Initial situation The evolution of secondary steelmaking processes and its introduction to the steelmaking plants brought about the effective production […]
FlexElectricSteel – : Intraday Energy Management for Electric Steel Plants
- Initial Situation
- Fluctuating energy supply requires new approaches to energy flexibility also in the electric steel production sector
- Determination of energy planning in production must be adapted to enable shorter response times, higher temporal resolution, accuracy and reliability in forecasting electricity demand
- Links to the enterprise resource planning system in the company, among others, as well as adjustments in the automation and information levels are required
- Electricity procurement through participation in continuous intraday trading should be optimized
- Project goals
- Electric steel mills should be enabled to have energy-flexible production in order to maximize the use of renewable energy in the industrial environment
- Innovative approaches
- Development of a new planning platform within the company taking into account production, maintenance, energy flow as well as production planning data
- Use of historical, current, and forecast data with AI-powered tools for continuously adjusted, optimized energy reference planning
- Potential benefits for industry
- Demand-responsive energy planning enables economic optimization of energy procurement
- Avoidance of peak loads, minimization of balancing energy, and future participation in the marketing of energy flexibility
Funding source: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (The joint project is a research project within the scope of the funded Kopernikus project SynErgie – Synchronized and Energy-Adaptive Production Technology for Flexible
Alignment to a Fluctuating Energy Supply)
Duration: 01.11.2019 – 31.10.2022