Smart Microgrid Management with FLOWBOX EMOS
Microgrids: More Than Just Solar Panels – A Path to Energy Savings and Independence
Energy costs are rising – and the future of the power grid is uncertain. Microgrids provide a smart, future-ready solution: compact, intelligent energy systems for businesses, municipalities, and local communities. Instead of relying on large, remote power plants, you can generate your own clean electricity – from solar energy, wind, or other renewable sources. Gain control over your energy supply. Reduce your electricity bills, improve energy resilience during blackouts, and move toward true energy independence. With smart energy management systems, your microgrid can even provide grid flexibility – creating a new revenue stream by supporting the national grid. Microgrids offer affordable, reliable, and sustainable power – and they’re ready today.
What is a Microgrid?
Looking for a way to cut electricity costs in your business? A microgrid is a modern, smart solution for achieving energy independence. It’s a small, localized energy network that can operate independently from the main power grid – helping your company significantly reduce energy expenses.
Think of it as a mini energy system that connects multiple sources of energy (electricity and heat) with your buildings, operations, and energy storage systems.
What Does a Microgrid Typically Include
- Solar power systems – for clean, on-site electricity generation
- Heat pumps – for efficient heating and cooling
- Combined heat and power (CHP) units – producing electricity and heat at the same time
- Battery storage – to store excess energy and use it when needed
- Smart business technologies – with optimized energy consumption
Solar and Battery Storage: The Power of Smart Energy Management for Maximum Savings
For your energy system to truly make sense – everything must work together. Solar panels, battery storage, and company tech on their own aren’t enough. The real benefits come when all parts of your energy ecosystem are connected and managed as one.When energy sources operate in isolation, you lose both efficiency and savings.
That’s where FLOWBOX EMOS comes in. It seamlessly integrates energy production, storage, and consumption into a single smart system. It monitors when you produce electricity, how much you use, what to store, and even the best time to charge electric vehicles.
The result? Lower electricity bills, less reliance on the grid, and a system that responds to your business’s real-time energy needs. With coordinated management, companies can save up to 30% compared to uncoordinated operation.
A smart energy management system is essential for running a microgrid efficiently. It:
- Monitors real-time energy production and consumption
- Uses intelligent algorithms to decide when to store or use energy
- Reduces energy losses
- Prevents waste
- Maximizes the use of all available resources
Intelligent Microgrid Management with FLOWBOX EMOS
Simulations for optimal microgrid configuration and investment decision-making.
Automated dynamic control based on real-time, historical, and forecasted internal and external parameters.
Modular design – begin with a basic microgrid and expand over time as your needs grow.
HW-agnostic – seamlessly integrates with any energy-consuming, producing, or storing technology.
What You Get with a Smart Microgrid
On-Site Electricity Generation with Maximum Efficiency
By producing electricity directly at the point of consumption, you minimize transmission losses and significantly improve overall energy efficiency.
This directly reduces your reliance on the main grid – and lowers your electricity bills as a result.
Energy Independence and Enhanced Operational Security
In the event of a grid outage, the microgrid automatically takes over control and keeps your operations running. Your business gains greater energy independence and the confidence that production or essential services won’t be disrupted by power failures.
Energy Flexibility: Turn Your Technology into a Source of Profit
FLOWBOX EMOS gives you active control over both energy production and consumption – enabling you to participate in energy market services offered by aggregators or electricity traders.
This opens the door to new revenue streams, helps you optimize energy costs, and boosts the return on investment for your solar system or battery storage.
Sustainable Operations and a Smaller Carbon Footprint
By integrating renewable energy sources like solar power, a microgrid helps reduce emissions and supports your commitment to sustainable development. It’s a step toward a greener, more responsible energy future – both environmentally and economically.
Smart Energy Management and Spot Market Trading
FLOWBOX monitors electricity prices on the spot market and automatically adjusts your energy consumption and storage accordingly.
You buy energy when it’s cheapest – helping you further reduce operating costs and increase your system’s efficiency.
Peak Shaving: Save During High-Demand Periods
With battery storage systems, you can limit peak demand from the grid and optimize your reserved capacity. This not only reduces distribution charges but also helps ease the load on the grid – delivering both financial and environmental benefits.
How FLOWBOX EMOS Manages Your Energy in Real Life
FLOWBOX EMOS does much more than just track your energy consumption. It actively manages every element of your microgrid to ensure the entire system runs intelligently, reliably, and efficiently. It responds to changes in real time, alerts you to issues, and automatically adjusts control settings based on current conditions – including electricity prices and the performance of your solar power system.
Smart Battery Storage Management
Battery storage plays a crucial role in any microgrid – helping balance consumption, reduce energy costs, and improve overall energy resilience. But simply connecting a battery isn’t enough. Proper management is the key to unlocking its full potential.
FLOWBOX EMOS ensures your battery responds intelligently to both operational needs and electricity market conditions. It controls charging and discharging with respect to peak demand, reserved capacity, and battery lifespan. It also enables participation in flexibility markets or use as a backup power source for critical systems.
Managing Solar Power Surplus
Feeding excess solar energy back into the grid can often be a loss for businesses – in some cases, you may even have to pay for it. FLOWBOX EMOS helps you detect these surpluses in advance and make smart use of them.Instead of letting valuable energy go to waste, you can store it in batteries, convert it into heat, or share it within an energy community. Plus, with historical data analysis, you gain insights into when it’s most cost-effective to invest in energy storage technologies.
Dynamic Consumption and Storage Management Based on Spot Prices
Electricity prices on the spot market change every 15 minutes. Thanks to FLOWBOX EMOS’s integration with real-time spot price data, your energy consumption and storage can be managed to ensure electricity is used or purchased when it’s cheapest – and reduced when prices are high.
FLOWBOX’s control algorithms take into account production and consumption forecasts, plan the use of battery storage, and control energy technologies in real time. The result? Significant cost savings and improved return on investment for your energy technologies.
Intelligent Charging Management for EVs and Industrial Vehicles
EV chargers and electric forklifts are now standard in modern operations – and they represent a great opportunity to optimize energy consumption.
FLOWBOX EMOS manages charging based on real-time solar production, spot electricity prices, or reserved grid capacity. Through dynamic load management, it monitors overall grid load, adjusts power levels, and enables detailed consumption tracking and billing.When supported by the technology, connected vehicles can even act as temporary energy storage, further increasing system flexibility.
Coordinated Control of Microgrids in a Building-to-Grid Approach
Companies and institutions often operate multiple microgrids across buildings or locations – each with its own consumption, production, or storage. Managing these microgrids as one system opens up new opportunities: sharing available capacity, balancing loads between sites, and maximizing the use of local energy sources.
FLOWBOX EMOS connects individual buildings into an integrated control structure that supports a Building-to-Grid (B2G) approach – where buildings are not just passive consumers, but active participants in the energy system. This includes coordinated planning of consumption and generation, leveraging flexibility potential, and offering energy or capacity to the market. You gain full visibility, better system-wide control, and new ways to manage energy more strategically and efficiently.
Predictive Microgrid Management and Planning
When you know what’s coming, you can manage your energy smarter. FLOWBOX EMOS combines internal operational data with external inputs – such as weather forecasts, spot electricity prices, and solar production estimates. This allows the system to plan ahead: deciding when to store energy, when to use it, and when it’s best to avoid drawing from the grid altogether.It also supports long-term microgrid planning – helping you determine the optimal battery capacity, the number of solar panels you’ll actually benefit from, and when your investment will pay off.
Community Energy Sharing that Works
Sharing energy between buildings or partners makes more sense than sending surplus power to the grid. FLOWBOX EMOS enables community energy systems to function reliably and efficiently. It monitors surplus production, predicts availability, and activates consumption where energy is actually needed. The system ensures fair distribution of shared energy and provides transparency for all participants. As a result, it helps maximize the use of renewable sources and supports greater energy self-sufficiency.
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Smart Microgrid Control in Action
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