Smart Energy Solutions unit focuses on designing and developing innovative techniques and solutions for automated analysis of consumer profiles, as well as, the development of intelligent and automated techniques for real-time balancing of supply and demand of electricity (power balance optimization), while overcoming critical factors that prevent widespread adoption and implementation of demand response strategies (Demand Response - DR).
The unit aims at providing flexible solutions for small and medium-sized electricity consumers and integrated solutions for electric utilities and service providers in the field of demand management (Aggregators).
The business strategy of the unit includes research and development of advanced technologies, to create a full suite of solutions and products appealing to everyone involved in the electricity market, namely:
• Solutions for consumers: Tools for Creating Detailed Consumption Profiles (Consumer Profiling), Tools for personalized billing reports (Informative Billing) and Innovative Solutions for Building Automation.
• Solutions for Public Agencies and Business/ Industrial Consumers: Multiparametric solutions to optimize energy consumption without compromising business performance targets (Entertprise Performance and Sustainability), Tools for the analysis and real-time monitoring of power consumption data (Billing Analysis, Monitoring and Optimization), along with energy consumption forecasting and reporting tools.
• Solutions for Utilities and Energy Services Companies: Tools for analyzing Consumers' Portfolios and shaping optimized billing strategies, Innovative Solutions for Forecasting and Management of Electricity Demand, Tools for Electricity Trading Optimization and Risk Management and cutting-edge solutions for ensuring semantic interoperability between infrastructure / devices / systems of smart grid, adopting the approach of the Internet of Things (Cloud and Standards-Based Services - "Internet of the Grid").
• Consultancy and services for smart grid technology including energy storage, electric vehicles, holistic techno-economic assessments, market assessments and end to end project management.