#1 Smart storage for smarter consumption
Contact
Patrick Geiger
AM & High Voltage/Medium Voltage Operations Engineer
CIMO
+41 (0) 24 470 35 57
Context
Large energy consumers face several major challenges, including:
- Significant penalties related to monthly net power peaks (peak shaving),
- A growing desire to optimize self-consumption over the long term,
- The need to reduce adjustment energy consumption, which is often costly and inefficient,
- The need for a power reserve to enable full islanding of the industrial site in the event of grid failure.
Energy storage appears to be a promising solution to address these issues. However, its implementation is still difficult to justify without a clear understanding of the technical and economic impacts.
Challenge
Develop a modelling and simulation solution that enables a large energy consumer to:
- Assess the relevance of a storage system for their specific needs,
- Properly size the storage (capacity, power, volume),
- Simulate different charging/discharging strategies to optimize simultaneously:
- Reduction of consumption peaks (peak shaving),
- Maximization of self-consumption,
- Reduction in the use of adjustment energy,
- Increase of potential islanding duration.
Objective
Develop or propose a solution capable of answering the following questions:
- What is the optimal battery size for my site?
- What is the total cost of such a system?
- What are the expected benefits (economic, energy-related, environmental)?
- Is it possible to model the energy behavior of a site or district using electrical data?
Currently lacking:
- Simulation tools tailored to large electricity consumers,
- An integrated vision covering all four objectives (peak shaving, self-consumption, adjustment energy, islanding),
- Clear benchmarks to assess the profitability of a storage system in a given environment.
Partner
CIMO Compagnie industrielle de Monthey SA is a Swiss company founded in 1997. With over 450 employees and 80 specialized professions, CIMO is active in various fields such as: energy production and distribution, waste treatment, technical maintenance, engineering, automation, hygiene and safety, environmental services, laboratory, and occupational medicine.
Using advanced technologies, CIMO primarily serves the Monthey industrial site, but also provides services to third-party clients.
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