CUBE EfficiencyUnit: energy management system for battery storage and your site
One system controls grid supply, battery storage, PV system, charging infrastructure and heating. In real time and fully automatically.
The CUBE EfficiencyUnit is the energy management system (EMS) from CUBE CONCEPTS. It continuously analyses electricity market prices, weather data and consumption forecasts and uses them to control all energy sources and consumers at a site. In the battery storage system, it coordinates peak shaving, atypical grid usage under §19 StromNEV and trading on the balancing energy and spot markets, without intervening in PLCs, control systems or production control.
How the CUBE EfficiencyUnit works
The calculations run in the cloud, while an on-site controller handles control. Both are permanently connected.
Internal consumption data and external data such as current electricity market prices and weather data, including forecasts, flow continuously into a cloud environment. There they are calculated and analysed live. You can see all key factors of your energy supply at any time and adjust parameters individually.
The controller at your company is connected to the cloud server. It processes the data it receives and controls the connected systems in real time: battery storage, charging infrastructure for electric vehicles, heating system and other electricity consumers.
Basic principle: The CUBE EfficiencyUnit always uses the cheapest energy source and dynamically adjusts grid supply to the current supply situation. No manual intervention is needed.
What the CUBE EfficiencyUnit controls
As the central control unit, it integrates all key components of a site's energy infrastructure.
Grid supply optimised in real time according to current electricity market prices, with a direct connection to the German electricity market
Peak shaving, load shifting, balancing energy and spot market from a single control system
Self-consumption maximised based on weather data, consumption and forecasts
Charging currents for the company EV fleet optimised
Energy sources for all heating systems controlled automatically
Live monitoring, data analysis and ongoing profitability analysis with a reporting function
The CUBE EfficiencyUnit in battery storage
Balancing energy, §19 compliance and arbitrage compete for the same storage capacity every day. The CUBE EfficiencyUnit prioritises automatically, without manual intervention.
The CUBE EfficiencyUnit coordinates both fully automatically. §19 compliance always takes priority over trading on the electricity market.
It knows all of the grid operator's peak-load time windows and automatically blocks charging during them. Every charging process is logged with a time stamp, and the annual verification for the grid operator can be exported directly.
It reweights FCR, aFRR, mFRR and arbitrage every day, based on market prices, peak-load time windows and your load forecast. If a revenue channel drops out, it automatically optimises for the remaining ones.
It calculates the cycle threshold dynamically and only runs a cycle if the price spread exceeds the pro-rata costs of degradation and operation.
It keeps grid supply below the capacity booked each year, without new hardware and without a new contract.
It monitors the operating data continuously. The BMS monitors cells and modules, while the CUBE EfficiencyUnit, as the EMS, coordinates all sources and consumers on site.
With BESS Contracting the CUBE EfficiencyUnit handles trading, monitoring and operation. With a BESS purchase it can be booked as an O&M service on request, and all revenues remain with you.
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Submit load profile →How the CUBE EfficiencyUnit lowers your energy costs
- Holistic control of all energy sources and consumers with live matching of all cost factors
- Real-time optimisation of grid supply according to current electricity market prices
- Efficient control of grid supply through a direct connection to the German electricity market
- Automated peak shaving
- Intelligent control of battery storage with a live connection to the primary and secondary balancing energy markets
- Maximising PV self-consumption based on weather data, consumption and forecasts
- Optimising charging currents to supply the company EV fleet
- Automatic control of the energy sources for all heating systems
- Live monitoring and data analysis
- Ongoing profitability analysis with a reporting function
CUBE EfficiencyUnit: answers for decision-makers
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