DEMAND RESPONSE
Elevating Utility Efficiency with Blaze’s Energy Control
Demand Response Architecture
With ever-growing demands on electricity with rapid growth in Urbanization, the Utilities are facing a litany of challenges such as
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Ineffective management of energy resources during demand fluctuations
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High cost of infrastructure for load shedding
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Lack of Demand Response Infrastructure at the Grid Edge
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Limited visibility into renewables and other distributed energy assets
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Limited Prosumer Engagement for achieving efficiencies
The end consumers, on the other hand have their own challenges
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Inability to track device level consumption
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Lack of realtime data for optimizing consumption
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Inability to alert or protect appliances in times of voltage fluctuations
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Lack of insights in faulty loads leading to inefficient energy usage
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Inability to intelligently orchestrate the energy consumption for lowering bills
Demand Response Solution from Blaze combines Energy Monitoring, Resource Orchestration, IoT to achieve Advanced Device Control, Realtime energy consumption, Seamless load shedding and potentially turning consumers into prosumers.
Blaze’s Demand Response solutions enables the Utilities to engage in intelligent conversations with the various loads of their consumers at a granular level and provide “Nudges” to both optimize and normalize the loads on the grid.
An example of the intelligent Energy conversations between the Grid and Blaze’s DR solution can be visualized in the following graphic. The entire conversation is initiated by the Grid informing the AI enabled gateway from Blaze that the tariff will decrease between 2 PM to 6 PM if we can remove 4kW from the home.
The Gateway will then communicate with the various smart devices and appliances such as lights, AC, Water heaters and Dishwashers to schedule their operations in a calibrated manner so as to remove 4kW consumption from the home and offer the benefit of the lowered tariff to the consumer while the Utility gracefully manages the grid without having to resort to Peaking power plants or load-shedding
Leveraging IoT for Effective DR in Homes
Further, Blaze’s DR solution comes with a customizable Dashboards, Mobile Apps and Comprehensive reports to provide unprecedented visibility and control to the users. A few of the sample screenshots are presented below.
Web Dashboards for Monitoring
Energy flow between various sources
Budgeting to keep a track of energy usage
Real-Time Energy visualization
Actions for seamless control and automation
Mobile Applications for Remote Management
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