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Energy management
in the materials industry

Intelligent energy management for:
Metal
Plastic
Building materials
Textiles
Wood

Power consumption in the materials industry is growing

The materials industry consumes large amounts of energy, particularly in processes such as melting, material processing and material cooling. Particularly in heat-intensive processes, there is a high dependence on increasingly expensive natural gas. More and more companies therefore want to electrify their heat generation, which also makes investments in storage and buffering options for energy more relevant.

Our intelligent energy management helps the materials industry to analyse the opportunities and risks of investments and to reduce energy costs. This allows you to use cost efficiency as an important competitive advantage without affecting your product quality.

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Applications in the
materials industry

Orchestration of heat sources

Our AI-based energy management platform calculates cost-optimized schedules for your heat generation plants and plant networks such as CHP or Power-2-Heat plants. The flexOn energy management platform takes into account both dynamic fuel prices and your own production. It coordinates the various energy flows so that your systems always run according to the most cost-effective schedule.

Automated optimization

In addition to your heat generation, the flexOn energy management platform also optimizes and controls other controllable loads such as shredders, rollers or pumps. The schedules for your systems, that flexOn calculates, can be adapted to various targets at the same time. These include, for example, the generation of renewable energy at the site, atypical grid usage, spot market optimization or increasing efficiency.

Multi-use approach of battery storage

Thanks to the intelligent flexOn energy management platform, you can make full use of the potential of your battery storage “behind the meter.” With the multi-use approach, your storage is used in various cases, such as to optimize self-consumption or atypical grid usage. The overall goal of energy management in the materials industry is always to minimize your energy costs.

Real-time simulation of complex energy systems & storage

Are you considering whether electrifying your heat generation, investing in storage or buffering options is worthwhile for you? The real-time simulation of our energy management for the materials industry supports your decision-making. Using your live data, our platform flexOn creates multi-scenario analyzes, which you can use to make well-founded investment decisions.

Schemadarstellung von der Elektrifizierung von Wärme in der Werkstoffindustrie
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chart in the EMS flexOn showing charging and discharging of battery storage
Schemadarstellung von Echtzeit-Simulation von Elektrifizierung & Speichern

Achieve your goals with intelligent energy management

Flexibilise power
consumption

Adjust your consumption with power generation and spot market prices — fully automatically with flexOn.

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Electrify
heat

You are in the process of electrifying your heat generation? We support you by optimally, fully automatically coordinating your various heat sources.

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Create a
storage strategy

Our intelligent energy management simulates the use of a storage system at your location so that you can make well-founded investment decisions.

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Increase
ROI

Thanks to optimization and automatic control, you can fully utilize the potential of your PV systems and storage systems and increase your cost efficiency.

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