Our story
Cooperative. Independent. Innovative.
Hello! We are EnergieID, a cooperative organisation headquartered in Antwerp (Berchem), Belgium. Since our launch in 2010, we have helped more than 70,000 households and small businesses monitor their energy and water consumption. And we are very proud of that!
Our mission is to develop accessible tools that help accelerate the energy transition. Because the need remains as urgent as ever. Where energy monitoring once relied on manually entering a handful of meter readings each month, the arrival of smart meters has made automated and accurate monitoring the new standard. Through our strong focus on integrations with smart meters, solar inverters and external applications, we provide users and organisations with an innovative solution for energy management.
EnergieID is a recognised cooperative company. In addition to our employees, many organisations are members of the cooperative and therefore co-owners. Together, they provide the resources needed to support our activities and democratically shape the future of the organisation, based on the principle of one member, one vote.
Within our organisation, we follow the international cooperative principles of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA). These principles form the foundation of our work and help us build an independent, sustainable and socially relevant organisation for the long term.
This cooperative model helps us attract investors and partners who support our mission and believe in the societal value of a faster energy transition.
In other words: we build impactful solutions for a more sustainable energy system.
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.