Saving and
The sustainability objective has brought about a large number of changing challenges in the energy market. As a result, the need for intelligent and flexible energy systems is growing enormously. In addition to the importance of saving energy, harmonising supply and demand is becoming increasingly relevant.
Energy management in a broad sense
energyNXT is OrangeNXT’s energy-specific IoT platform. The platform provides better insight into an organisation’s energy management system and creates opportunities for smart deployment and harmonisation of energy production resources and equipment that consumes energy. The results are immediate: substantial savings in terms of energy and CO2 emission and in particular lower energy bills. An additional benefit is the increased stability of the network.
The foundation for energy monitoring and optimisation
In the long term energyNXT is the enabler for demand response. End-users will adjust their energy consumption according to price fluctuations or other incentives such as local availability. OrangeNXT is offering eneryNXT as a platform for energy monitoring and for managing energy-specific equipment aimed at optimising energy generation and consumption with the related energy flows.
energyNXT is powered by conNXT, a generic IoT platform that creates a solid foundation for internet-based communication. energyNXT adds drivers for specific equipment as well as specific drivers for the energy market. Both conNXT and energyNXT run entirely in the Microsoft Azure Cloud and have been configured as a Platform-as-a-Service (PAAS). This guarantees their scalability, maintainability, reliability and security.
Who are energyNXT’s target users?
The energy-specific IoT platform is mainly aimed at the following parties:
LARGE-SCALE CONSUMERS
Large-scale consumers will play a pioneering role in the endeavour to achieve CO2 reduction. The pressure to produce demonstrable results in increasing by the day, either from internal sources or from legal and regulatory frameworks. energNXT provides large-scale consumers with a platform that enables them to implement an organisation-wide, sustainable energy management system in an integral manner. Sustainable and at the lowest possible costs!
SMALL-SCALE CONSUMERS
The energyNXT platform is not primarily suitable for application within a single household or a small-scale SME organisation, but rather for groups of small-scale consumers. Groups that unite themselves in order to become more sustainable in a collective manner, while at the same time creating maximum benefits in terms of individual requirements and interests. The platform creates various options for collective investments and sharing the benefits proportionately. This is how the platform achieves economies of scale. It also provides opportunities for aligning local energy demand and supply as well as exchanging energy. A well-known example of this is the energy management at the level of suburbs and communities.
Optimising energy generation for the entire suburb
48 houses in the Veldegge suburb of the town of Heeten in the Dutch region of Overijssel were connected to one, single transformer station. The households in this suburb are extremely energy-conscious. Many homes have solar panels and inhabitants joined forces via the Buurtkracht initiative to create a solar energy collective.
By now all households are equipped with a energyNXT Gateway, a smart cabinet that measures the amount of energy generated and consumed by a household at any moment and that communicates with the generators. The result is that all energy is distributed throughout the suburb in the most efficient manner. Energy is mostly generated during the daytime. The energy is stored in 20 batteries, to be retrieved at the times when consumption is higher, e.g. during the evening
Manage batteries residential complexes
Iwell is a start-up that supplies batteries to residential complexes and owner associations. The young entrepreneurs immediately understood the added value of the OrangeNXT software platform called energyNXT.
energyNXT provides transparent insight into battery consumption and controls the batteries, optionally in combination with other equipment such as solar panels, lighting and so on. As often happens with ambitious start-ups that energetically enter the market, iwell immediately included energtNXT in its proposition. Iwell’s decision did not involve any lengthy contract negotiations, and neither were there any long periods of extensive technical testing. The parties are collaborating by way of ‘learning by doing’.
Avoiding peaks in the electricity grid
How do you maintain a balance in the electricity grid when demand and supply are becoming more and more unpredictable due to the rapid increase of wind and solar energy? This is the challenge for the energy industry in The Netherlands. A consortium that comprises Stedin, ICT Group and others has developed a system that can accommodate peaks in consumption and production without installing any under-ground cables.
The Universal Smart Energy Framework (USEF) is the software model that enables the virtual market for flexible generation and consumption of energy. In our case of Lombok, the framework facilitates uniform information exchange between Stedin on the one hand, and citizens and companies with electric cars on the other. OrangeNXT offers this USEF-implementation as a service in a cloud-environment (USEF-as-a-Service). Stedin is starting the USEFservice in Lombok, initially without any payments. Stedin is also using this testing phase to improve the forecasts.
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