Helping Integrators in offering Energy Solutions for a Sustainable Future
Integration of home batteries and large energy solutions
Integrated PV systems, fuel cells, windmills, and a centralized battery to power households and businesses.
Read moreIndustrial microgrid
Overcoming grid congestion and ensuring constant power with solar panels, batteries, and control systems.
Read moreResidential microgrid
Simple yet advanced systems for households using solar panels, batteries, and EV charging stations.
Read moreNavigating the Energy Transition
with Confidence
The energy transition offers exciting opportunities, but also challenges. A fully integrated energy system is key to optimizing your energy use. Arkimedes provides guidance on batteries and other custom solutions to ensure your energy system works efficiently.
A self-supporting energy system involves the successful integration of several different technologies. This integration part is critical for the safety and the (optimal) functioning of the complete system and is often difficult to implement.
Arkimedes and its integration partners can provide unique customized batteries to help you with the realization, service and maintenance of the fully integrated energy system of your wishes.
Why System Integration
Matters
An integrated energy system comprises many parts of the current energy infrastructure, but then on a small scale involving generation, transportation, and storage of electricity.
Below we will outline three possible so called microgrids, two large-scale versions (one of a neighborhood and one of an industrial area) and a small-scale microgrid for a household.
There could be many different parties and technologies, so every situation will be unique. Arkimedes together with its integratiom partners can tackle all the problems that will be involved.
In this example, on the generating side, there will be PV systems, fuel cells, and windmills owned by (energy) companies and households. There is also a connection to the main electricity grid for backup. On the consuming side, there are companies, households and charging stations.
A municipality battery is present to store/provide electricity to overcome the time mismatches between generation and consumption. A micro-grid control system controls how the direction of the electricity flows. The system will keep track of all individual electricity generations and consumptions to validate the individual contributions of the parties.
In this example, the micro-grid will consist of an industrial area in which the roofs are covered by solar panels and the companies require connections. Congestion problems in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe make it nearly impossible for companies to get a new heavy electricity connection.
Arkimedes can provide batteries with an output voltage of 400V, enabling companies to immediately obtain a 400V connection while charging the battery with electricity from the grid (230V) or (their) solar panels. The charging station will use the surplus of electricity from the solar panels and, if needed, from the grid. All transmissions of this microgrid will be controlled by a central micro-grid control system (EMS).
The main electric infrastructure of a household is very straightforward. However, the implementation of a PV-system, a battery and high power devices like a heat pump or a personal electric vehicle charging station makes it an advanced network that requires an energy management system (EMS) in order to regulate the power distributions effectively and to prevent shutdowns.
The EMS controls the direction of the electricity and whether the battery will be charged or discharged depending on multiple parameters. The EMS will also unlock the ability to make a profit by stabilizing the grid and trading energy with the grid.
Each microgrid relies on an advanced Energy Management System (EMS) that regulates electricity flows, prevents shutdowns, and unlocks the potential for energy trading.
