Schwarzbräu connects its production processes with flexOn
The case of Schwarzbräu demonstrates how energy-intensive production processes can be smartly connected. With flexOn, the brewery gains transparency over its energy flows, reduces peak loads, and integrates its own photovoltaic system into a holistic energy management. The result: lower energy costs and more efficient production.
Our customer
The Schwarzbräu GmbH is one of Bavaria's most traditional private breweries. Numerous beer specialties are produced at its Zusmarshausen site. Production includes energy-intensive areas such as cooling, ventilation, and wastewater treatment, placing high demands on efficient energy management. To meet these demands, the brewery relies on flexOn as part of Bayernwerk's Energieportal Business, thereby optimizing the use of its own photovoltaic power and energy-intensive systems.
Industry
Brewery & Food
Application areas
Fermentation tanks, barley cooling, other brewing facilities, PV system
The challenges
Avoidance of Load Peaks
In the context of atypical grid usage, limit values must be strictly adhered to in order to save grid fees in the five-figure range.
Complex Asset Management
Managing 23 systems (from generation, such as PV, to consumption via cooling and aeration tanks) requires an intelligent solution that provides transparency and automates control.
Our solution for Schwarzbräu
Introduction of energy monitoring
flexOn transparently captures and visualizes all energy consumption. Analyzing load profiles reveals flexible consumers such as charging stations, ventilation systems, and cooling circuits, highlighting specific optimization potentials.
This enables flexOn to lay the groundwork for further energy improvements – including successful atypical grid usage, photovoltaic integration, increased self-consumption rates, and future market price optimizations.
Optimisation & future-proofing
Satisfied faces: The first goal of atypical grid usage for the winter months of 2025-2026 has been successfully achieved. With the help of flexOn, Schwarzbräu remained significantly below the maximum limit for grid consumption in the corresponding time window (highlighted in orange)—intelligent and automated.
Through AI-based load and weather forecasts, flexOn enables even more smart energy decisions: The integration of a PV system ensures self-supply, making it significantly more independent of volatile electricity prices and providing more favorable conditions. Our detailed simulation explores the opportunities of market-price-optimized electricity procurement to reduce the unit price
Why Schwarzbräu and Bayernwerk rely on flexOn
"Load peaks were a risk for our atypical grid usage. Thanks to the intelligent control of our consumers via the Energieportal Business from Bayernwerk and encentive, we reliably stay below the limits and save massive costs.
With flexOn, we are now integrating our PV system and already testing the potential of market price optimization via simulation."
Benefits at a glance
Transparency across a broad plant park
Central real-time visualisation of relevant consumption and generation data.
Significant cost savings
Five-figure annual savings through load shifting for atypical grid usage.
Future-proof strategy
Enabling optimized PV production and data-driven decisions for market price optimisation.
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