Inergy is a CIMNE spin-off focused on digitization in the field of energy management. The company has celebrated its 10th anniversary these days with a party that has served as the setting for the recording of a commemorative video. The event was attended by, among others, the director of Inergy, David Pon; the founding director (and current vicepresident) of CIMNE, Eugenio Oñate; the director of CIMNE-Beegroup, Jordi Cipriano; and the director of Bee Data Analytics, Xavier Cipriano, as well as company experts. They explained, all together, the company's mission, its conception, its values, its contribution to society and its projection in the market.
10th anniversary video – Inergybcn on Vimeo.
SIE Platform for Energy Communities (SIE-Communities)
By the end of November, the Innovation Day Energia 2022, a day of debate and analysis of disruptive and innovative solutions in the energy sector organized by the Efficient Energy Cluster of Catalonia (CEEC), the Energy Network for Society (XRE4S) and Endesa, was held. Before an audience of more than 200 professionals from the sector, Inergy presented what will be its new SIE Platform for Energy Communities (SIE-Communities).
David Pon, director of Inergy, and Xavier Cipriano, director of Bee Data Analytics, were in charge of presenting the technological solution that they are jointly developing and which aims to respond to the needs of creating and managing Energy Communities (CCEE).
The SIE platform for energy communities (SIE-Communities) will allow the simulation, dimensioning and management of any energy community in an efficient and participatory manner. The use of its functionalities is structured in 3 levels: community managers, community participants and public environment.
community management
The design of the platform and its functionalities is designed both to contribute to the promotion and constitution of Energy Communities and to facilitate their management.
In the stage prior to the constitution of the EC, the Platform allows simulating its feasibility, as well as sizing its facilities and batteries. SIE-Communities includes the following among its main functionalities:
- Dimensioning and optimal location of photovoltaic generation facilities.
- Preliminary feasibility simulation of communities according to number of participants and optimal consumption profile to integrate
- Determine the global and individual technical-economic feasibility study.
- Calculation of optimal distribution coefficients among the participants.
- Dimensioning and feasibility study of battery installation.
In the case of already existing Energy Communities, the Platform offers the necessary functionalities for their daily management and energy optimization:
- Membership management and facility inventory
- Planning and economic management of the EC Internal billing and network sales
- Marketer billing validation
- Accounting and balance of self-consumption
- Optimization of self-consumption by calculating optimal hourly distribution coefficients
- Supervision of photovoltaic installations and alarms
- Monitoring of participating consumption and alarms
Empowerment of participants and communication to the public environment
The platform incorporates a web application developed by BEE DATA that helps empower and energize the energy community itself and its members.
The web-app informs users of the self-consumption balance and savings obtained, as well as the evolution of hourly and daily consumption. From the platform, users will also receive energy saving recommendations for the active management of demand or to modify and optimize the hourly consumption curve. On the other hand, the platform incorporates the Citizen's Energy Portal, a website open to all citizens and companies in the area that will be able to openly report on the economic savings and the reduction of GHG emissions obtained with the self-consumption of the EC.
The platform is being developed within the framework of the INSIGA and INCOMUNER innovation projects in which INERGY and BEE DATA participate together with the Navarra entities NASUVINSA and AIN, and the Efficient Energy Cluster of Catalonia (CEEC).
