Technologies that support the energy transition, from electric vehicles and heat pumps to photovoltaic panels and batteries, have now been adopted by many Luxembourg residents and businesses alike. This equipment contributes to decentralised energy production and more environmentally-friendly consumption.
Improving intelligent facility management
"Faced with social and environmental challenges, we need to continue to support the adoption of these solutions, while at the same time improving intelligent energy management," comments Vincent Lekens, CEO of electris Luxembourg. The company, part of the Encevo Group through its holding company Teseos, formerly known as diego, is a key supporter of the energy transition. With its recent change of name, it is even more assertive as a partner of producers and a manager of decentralised green electricity flows. In particular, we need to enable residents living in flat blocks to produce electricity, but also to help all the players involved to optimise production and consumption by implementing intelligent management approaches at the service of energy communities," continues the CEO. It's all about sharing the energy produced locally, within a home or a neighbourhood.
Favouring self-consumption
At residential level, it is important to find ways of facilitating the installation of renewable energy production units, such as photovoltaic panels, whether financed by some of the occupants or by third parties such as electris. Similarly, solutions need to be found to enable locally produced energy to be shared.
"As we move towards decarbonisation, many uses are becoming electrified, such as mobility and heating, creating new needs associated with our living spaces. One of the challenges of the transition, along with the decentralisation of production, is to avoid overstretching the networks when consumption increases, particularly in the evening, and to favour consumption or storage when production units are operating at full capacity, when the sun is shining for example," explains Ivan Deschamps, Director at electris Luxembourg. We therefore need to favour self-consumption and more intelligent management of energy flows.
As part of a decarbonisation process, many uses are becoming electrified, such as mobility and heating, creating new needs associated with the places where we live.
Improving energy and equipment management
As the trend towards electrification intensifies, the challenges of sharing and consuming energy are becoming increasingly complex. Solutions need to be found to meet everyone's needs, ensuring that residents are comfortable in terms of heating, while ensuring that their electric vehicles have the required autonomy when they need it.
Over the last few years, we have been helping both private individuals and professionals to deploy electricity-generating facilities, such as photovoltaic panels, charging stations, heat pumps and battery storage," comments Vincent Lekens. The uptake of this equipment has been significant in Luxembourg, thanks in particular to the state subsidies granted. Now we need to move on to the next stage, by implementing intelligent, coordinated management of all this equipment. We are one of the only players in the country able to connect all the production and consumption elements within a single local platform, to facilitate the management of flows and the distribution of energy according to needs."
Facilitating sharing based on needs
electris interconnects energy equipment at the level of a home, a residence, a district or even a municipality, with a view to facilitating the sharing of locally produced energy. With this in mind, the company supports private individuals, professionals and local authorities. Ideally, you should be able to consume the energy at the same time as it is produced or, if that's not possible, you should be able to share it," explains Vincent Lekens. Our platform, managed in Luxembourg, enables available energy to be distributed according to priority uses. For example, to ensure that homes are comfortable at the end of the day and early evening. When the need for heat is lower, in the middle of the night, priority can be given to recharging vehicles to ensure they are sufficiently autonomous in the morning. The algorithms developed by our services in Luxembourg will soon incorporate a layer of artificial intelligence". Depending on the context, the platform can respond intelligently and dynamically to users' needs.
Our platform, managed in Luxembourg, enables available energy to be distributed according to priority uses.
Local, green and accessible energy
This approach considerably improves the accessibility of the energy ecosystems implemented and, above all, optimises the return on investment. "As part of this transition, network usage charges are made more sensitive to peaks in consumption. The challenge is to avoid these peaks when demand is too high, to give priority to self-consumption and even to change usage patterns. So we need to maximise the potential for optimisation," adds Ivan Deschamps.
With the development of intelligent solutions, the energy transition, which is well under way in Luxembourg, will now be able to move up a gear.