Step 1: Calculating your montly payment
You can apply for energy through www.samenom.nl/aanmelden. Enter where you live and whether you want to apply for gas, electricity or both.
In The Netherlands energy is paid monthly. The next step is to determine how much energy we think you will consume within the coming year. This will be devided by twelve to estimate your montly costs.
You are now presented with the option to either enter your annual consumption (if you have exact knowledge of how much energy is spend in your house each year) or to have us calculate this based on the information you will give us. If you want to enter your annual consumption, go to step 1.2. If you want us to calculate your usage, go to step 1.3.
Step 1.2: Enter your yearly usage
In this step you can enter all the data about your annual energy consumption and production, in case you have solar panels. Electricity is measured in kWh and gas is measured in m3.
Regarding electricity: Some people have two meter readings for electricity, meter 1 and meter 2. Meter 1 measures the amount of energy you consume during nighttime hours and meter 2 measures the amount you consume during daytime hours. By selecting this option you will receive a contract with two different prices: for energy you consume during the day and at night. This could help you save some money if most of your usage is either during the day or at night.
However, if you have two meter readings but you don’t need this distinction, fill in that you don’t have a double meter. In this case you will need to add up the yearly usage of both meters.
Attention! Do not enter the numbers you see on your meters! These represent the total amount of usage since the meters where placed in your home. Only enter the usage if you have knowledge of what is yearly used in your home. If you do not know these numbers, go to step 1.3, in other cases move to step 1.4.
1.3 Calculate your yearly usage
If you have just moved to a new home or if you haven’t got any information about past usage, you are problably not familiar with your yearly usage. Our tool will help determine the amount we will expect you to use within the next year.
Step 2: Determining your type of contract
Based on the information provided in the previous steps we have determined the price you will pay. The tool will show you the prices per month and per year for the differenty types of contracts.
At om | nieuwe energie you have the option to choose between 2 different contracts: 1 year fixed and Flex.
With a fixed contract the energy price per kWh stays the same for as long as the contract is running. During this period you are unable to freely switch to another supplier, unless you pay a fine.
When you apply for a Flex contract, the price automatically changes every month based on the prices on the energy market. In contrast to a fixed contract you are not bound to a set period and you are free to change supplier or switch from Flex to a fixed price whenever you want.
Step 3: Entering your personal information
In the next steps you will enter al your personal information that is needed for us to finish your application for energy. Here you can also enter the preferred date on which you would like supply to start and whether your application has to do with moving or just switching between two suppliers.
We hope that this page has helped you to easily register for 100% renewable energy. If you have any suggestions or feedback regarding this guide, we would appreciate it greatly if you would share this with us, so that we can improve the information for our English speaking customers. You can give feedback by mailing this to info@samenom.nl.