Siemens and Voltus, an energy resource platform, teamed up to integrate Voltus’s energy monetisation capabilities with Siemens’s building-side intelligent controls and services. This new offering provides a pre-tested comprehensive energy management solution that can help U.S. commercial building operators save energy costs and earn new revenue by limiting peak demand, optimising energy use patterns and participating in utility and market demand response programs.
Siemens’s Peak Demand Limiting (PDL) service, a component of the Siemens Energy Load Optimisation (ELO) portfolio, helps companies reduce high peak demand charges. Integrating this Siemens service with Voltus’s solution allows PDL customers to also enrol in virtual power plant (VPP) programs that pay them for automatically reducing electricity use in response to utility and grid signals.
David LaTour, U.S. Head of Sustainability Portfolio, Siemens Smart Infrastructure USA, said, “Through our partnership with Voltus, our customers can now have a holistic PDL solution that enables both utility demand charge reduction and participation in demand response programs while protecting occupant comfort and indoor conditions. Additionally, this low-cost, automated load management approach can help improve energy management, automate response to grid events, and provide visibility into building performance.”
Marissa Galizia, Senior Director of Partnerships at Voltus, said, “Large loads, electrification and aging infrastructure are putting strain on the grid, and that’s creating an opening for commercial buildings to be part of the solution. Our integration lets buildings deliver more reduction during an event, and do it more reliably, which means more value for customers and the grid for every megawatt enrolled.”
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