TP 2.09 Energy-Consumption and Load Management
Climate-neutral production is crucial for achieving climate targets. Transparency regarding energy consumption along the entire value chain, supported by sovereign data exchange in the data space, promotes energy efficiency in production. The use case develops data-based solutions to reduce energy consumption and load management, thereby opening up new business models
The FX-Solution in detail
Workstream Energy-Consumption:
- Monitoring of energy consumption & needs-based utilisation of power units
- Modelling energy demand with digital twins
Workstream Load Management:
- Forecast of future energy requirements & energy-optimised production control
- Active load management & energy flexibilization
Load management via detailed energy data acquisition
The development of software for energy data acquisition with soft sensors and controller functions enables a better understanding and more efficient utilisation of energy data in production. Load management based on this to avoid peak loads lowers the power price and thus reduces overall energy costs.
Reduction in energy requirements
In addition, the energy requirements of machines and production facilities can be recorded more precisely, enabling comprehensive optimisation and reduction at factory level. This not only fulfils regulatory requirements for energy saving, but also strengthens the competitiveness of production, specially internationally.
Peak load and energy consumption forecasting
Software applications for monitoring and forecasting energy consumption and peak loads make it possible to provide this data to the grid operator in a sovereign and standardised manner via the data space. This ensures stable and efficient grid management. In addition, new business models can be created by providing industrial energy flexibility for balancing group and grid operators.
