Load management

Intelligently manage energy and costs

Load management plays a crucial role in efficiently monitoring energy consumption in your company. Targeted load management reduces energy costs, saves resources and guarantees the stability of the mains supply. Our intelligent load management solutions efficiently monitor energy consumption whilst optimizing costs.

Our video shows how efficient load management makes your company more future-proof whilst helping reduce energy costs and contributing to a sustainable future.

Load management in simple terms
Comparison

No load management vs. intelligent load management

Without load management, your company cannot exploit the vast potential for considerably reducing your ongoing energy costs. As energy requirements vary during the course of the day, increased energy costs are expected during peak load times. This financial load also has an impact on your company’s ability to compete. Furthermore, insufficient load monitoring can jeopardize network stability and lead to overload.

Intelligent load management optimizes energy consumption and reduces costs in the long run. You also benefit from lower tariffs and reduce consumption, particularly during peak load times. Intelligent load management solutions also help stabilize the mains by compensating for load peaks and avoiding bottlenecks. This effect is increasingly important in the light of greater integration of renewable energies and their fluctuating availability.

Intelligent monitoring of energy demand does not just financially make sense, it is also extremely important in ensuring a reliable power supply.

What is load management and how does it work?

Load management is the monitoring of energy where the aim is to match demand with available capacity. This takes place via the use of suitable load management solutions, which optimize upcoming loads and intelligently monitor consumption.

Our systems continuously record and analyze energy consumption to identify potential load peaks and to take suitable mitigating measures. By delaying or even switching off loads which are not essential, you can reduce energy consumption without it having an impact on your production processes or being an inconvenience.

Use of automated systems and selecting the right load management method means energy consumption can be controlled in line with your requirements and usage profiles whilst taking the available resources into account.

Different types of load management

Static load management

In static load management, a fixed power is made available and equally distributed across various consumption points where required. Typical applications for this include charging stations for e-mobility that are supplied by an on-site mains connection.

Advantages:

  • Simple implementation
  • Low costs
  • No real-time monitoring required

Disadvantages:

  • Lack of flexibility in the event of unexpected changes
  • Limited adaptability

Suitable for:

  • Private households
  • Small companies with stable energy demand

Applications:

  • Residential properties
  • Offices
  • Smaller production facilities

Holistic load management

Holistic load management provides comprehensive optimization of energy consumption, particularly with energy-intensive production processes that have pronounced power peaks. It allows for intelligent monitoring of the available capacity whilst also taking decentralized power supply options into account with energy planning.

Advantages:

  • Full optimization of energy consumption
  • Combination of different load management strategies
  • Maximum flexibility and efficiency

Disadvantages:

  • Complex implementation
  • High investment costs

Suitable for:

  • Large companies
  • Industrial facilities with complex energy profiles

Applications:

  • Large-scale industries
  • Complex infrastructures for energy network operators

Schedule-based load management

Schedule-based load management supplements dynamic load management and provides another option for managing charging output. Distribution of charging output is not managed based on vehicle-specific charging output and the energy demand of vehicles, but based on pre-defined schedules instead. These schedules set out when and which vehicles are supplied with a specified charging output. For example, vehicles that come to the charging station at a later point can be supplied with a higher power. As a result, the charging times of electric vehicles can be managed in accordance with requirements and ensures that certain vehicles are available at defined times. Schedule-based load management therefore enables optimized use of available charging output and efficient organization of charging processes.

Advantages:

  • Full optimization of energy consumption
  • Combination of different load management strategies
  • Maximum flexibility and efficiency

Disadvantages:

  • Complex implementation
  • High investment costs

Suitable for:

  • Large companies
  • Industrial facilities with complex energy profiles

Applications:

  • Large-scale industries
  • Complex infrastructures for energy network operators

Dynamic load management

Dynamic load management is an innovative solution for ensuring optimal usage of a limited mains connection capacity. It flexibly adapts the available power to electricity consumption, particularly during different times of the day. This adaptation means additional charging output can be provided for electric vehicles as soon as energy demand in the building falls. This means electric vehicles can charge up faster. If the total energy is insufficient to cover the needs of all consumers of electricity then the charging output per vehicle is reduced to avoid the network from being overloaded or to avoid load peaks.

Advantages:

  • Real-time monitoring
  • Flexible adaptation to changing loads
  • Optimal usage of available resources

Disadvantages:

  • Higher implementation costs
  • Continuous monitoring required

Suitable for:

  • Apartment blocks and residential buildings
  • Large companies
  • Industrial facilities with fluctuating energy demand

Applications:

  • Residential buildings
  • Factories
  • Hospitals
  • Shopping centers
  • Data centers

Comprehensive load management solutions from Janitza

Intelligent, automated load management solutions from Janitza enable you to control energy consumption and therefore costs in line with your individual requirements whilst taking different usage profiles and available resources into account.

Implementation of our load management solutions means you optimize energy consumption within the company, reduce your consumption costs in the long term and also ensure the stability of the mains whilst simultaneously reducing your ecological footprint.

Janitza - your specialists in intelligent load management

You can find more information, practical examples and intelligent solutions for comprehensive load management in our free white paper. Amongst other things, discover:

  • how you can successfully and actively shape the energy revolution,
  • why a PV system on its own is not a solution,
  • how you can best use photovoltaics and battery storage systems,
  • the costs that can be saved with our load management solutions, and
  • how you can operate your charging column infrastructure optimally in terms of consumption.

We would be delighted to advise you and find the ideal strategy in your case. Talk to us.

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