More than monitoring: Prevent grid congestion and penalties with a smart EMS

Why attend this event?

The limits of the power grid have been reached. For many technical managers, this means a daily battle against grid congestion, threats of fines and the fear of a forced production shutdown. To solve this, many companies install a monitoring system. But monitoring is passive: it only tells you in a dashboard that you were too late and the peak has already been exceeded.

During this Power Topic, we will show you how to make the step from passively watching to actively steering with an Energy Management System (EMS). After all, you don't need a spectator, but an intelligent 'traffic controller' that intervenes autonomously, milliseconds before the limit of your contracted power is reached. We discuss how to set this up electrically safely, without compromising your processes or Power Quality.

What will be covered?

• From Insight to Action: The crucial differences between pure software monitoring and an industrial EMS that controls hardware directly (real-time) via Load Shedding and Peak Shaving.
• Brand-independent connection: A modern facility is a patchwork of brands and systems. How do you safely link solar panels, battery storage (BESS), HVAC and heavy industrial drives to one central control model?
• Failure-free switching (Power Quality): Blind switching by pure software solutions can lead to harmonic contamination or voltage dips. How do you ensure that switching off or dimming assets does not harm the lifetime of your equipment?
• Prioritising on the shop floor: How do you and your team decide which processes are critical and which can be (temporarily) switched back?