Peak & load management
econ peak – Intelligent control. Extensive integration. Reducing costs and increasing operational reliability.
Product profile and data sheetYour advantages at a glance
- Extensive support for various load groups and energy storage systems as well as generation systems
- Load shedding control based on predictive calculation
- Intelligent control adapted to your needs
- Optimized self-consumption of self-generated energy
- Protection against overloading of individual phases
- Flexible system that can be expanded at any time
Your advantages at a glance
- Extensive support for various load groups and energy storage systems as well as generation systems
- Load shedding control based on predictive calculation
- Intelligent control adapted to your needs
- Optimized self-consumption of self-generated energy
- Protection against overloading of individual phases
- Flexible system that can be expanded at any time
The amount on the electricity bill is made up of the following three components in particular: the basic price, the energy price and the performance price. The latter is only charged to large customers with an electricity demand of more than 100,000 kilowatt hours. Above this threshold, the Electricity Grid Access Ordinance provides for continuous electricity metering at 15-minute intervals. All of the measurements combined reflect the customer's consumption behavior over time – the load profile. The calculation of the power price is based on the highest average value from the values collected at 15-minute intervals. A load peak can therefore result in high prices, even if the average annual load is lower. The aim of modern load peak management is to control electricity consumption efficiently, thereby avoiding peak loads and reducing demand charges in the long term.
The econ peak is one of the leading solutions in the field of load and charging management. Open interfaces and a constantly growing number of electricity meters supported by wallboxes and charging stations, as well as energy generation and storage systems allow it to be used in almost every conceivable system configuration.
The econ load peak management system grows with the customer's requirements. Individual needs and special customer requirements are no obstacle with econ peak. Software upgrades and additional substations allow the existing system to be continuously expanded with further load groups, additional generation plants or even electricity storage systems. This makes our system perfect for medium-sized companies or corporations, retirement homes or hospitals, hotels, agriculture, charging parks and many more. We can offer a customized solution for industrial and commercial customers of any size and from any sector.
Load management
Are you increasingly using electric vehicles in your company? That's great, but the installation and operation of the charging infrastructure must be well planned from a cost and efficiency perspective. Without charging load management, charging stations can quickly become the new cause of peaks in the load profile. econ peak helps you to keep the resulting costs as low as possible. Connecting the individual charging stations creates a holistic solution that can be optimally integrated into your company's energy management system. In this way, all vehicles to be charged are supplied with the necessary electricity without exceeding the available connected load or driving up the power price on the electricity bill.
Your advantages:
- Realization of a holistic solution for your charging parks
- Optimum integration into your company's internal energy management system
- Transparency through continuous monitoring of the load management of the electric vehicles and optimization of these, including the entire property with consumers and generators
- Sustainable reduction of energy costs with simultaneous increase in security of supply
- Dynamic activation and deactivation of charging stations
- Optimal charging in compliance with grid specifications
- Different charging scenarios: time-controlled, prioritized or electricity price-oriented (high tariff/low tariff)
Commercial kitchens
In commercial kitchens, there is often unrecognized potential for optimizing energy efficiency. In this area, econ peak enables, among other things, switch-off control for kitchen appliances (e.g. steam cookers or instantaneous water heaters) to avoid load peaks.
Industry
Switch-off control for various load groups in industrial applications to avoid load peaks. econ peak enables the control/regulation of any motor-driven machines as long as they support the control and operation is not interrupted, including ventilation systems, heating ovens, compressed air units, pumps and cold accumulators.
Own power generation / power storage
Do you use a PV system to generate electricity? Storage solutions help you to optimize the use of self-generated electricity, absorb power peaks and reduce the load on the grid connection. Yields from the PV system that cannot be used directly are loaded into the storage system and help to bridge night-time demand and absorb load peaks. econ peak helps to increase the yield of the PV system through surplus storage and targeted self-consumption.
Your advantages:
- Sustainable reduction in energy costs
- Sustainable reduction of CO2 -emissions
- Targeted and economical use of self-generated surplus energy
- Optimization of the self-consumption share of self-generated energy
- Relief of the grid connection point
- Predictive grid charging of the storage system
- Reduce load peaks with stored electricity
Combined use cases
econ peak is never designed for just one of the use cases mentioned. Thanks to various software expansion stages, the intelligent system supports any combination of load management. Whether self-generation and kitchens or e-mobility and industrial load groups - numerous combinations are easily possible with econ peak.
Special applications
In addition, complex circuits, time- and tariff-dependent behavior and control via external signals are easy to integrate. With econ peak, automation is possible far beyond the area of pure load management.
Product overview
Maximum controller for peak load reduction and charge management. Compliance with the power limit (target power) through trend calculation and an optimum switching strategy.
econ peak ST16 Maximum Controller with 8 switching channels (article no.: EC250914)
- Expandable to up to 16 switching channels
econ peak BS128 Maximum Controller with 8 switching channels (article no.: EC250916)
- Expandable to up to 128 switching channels
- Switching commands to KNX/EIB
- programmable as a substation
- Parameter switching
econ peak XP128 Maximum Controller with 8 switching channels (article no.: EC250918)
- Expandable to up to 128 switching channels
- Switching commands to KNX/EIB/Dupline
- programmable as a substation
- Parameter switching
- Logical linking of load groups
- 8 main counters
- Kitchen module function
These products are being phased out and will be replaced by new products in the near future. Please contact our sales department for the successor products.
The availability of the previous extension modules cannot be guaranteed.
Extension modules for the Maximum Controller for switching loads and consumers that are further away from the Maximum Controller.
econ switch 40 / 40IP extension module
- 4 outputs (relay contacts)
econ switch 40 with RS485 Modbus RTU interface (article no.: EC250925)
econ switch 40IP with RJ45 TCP/IP network interface (article no.: EC250926)
econ switch 80 / 80IP extension module
- 8 outputs (relay contacts)
econ switch 80 with RS485 Modbus RTU interface (article no.: EC250923)
econ switch 80IP with RJ45 TCP/IP network interface (article no.: EC250924)
econ switch 84 / 84IP extension module
- 8 outputs (relay contacts)
- 4 inputs (digital inputs 24VDC, 10mA)
econ switch 84 with RS485 Modbus RTU interface (article no.: EC250921)
econ switch 84IP with RJ45 TCP/IP network interface (article no.: EC250922)
Relay board for the maximum controller with 8 load stages. The relay board is installed close to the maximum controller.
econ relais 80 relay board with 8 load stages (article no.: EC250945)
- Converts the 24VDC output signals of the maximum controller into potential-free changeover contacts 12A, 230VAC
- Supply voltage 24VDC from the maximum controller
- Manual switching option via DIP switch
- LED display of the switching status
