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Due to the combination of an increasingly diverse technology landscape and sustainability awareness, which goes hand in hand with increasingly complex regulation, it is becoming more and more important for energy suppliers to optimize their balancing group management and thus minimize load balancing costs. The multitude of technical and economic dependencies within the balancing group and their interaction with external factors such as energy market and weather data requires a holistic view of the processes involved. Often there are countless alternatives for operational decisions, which cannot all be weighed against each other by the human mind. Moreover, this unmanageable pool of decision alternatives changes highly dynamically – after 15 minutes, for example, there may be another set of countless decision alternatives. A flexible and adaptive – i.e. automatically adjusting to changing framework conditions – virtual modeling of the balancing group and a central data infrastructure are the only way to guarantee that the optimal decision is always made, both economically and ecologically.
Energy contractors take on the decentralized energy system retrofit for a large number of properties by, among other things, renewing the energy supply concept from the ground up; e.g. with heat pumps, PV systems, combined heat and power plants and storage units. This directly requires a renewal of the technical periphery (e.g. sensor technology) as well as a central data infrastructure, which in turn enables a centrally coordinated, optimal control of the individual system components. This is the only way to exploit the full efficiency potential of an energy system modernization: the subsequent operation and the central data management required for this must be directly considered in the energy system modernization. We support the entire process from software-based data acquisition, storage, forecasting, optimization and visualization to active control of the individual system components; and everything is automated and customized.
Real estate trusts are responsible for managing the assets of institutional clients and their real estate portfolios in the best possible way. The focus is on maintaining the value of the portfolio as well as on the due diligence of acquisitions. To meet this responsibility and ensure the quality and value of physical assets, energy-related issues are becoming increasingly important. Outdated energy infrastructure in existing properties can lead to an immense reduction in market value and reduce returns. Neglecting energy assessments during acquisition may lead to a bad investment. Due to increasingly restrictive regulations and rising energy costs, the importance of energy efficiency for the value of a property is steadily increasing. With our services and software products, we support energy assessments, the implementation of efficiency-enhancing measures, and the subsequent assurance of continuously efficient energy system operation.
Manufacturing companies are often faced with high energy costs and the management of a large number of plants and machines. Furthermore, there are usually complex interdependencies between these energy-intensive production lines and machines in terms of production processes, but also energy flows. Neglecting a central energy governance system can lead to plants unnecessarily running at peak load at the same times, although this could be avoided by an intelligent load management (peak load shaving). If the flexibilities in production processes and energy supply are recognized and then processed in a central system, the holistically optimal operating strategy can be determined and, with appropriate hardware interfaces, communicated back to the plants (bidirectional data transfer).
