacity more efficiently, gain better insight into customer energy consumption and encourage off-peak consumption.
In the visual above, we present Enexis's CO2-eq footprint in 2024. Compared to 2023, emissions in scope 1 and 2 have slightly decreased. However, the CO2-eq emissions in scope 3 have increased. We reduce our impact in scope 1 and 2 through the purchase of GoOs and offsetting through Gold Standard Certificates for our buildings' electricity consumption and our grid and gas leakage losses e.g.. The emissions in scope 3 have increased due to the intensification of our activities on the grid and the growth of the workforce. A more detailed explanation of the reported components and the development of the CO2-eq footprint compared to the previous year can be found in the sustainability statements. The data presented in the visual is equal to the data presented in the sustainability statement, with the exception of the application of offsetting through Gold Standard Certificates.