The water tower of the electricity grid.
A water tower keeps the water pressure in a neighbourhood constant. repowr does the same for electricity: our grid buffers on the distribution grid catch surplus solar and wind power and return it when the neighbourhood needs it. That keeps the local grid in balance.
What a water tower does for water, we do for electricity.
A water tower pumps water uphill at night, when hardly anyone is using it, and keeps the pressure up during the day, when everyone opens the tap at once. Our grid buffers do exactly the same with electricity on the distribution grid: they absorb power when solar panels and wind turbines produce more than the neighbourhood consumes, and return it when demand peaks. Voltage stays stable, and the grid can take more local solar and wind without reinforcement.
From permit to 24/7 grid support, under our own management.
A grid buffer absorbs power when solar and wind produce more than the surroundings consume, and returns it when demand peaks. repowr takes on the entire journey: site selection, grid connection, permitting, financing, construction and day-to-day control in service of a stable grid.
Develop
We screen plots for grid capacity, zoning and environmental impact, and lead the full permitting process with the municipality, province and grid operator.
Build
Design & build with experienced system suppliers. We size each system to the local grid connection, not to a standard kit, to keep the cost per MWh as low as possible.
Manage
Our systems are controlled day and night to relieve the grid: charging on surplus, delivering at peak demand and stepping in when the grid operator calls for flexibility.
Every neighbourhood its own water tower.
Large storage installations of 100 MW and more hang off Elia's high-voltage grid. repowr deliberately chooses the distribution grid run by Fluvius, ORES and the other DSOs: installations of 5 to 10 MW, spread across the country, close to the neighbourhoods and business parks where solar and wind already cause congestion today. Just as a water tower serves one neighbourhood rather than the whole country, such a buffer relieves the grid exactly where it is congested. It is permitted faster, built faster and strengthens the local grid in the right place.
Local grid reinforcement
A grid buffer on a congested distribution feeder reduces congestion and makes room for more solar and wind nearby.
Modest footprint
Containers on half a hectare, with a green buffer. No tall structures, no traffic after the construction phase.
Less grid reinforcement
A buffer in the right place defers or avoids expensive cable and substation works. That saves the grid operator, and therefore every connected customer, money.
Your plot, a fixed income for thirty years.
Do you own land near a high-voltage substation, an industrial zone or an existing wind turbine? It may be suitable for a grid buffer. Like a water tower, it needs only a small plot and then quietly does its job for thirty years. repowr signs a long-term leasehold (erfpacht) or building right and pays an annual fee, independent of the electricity price.
Annual fee
An annual amount per hectare, for thirty years, agreed together. You carry no operational or financial risk whatsoever.
We carry all costs
Studies, permits, grid connection, construction, insurance and decommissioning at the end of the term are entirely at repowr's expense.
Your land stays yours
The land is not sold. At the end of the term the installation is removed and the plot is returned in its original state.
Clear, fair contracts
We work with a plain-language model agreement. You get the time to review it with your own adviser.
When is a plot interesting?
- 0.5 to 1.5 hectares, flat and accessible from a public road
- Within ±1 km of a high-voltage substation or distribution post
- Industrial zone, agricultural land or residual land along infrastructure
- No homes in the immediate vicinity
Five steps from first conversation to first kilowatt-hour.
Screening
We assess your plot free of charge and without obligation for grid capacity, zoning and distance to grid infrastructure.
Agreement
Option and leasehold agreement. The fee is fixed before we invest a single euro.
Grid connection & permit
Grid connection request with the grid operator, environmental permit and consultation with the municipality and neighbours.
Construction
Foundations, containers, transformer and connection. Limited site disruption, one local contractor.
Management
24/7 monitoring and grid control by repowr. An annual fee for the owner, a more stable grid for the neighbourhood.
A Belgian developer with its own capital in every installation.
repowr was founded in Brussels by entrepreneurs with a background in industrial automation and energy projects. We do not build projects to flip them: repowr remains owner and manager of its installations and co-invests in every system.
Our first wave of three grid buffers in Flanders comes online in 2027. We work with European system suppliers, Belgian banks and public investors, and with the local authorities and landowners without whom no project is possible.
A water tower for electricity in your neighbourhood?
Landowner, local authority or grid operator: talk to us about your plot, municipality or project. We reply within two working days.
Meerstraat 33
1050 Elsene (Brussel), België