Building Energy of the Future

Piotr Wykowski & David Robinson & Tom Bowcutt

Constant changes in the energy landscape make it hard to optimize power consumption. Solutions like Powershift help businesses and individuals reduce energy use and carbon footprint. With direct access to DSR schemas customers can cut consumption and save on bills. Firm Frequency Response allows managing sudden rises of demand to help the National Grid manage fluctuations in forecasted volumes or problems on the transmission or distribution network. Asset Management creates a digital representation of a physical asset bringing all characteristics and allowing them to remotely control assets on the site. With live monitoring of the assets AMS brings together customers and control partners. Powershift solution consists of many tools, systems, and components. Such a big project needs a good architecture. All parts must work together to deliver a reliable product to users. The agile nature of the project is a challenge taken seriously, leading to automation to deliver solutions with minimum downtime.