NETWORK YOUR SYSTEMS – INTELLIGENT, OPEN TO TECHNOLOGY AND HIGHLY AUTOMATED!
Energiekoppler GmbH is a provider of the “Flexibilitätswerk” aggregator and service provider for direct and flexibility marketing, in particular for use in exchange trading, in energy communities and districts or for the grid-supporting use of flexibility. The energy couplers network generators, storage systems and consumers of any size in unlimited numbers and make electricity, heat and mobility from decentralized and renewable energy systems reliably available to everyone. Its customers include:
THE FLEXIBILITY PLANT AS A VIRTUAL POWER PLANT 2.0
The flexibility plant is a new form of virtual power plant that enables the economic integration and operation of small energy systems in particular for the first time. It is an automated, standardized and open-technology system solution. This consists of the swarmBOX and swarmHUB components and solves the three main problems of today’s virtual power plants:
- Reduction of project planning effort and initial costs when setting up a virtual power plant for the first time
- Reduction of implementation costs for installation and configuration when integrating individual energy systems
- Increasing operating income through the combination of marketing options
(e.g. self-consumption optimization + direct marketing)
SWARMBOX – THE SELF-LEARNING CONTROL BOX – PHYSICAL OR VIRTUAL
Within the system architecture of the Flexibility Plant, the swarmBOX in physical or virtual version is of central importance. Designed as a self-learning control box, the swarmBOX is able to create forecasts for static electrical energy and heat demand forecasts or to determine a mobility demand forecast for electric vehicles. Based on demand forecasts, the available flexibility (controllability) is predicted, taking into account the system parameters and local optimizations.
SWARMHUB – THE SUPERORDINATE COORDINATOR
The swarmHUB acts as the central control center and operations management instance in the flexibility plant. To this end, it bundles the individual physical and virtual swarmBOXes and can therefore be used in various application areas. The system-architectural use of decentralized intelligence makes it possible to limit the functionalities of the swarmHUB to aggregation, deployment planning and disaggregation, thereby achieving high scalability with low resource utilization.
