You want to contribute to climate protection and reduce your energy costs in the long term? That’s possible! By simply using an app. The YOULE app shows how much renewable energy is available on the grid now and in the next 24 hours and helps you to adjust your own energy consumption to the availability of green electricity.
Download YOULE now and contribute to protecting the climate!
The YOULE app relates to facts and data about the German electricity grid. This is why we are currently unable to offer an English version.
The YOULE app provides you with all the information you need to manage your electricity consumption sensibly: The green electricity overview indicates every hour how high the percentage of green electricity in the grid is. The app uses push notifications to give you live recommendations and outlooks on suitable times to switch on your washing machine or charge your e-bike. YOULE also provides you with regular news and tips on how to save energy.
How does using the YOULE app protect the climate?
The new YOULE app uses the proportion of green electricity in the power grid to recommend when to use as much and as little electricity as possible. This is important as our energy system is still inefficient and we lose green electricity almost every day.
If, for example, a lot of green electricity is produced in northern Germany, it cannot always be transported. The existing electricity grid does not have enough capacity, resulting in a grid bottleneck. Wind and solar power plants that are located ahead of this grid bottleneck are then curtailed. The renewable energy that could actually be produced is literally thrown away. Downstream of the grid bottleneck, however, a power plant must be ramped up at the same time in order to feed in more electricity and keep the total amount of electricity in the grid stable.
All consumers pay the costs of such measures by paying the grid fees. And the climate suffers too, because the power plants that are ramped up during grid bottlenecks often burn natural gas.
How exactly does YOULE work?
The idea behind smart electricity consumption isn’t new. Wind power pioneer Karl-Heinz "Kuddel" Hansen, who connected one of Germany's first wind turbines to the grid in 1983, installed a type of electricity traffic light in his kitchen. When the wind was blowing, the traffic light turned green. When there was no wind, it turned red. In this way, the family knew when electricity could be used and when it was time to save electricity. The YOULE app has now translated this principle for the whole of Germany.
If we wash our laundry or charge our batteries when there is a lot of electricity from renewable energies in the grid, a positive domino effect sets in: Solar and wind power plants do not have to be shut down and no gas-fired power plant has to be ramped up. CO2 emissions are reduced. In the long term, grid fees will fall and with them electricity costs. With the YOULE app, we can consume electricity more consciously and integrate active climate protection into our everyday lives.
Download YOULE now and contribute to protecting the climate!
The YOULE app relates to facts and data about the German electricity grid. This is why we are currently unable to offer an English version.