Intelligent consumption
A building that communicates with the grid reduces your energy costs, and even earns you money: it’s real.
- Consumer Engagement
- Smart Building
- Real solutions
Actively engaging consumers in a maximally efficient network
As a result of the demand for more transparency and increased energy efficiency in power networks, the Smart Grid of the future is designed to actively engage consumers. Consumers are actually turning into prosumers and become themselves elements of an intelligently decentralized network. Bidirectional communication between generation and consumption makes the operation of power transmission and distribution substantially more efficient. Consumers will be able to install their own micro-energy management system and thus help enable costefficient, market-driven power generation and supply.
Smart building solutions help you optimize interactivity with the Smart Grid for maximum energy savings
Siemens’ smart building solutions make it possible for buildings to take advantage of automated demand response programs that immediately shift electricity demand from the least critical functions to where power is most needed.
Furthermore, they automatically store energy for later use when prices are most favorable. They even “know” the best time to use, for their own ends, distributed generation units for power generation from renewable sources like sun or wind and when to refeed energy to the grid, thus making money on energy instead of spending it.
Buildings, so far among the biggest energy consumers, are turning into sources of energy. That is why their active participation in a Smart Grid structure is essential for more energy efficiency, minimized operational costs, and increased productivity of the occupants and building-related processes. Siemens technologies for metering, enhanced forecasting, and the active management of a building’s energy consumption, generation, and storage make possible this active participation in the power supply system.
- Decentralized Energy Management System (DEMS®)
- Smart building technology
- Demand response