Imagine your factory has a digital twin—a perfect virtual copy that tells you exactly how to run your machines to save power. It's like having a smart GPS for your energy use that suggests the best time to run production based on electricity prices and green energy availability. This helps big plants stop wasting energy and avoid expensive carbon penalties.
Energy-intensive industries struggle with high electricity costs, rigid production processes, and increasing CO2 taxes. They lack the digital tools to adapt their production to the availability of cheap, green energy.
An end-to-end digital transformation toolkit including Digital Twins, a multi-agent decision support system, and a Heat Pipe based Heat Exchanger prototype.
If you are a glass manufacturer dealing with high peak energy costs — this project developed a digital twin and decision support system that can help reduce energy costs by over 8% and peak demand by 18%.
If you are a smelter dealing with rigid production schedules and high CO2 taxes — this project developed a flexibility toolkit that targets a flexibility cost below 1.2 €/kWh and helps avert over 110kt of CO2.
If you are a water utility dealing with inefficient energy sourcing — this project developed a Distributed Energy Storage solution and process analysis tools to lower energy demand by over 8%.
The project targets over 8% reduction in energy costs and a total of 45M€ in energy costs and CO2 tax savings across the demo sites.
Yes, the toolkit is being implemented in 5 demo sites across the glass, copper, aluminium, and water industries.
Based on available project data, the project follows an 'X as a service model', suggesting a service-based delivery of the digital lifecycle management.
It uses a Digital Retrofitting process to collect process data directly and employs a Heat Pipe based Heat Exchanger prototype for sustainable energy sourcing.
The project runs from September 2022 to August 2026, with projected impacts on jobs and CO2 by 2030.
The consortium is heavily industry-weighted with 47% industrial partners, including 8 large companies and 7 SMEs. With 32 partners across 9 countries, the project balances academic research (3 universities, 12 research organizations) with practical application, ensuring the digital tools are grounded in the actual needs of the glass, copper, aluminium, and water sectors.
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