You don't have to be an expert to take part
Powerplay is a serious game about the energy system, in which players actively get to know how it works. While playing, you are challenged as Minister of Energy to make choices about the various energy carriers, the necessary infrastructure (electricity cables or gas pipelines) and how users (industry or residents) can make use of them. You experience how your decisions affect multiple parts of the system and how choices reinforce or limit one another.
Powerplay is all about learning by doing. With Powerplay, players build knowledge, strengthen collaboration and develop a broad, fact-based perspective on the energy system of today and tomorrow.
For everyone who is curious
Powerplay is for everyone who is curious about the energy transition, regardless of your background or knowledge. Whether you are a policymaker, work in the energy sector, teach, or simply want to understand more about the world around you, this game is made for you.
The game works excellently in a group setting: during team sessions, training courses, stakeholder meetings or lessons. Playing together, discussing and arriving at insights, that is what Powerplay does best.
And everyone who occasionally reads a news item about the energy system.
Developed by a public network operator
Powerplay is an online and offline serious game developed by, among others, the Dutch public state-owned company Gasunie N.V. and partners who believe it is important to increase understanding of the energy system and the complexity of the energy transition. Powerplay offers a realistic, fact-based and neutral perspective on the challenges of the energy system of today and the future.
As a public network operator, Gasunie feels the responsibility not only to work on a reliable energy infrastructure, but also to make knowledge and insight accessible to everyone. With this knowledge and insight, we engage in conversation about the energy system of today and tomorrow.
Ready to play?
Take on the role of Minister of Energy and discover how difficult, and how fascinating, the energy transition really is. Groenerwaard needs you.