FLEXIBLE · MARKET-COUPLED · PROCESS-SAFE
CONTROLLING PRODUCTION BY ENERGY PRICE
Rethinking production
Energy-led production means: your manufacturing processes are not rigidly timed, but dynamically coupled to energy costs. The system decides — within defined production limits — when which load runs. And when it waits.
This sounds like a restriction. It is the opposite: companies that take this step reduce their energy procurement costs significantly, without jeopardising delivery dates or disrupting processes.
WATT INDUSTRIES develops and implements the system architecture for this form of plant operation — from sensors to market connectivity.
The principle
Conventional production optimises throughput. Energy-led production optimises throughput and energy costs simultaneously. This requires three things: real load flexibility, reliable price information, and a system that connects both.
WATT INDUSTRIES delivers all three components. Integration takes place into your existing infrastructure — without PLC reprogramming, without production downtime.
Step 1
Which loads in your plant are non-time-critical? Typical candidates: furnaces, compressed air systems, refrigeration compressors, pumps, charging stations, HVAC, drying systems. WATT INDUSTRIES conducts this analysis based on your actual load profile data.
Step 2
The system automatically retrieves EPEX SPOT price information daily. A load schedule is generated that respects your production limits whilst actively exploiting low-cost time windows — Day-Ahead, Intraday or balancing energy.
Step 3
The system only intervenes where you have defined room to manoeuvre. Protection limits — minimum capacities, temperature hold limits, set-up times — are implemented directly in the control logic. Fully automatic, with audit trail.
Load flexibility
The first step is an honest analysis: which loads in your plant are time-non-critical? Which can be shifted within minutes, which only within hours?
WATT INDUSTRIES conducts this analysis based on your actual historical load profile data — and evaluates the savings potential concretely.
Automation with limits
Energy-led production only works when your process remains protected. WATT INDUSTRIES implements protection limits directly in the control logic: minimum capacities, temperature hold limits, set-up times, priority classes.
Fully automatic, with audit trail and feedback to your monitoring dashboard.