Our story
Cooperative. Social. Innovative.
Hello, we are EnergieID — that's our official name — a socially driven organization headquartered in Antwerp (Berchem), Belgium. Since our start in 2010, we have helped more than 70,000 families and small businesses monitor their energy and water consumption. And we are very proud of that!
Our goal is to develop accessible tools to accelerate the energy transition. Because that is still necessary. Where the emphasis used to be on entering a handful of meter readings each month, fully automated and accurate energy monitoring has become the norm since the introduction of the digital meter. Thanks to our strong focus on data connections with digital meters, inverters, and external apps, we provide our users and customers with a unique and innovative solution.
EnergieID is a recognized cooperative company as well as recognized as a social enterprise. In addition to its own employees, various companies are also members of the cooperative and therefore co-owners. The members of the cooperative bring together the necessary operating resources and decide democratically with equal voting rights on their use.
Within our organization, we follow the international cooperative principles (ICA principles). Our recognition as a social enterprise adds even more stringent financial conditions. This means that we only attract investors who help support our social goal and for whom participating in the profit is not a goal in itself.
In other words, we make profit by creating social impact!
Timeline
Some milestones in our history
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2011
The beginning
Two friends, Diedrik Kuypers and Vincent Dierickx, decide to develop a tool together to monitor energy consumption.
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2011
V1
After more than 1.5 years of development in their free time, the first version of EnergyID goes live on July 1, 2011.
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2014
V2
On September 17, 2014, Diedrik and Vincent, together with Ecopower, Beauvent, and Bond Beter Leefmilieu, establish the cooperative EnergieID. This firmly anchors the platform in a socially responsible enterprise, supported by sustainable and dedicated partners.
We also launch a new version that supports both residential and commercial buildings. The first groups are also being formed as part of Energiejacht, a campaign/game of Bond Beter Leefmilieu.
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2015 - 2020
NobelGrid & WiseGRID
EnergieID becomes a technical partner in NobelGrid and later in WiseGRID, two projects under the European research and innovation program Horizon 2020. In 2018, we launch EnergyID in Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands, and France.
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2021
V3
We release a new version with broad support for automatic data sources such as your digital meter or inverter. A few months later, our own mobile app follows!
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2022
REScoopVPP
EnergieID is a technical partner in REScoopVPP, a project that develops tools to manage homes intelligently (with a COFYbox) and connect them to a community cloud (COFYcloud). By building COFYcloud, EnergieID lays the foundations for our future community tools.
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2023
Premium
We introduce EnergyID Premium, a paid subscription that provides access to the extended version of EnergyID.
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2024
10 years
We celebrate the 10th anniversary of our cooperative!
- 5 employees - Oscar will soon join our team
- 25 cooperators
- 70,000 buildings
- 2,160,000,000 measurements
Our team
In our small but dedicated team, we combine knowledge and expertise to create a truly unique platform.
Members of our cooperative
In addition to our employees, our platform is supported by a diverse group of co-operators.
EnergieID cvso is a member / associated member of:
EnergieID cvso is a recognized cooperative, recognition number 5273.
