This joint project with the participation of Offenburg University is intended to enable medium-sized industry to participate in the energy market of the future.

Industry has the potential to make an important contribution to a climate-neutral energy supply. After all, there are a large number of flexible consumers in companies. These could be used to control electricity consumption so that it occurs primarily at times when it is economically and ecologically profitable. Small and medium-sized enterprises, however, lack the tools to use this potential.

In the FlexGUIde project, concrete tools are now to be developed and tested using digitization, the latest communication technologies and advanced artificial-intelligence methods. These should, for example, enable preferential energy consumption at times of high renewable generation and more efficient energy use, thus reducing the CO2 footprint of industrial companies. In addition, such tools could also further reduce energy costs if, for example, price reductions are used. Electricity traders would benefit, too, as industrial customers would assume part of the trading risk.

Funding Institution

Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK)

Project Start

January 2022

Partners

• ENIT Energy IT Systems
• Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung (IPA)
• Hiller Objektmöbel
• Institute of Sutainable Energy Systems (INES), Hochschule Offenburg
• Institut für verlässliche Embedded Systems und Kommunikationselektronik (IvESK), Hochschule Offenburg
• mech-tron
• Merantix Labs
• MVV Trading
• Rheinspan
• University of Stuttgart