EnBW Regional Center

At a glance

EnBW Regional Center, Tuttlingen, EnBW

 

Office building

Area: 3,510 m²

Product: meteoviva dsm

Corporate customers can benefit from fluctuating electricity prices. With energy supplier EnBW, meteoviva successfully tested a fully-automated demand side building management system.

Challenge
To control an office building so that energy consumption occurs at times when a lot of renewable and cheaper electricity is being fed into the grid. Avoiding annual load peaks to reduce energy costs and CO2 emissions.

Solution

In 2021, meteoviva piloted a fully automated demand side management system using price forecasts from EnBW’s virtual power plant.

During the test, heating appliances’ electricity meters were linked to a smart electricity tariff that reflected day-ahead market prices. This made it easy to feed electricity prices along with local weather forecasts into the system.

Results

meteoviva’s solution created a digital twin. Model-based simulation determined the optimum control of the system using input data. The system used preheating/precooling technology and thermodynamic flexibility to shift, smooth, or reduce load and consumption. This led to a 20% reduction in peak load and slashed energy costs by 34% in the first year of operation without compromising comfort levels.

3,510

total floor area

 

48 tonnes

carbon emissions savings per year

20 %

fewer peak loads

 

34 %

reduction in energy costs

 

With meteoviva and the EnBW virtual power plant, we‘re seizing the opportunities of digitalization and the energy transition that everyone’s buzzing about.

Michael Schmidt, EnBW virtual power plant

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