# Distro Energy

> Distro Energy provides fully automated peer-to-peer trading of renewable electricity for energy communities, business parks, producers, consumers, and storage providers. Active in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Backed by the Port of Rotterdam.

Distro Energy builds software that facilitates the most profitable connections between energy users, generators, and storage providers. The platform brings full transparency, real-time data, and automation to optimise energy decisions. Distro is designed for the new energy economy and is interoperable with today's power grids.

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.distroenergy.com/): Overview of Distro Energy's peer-to-peer energy trading platform, how it works, and who it is for.
- [Marketplace](https://www.distroenergy.com/marketplace): The Distro Marketplace automatically matches energy supply and demand between participants up to 48 hours ahead, using smart trading agents to ensure the best available price with full transparency.
- [Energy Hubs](https://www.distroenergy.com/energy-hubs): Distro Energy supports business parks and energy communities as a certified Congestion Service Provider (CSP). Energy hubs allow groups of businesses on a shared grid connection to coordinate flexibility, manage congestion, and trade renewable energy collectively — without sharing confidential data.
- [Services](https://www.distroenergy.com/services): Distro Energy's service offering includes energy insights and dashboards, grid congestion management, ESG & CSRD reporting, flexibility and battery optimisation, and co-investment in renewable assets.
- [About](https://www.distroenergy.com/about): Background on Distro Energy, its mission, team, and shareholder structure including the Port of Rotterdam.
- [Load Profile Generator](https://www.distroenergy.com/load-profile-generator): A free web tool for energy advisors and hub managers to build, visualise, and export synthetic energy load profiles — consumption, solar production, and dynamic BESS — at 15-minute resolution. No account required.

## Key concepts

- **Peer-to-peer energy trading**: Direct trading of electricity between producers, consumers, and storage providers within a local community or marketplace, without a traditional energy supplier as intermediary.
- **Energy hub**: A local collaboration between businesses on a shared grid connection that coordinate energy production, consumption, storage, and flexibility to reduce costs and grid congestion.
- **Congestion Service Provider (CSP)**: A certified party that manages flexibility within an energy hub and acts as the primary contact for the grid operator on capacity-related requests. Distro Energy is a certified CSP in the Netherlands.
- **BESS**: Battery Energy Storage System. On-site batteries that can store energy, reduce imbalance, add flexibility to the marketplace, and enable arbitrage on energy markets.
- **Intraday trading**: Energy trading that takes place on the same day as delivery, using real-time market data to optimise positions.
- **EPEX / ETPA**: European energy exchanges where Distro Energy participates to trade electricity on behalf of platform participants.
- **hSLP / SLP**: Synthetic load profiles used to model and forecast energy consumption patterns at 15-minute resolution.
- **CSRD**: Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive — EU regulation requiring large companies to report on sustainability impact, including energy use.
- **ESG**: Environmental, Social, and Governance reporting framework used by businesses to disclose sustainability performance.
- **Grid congestion**: A situation where the electricity grid lacks sufficient capacity to transport all energy flows, leading to constraints on production or consumption.

## Company

- **Founded**: 2021
- **Headquarters**: Rotterdam, Netherlands (Wilhelminakade 909, 3072 AP)
- **Active markets**: Netherlands, United Kingdom
- **Shareholders**: Port of Rotterdam (strategic partner and shareholder)
- **LinkedIn**: https://www.linkedin.com/company/distro-energy/
- **Sitemap**: https://www.distroenergy.com/sitemap.xml