Volt Villages: Share Solar With Neighbours

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Volt Villages: Share Solar Energy With Your Neighbours

Volt Villages is a developed web platform and app designed to enable neighbours to share locally generated solar energy through the existing electricity grid.

The project was independently conceived and developed with the original intention of launching a local pilot in the IJmond region of the Netherlands, initially focusing on Beverwijk and IJmuiden.

The platform is designed to connect households with solar panels that have surplus energy with nearby households that need electricity, using smart-meter data and automated matching. It brings together the digital experience, matching process, accounting and payment functionality within one platform.

What has been developed

The project includes:

• A complete Volt Villages web platform
• A developed application and user experience
• User registration and account functionality
• Solar producer and consumer journeys
• Smart-meter/P1 data integration concept
• Automated local energy matching
• Accounting and transaction functionality
• User dashboards
• Pricing and platform-fee structure
• Partner/installer functionality
• Administrative/backend functionality
• Volt Villages branding and digital assets
• The voltvillages.com domain
• Source code maintained in a private GitHub repository

The platform was designed around a simple principle: use existing infrastructure to make locally generated renewable energy more valuable to the people producing it and more accessible to the people living nearby.

Current status

Volt Villages has been developed as a pre-commercial project and has not yet established commercial revenue or a customer base.

Volt Villages has been developed as a pre-commercial project, with the original intention of launching a local pilot in the IJmond region of the Netherlands.

Having developed the platform from concept to working product, the founder is now offering Volt Villages as a complete acquisition opportunity for a buyer who wants to take the project forward, expand it or adapt it to their own requirements.

Opportunity for the buyer

The project does not have to remain limited to the original IJmond concept.

A buyer could:

• Continue Volt Villages as originally envisioned
• Launch the platform in another region or country
• Develop it further for the energy-community market
• Adapt the platform for an existing energy, sustainability or smart-city business
• Repurpose the technology and user experience for another business model

The buyer is acquiring an existing developed platform and application rather than starting from a blank page.

Acquisition

The complete project is available for acquisition, including the domain, platform, app, source code, branding, concept, and associated digital assets.

The founder will provide reasonable handover assistance to help the buyer understand and take over the project.

Asking price: €29,500

Serious offers will be considered.