Participants wanted for a research project in the field of renewable energies!
For a 3-year research project, we are looking for farms, public buildings or commercial enterprises to provide us with anonymized energy data.
As a partial result of the research work, you receive, for example, a highly accurate insight into your electricity consumption over the course of the day and year and an individual assessment of the potential for the use of renewable energies in your building.
Help us to create a large and representative test field! We are looking for farms and public buildings or small businesses to provide us with their energy data. We will use the information collected to the second to derive recommendations for action for you, equip some buildings with an energy management system and prepare political decision-making aids (e.g. EEG) for Berlin.
Since there is no such thing as the average farm or the average school, since no agricultural or public enterprise is like any other, we are delighted to have a diverse range of participants. Regardless of whether you already use renewable generators or not, regardless of whether your energy consumption is consistent or fluctuates greatly, because: The typical average 4-person household of Max Mustermann is not applicable here.
However, those who are not average must be considered individually. And there is a need to catch up here, both socially and politically, especially when it comes to considering energy consumption and generation in the course of the energy transition and climate change in rural regions.
What would your participation in the project look like?
A master electrician installs a sensor to measure the current and voltage in your distribution box and sets up an Internet connection to our servers, where the research data is collected anonymously. This data forms the basis for our development work. There are no costs, neither for the sensor nor for the installation.
What is SmartFarm2 about in detail?
(Agricultural) Companies and public buildings have a high demand for electricity on the one hand and a large potential area for their own generation plants (e.g. wind, solar, biomass) on the other. In addition, many of the existing generation plants will be phased out of the EEG in the next few years, meaning that selling the electricity to the public grid is no longer worthwhile. In order to continue to use both existing and potential new plants profitably, a large proportion of the electricity generated must be consumed by the company itself. This leads to an optimization of self-consumption.
The SmartFarm2 joint project aims to identify potential for optimizing self-consumption and implement it in an exemplary manner. The project started on February 1, 2021 and is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.
In addition to Kaufbeurer Q3 ENERGIE, the project partners are the University of Bremen, the Steinbeis Innovation Center for Optimization, Control and Regulation, which is coordinating the project, and nD-enerserve from Hanover.
Support science and research sustainably in your region - and benefit from it yourself!