We continue the extensive presentation of the Energy Evolution 2015 nominations with the New Comer of the year category. Only one of the projects below will be awarded during the Gala on December 3. However, each of the companies and all the people involved in these projects deserve our respect and the widest promotion possible.
ABMEE & Servelect Cluj
Nearly Zero Energy Hotels – neZEH
Through a European funded project, ABMEE, as partner of the project, and Servelect as energy auditor and ESCO company, have initiated the conversion of 3 hotels in Romania in nearly zero energy consumption buildings, nZEB. At the level of the tourism sector, it is a representative project with replicability.
Through financial support offered by EBRD and the European project “Nearly Zero Energy Hotels”, coordinated in Romania by ABMEE, in the spring of 2015 Servelect Cluj conducted 3 complex energy audits, at the level of building envelopment, installations and consumption processes in 3 hotels (Grand Hotel Balvanyos, Hotel Cubix and Hotel Kolping), whose owners had shown interest for turning the buildings in nZEB, compared to average levels of primary consumption of over 430 kWh/sqm/year.
The result was to prepare solution packages for advanced renovation of buildings, in order to reduce the necessary energy consumption and to install local renewable energy sources, so as to reach the target imposed of nZEB consumption of 104/kWh/sqm/year of primary energy and 35% contribution from renewable sources. Solutions proposed for these 3 hotels, although they involve significant investments, are partly already under implementation: sealing and insulating facades, lighting retrofit – Hotel Cubix; installation of micro-cogeneration unit – Grand Hotel Balvanyos; facade insulation, condensing boilers and solar collectors – Hotel Kolping. ABMEE and Servelect through the neZEH project continue to provide support for hotel owners to access funding and implement solution packages.
Eaton Corporation
UPS Eaton 93PS (8-40kW)
The UPS with the lowest Total Cost of Ownership and maximum availability in its power range – www.eaton.eu/TCO
The Eaton 93PS is a uniquely intelligent UPS that is both virtualization and cloud ready. Another key technology feature is Eaton’s Energy Saver System (ESS). Already delivering safe and reliable power in major data center hubs around the world, ESS enables the UPS to deliver up to 99 per cent efficiency by suspending power modules when power conditioning is not required.
The system is, however, ready to switch to double-conversion mode in under two milliseconds if required. ESS also enhances the reliability of the system by reducing stress on the electrical components, extending the life of the UPS and helping IT professionals reduce the Total Cost of Ownership.
To guarantee high efficiency, even when UPS load levels are low, the new 93PS uses Eaton’s Variable Module Management System (VMMS) which optimizes the load levels of power modules in a single UPS, or in parallel UPS systems, by suspending extra UPS capacity.
The 93PS has also been designed to be highly scalable. For more information, please visit www.eaton.eu/93PS
Eva Energy
Electricity supplier for residential customers
Eva Energy, electricity supplier for residential consumers, candidates for the Premiere of the Year category, with the success of convincing in a year over 9,000 households to give up the regulated supply contract, to change the supplier and enter in commercial relation with our company.
Thanks to experience in energy of Eva Energy team and granulating analyzes that substantiate business decisions, our company manages to add every month at least 1,000 new customers in the residential sector of electricity consumers.
We have built new approach models, of marketing and sales, in the energy supply segment for households, managing to reach in a year over 9,000 customers, with a growth speed of collaborators and energy consumers basis above expectations. Personalized services, the capacity to relate directly and honestly with our customers, and to intervene quickly are our main competitive advantages.
Forte Gaz GN
Forte Gaz GN – new supplier in the gas market
Lack of real competition, as well as the lack of transparency in the market, have promoted the need for the apparition of new suppliers in the field, such as Forte Gaz GN, which managed to capitalize the experience of employees and shareholders in a successful project.
The project was launched in August 2014, with actual start as of October 1st 2014, involved a capital of approximately EUR 0.5mln and 2 employees familiar with all the procedures specific to the field.
Forte Gaz GN imposed itself as a competitive gas supplier, as it managed to combine flexibility, dynamism and quality of services at a reasonable cost for all its customers.
Using centralized trading platforms to ensure correctness, transparency and visibility was considered a central pillar in the development strategy of the company.
Customers appreciated the seriousness and transparency in relation to the company, which enabled very rapid development of the customer base.
As each customer has specific needs, besides the direct ones, i.e. commercial advantages, Forte Gaz GN permanently tries to adapt to customer needs.
CEZ Group in Romania
CEZ Caravan: Energy for Profit
The energy sector is going through a fundamental change. The needs and requirements of consumers increase and diversify at the same pace as their life style. Suppliers must answer with quality services, adapted to needs and, more importantly, with transparency and responsibility. CEZ is more than a supplier, it is a long-term partner for its customers, supporting their plans and uniting people with their dreams. Therefore, we go before our customers and present the solutions available for an advantageous electricity contract and low consumption, on which they are the ones who hold control.
The CEO of CEZ Vânzare, together with its first line directors and 2 specialists in energy efficiency, have started in a caravan, in 10 cities of the country, where they tell stories to interested consumers on how they can get lower energy costs, what are the benefits and recommendations for a beneficial electricity supply contract, what energy efficiency solutions they have available. Presentations contain case studies in the country and abroad, concrete examples and a generous session of questions and answers.
Meetings take place in 10 large cities in the country: Constanţa, Galaţi, Braşov, Ploieşti, Iaşi, Bacău, Cluj, Sibiu, Timişoara, Arad, during October-November.
CEZ Group in Romania
CEZ E-mobility
CEZ Group in Romania expresses concern for the community and people by new approaches and, this year, it mounted electric charging stations for cars available for free for both employers and clients in Piteşti and Craiova. Also, it purchased electric and hybrid cars for employees. If the results of this pilot project are positive, the number of charging stations and electric cars will be extended.
An electric station was installed in Piteşti to be able to test and analyze the charging capacity, autonomy of cars, as well as the charging program. The supply capacity of the station in Piteşti is 22 kW for machines equipped with loading port compatible Type2 or 3.6 kW for vehicles equipped with Schuko loading port). Access to the charging station is free for all users of electric cars, the only one of this type in Piteşti.
Shortly, the two “green” cars purchased will be delivered: one fully electric and one hybrid, which will be available for CEZ employees in Craiova and Piteşti.
OPCOM SA
Implementing REMIT regulation
Implementing the provisions of Regulation (EU) no. 1227/2011 of the European Parliament and Council on the integrity and transparency of the wholesale energy market (REMIT) stems from the consolidation of the objective to create the single European energy market, ensuring its integrity and transparency for the benefit of end energy consumers and of other market participants.
In order to report data according to REMIT, OPCOM underwent a permitting process by ACER as reporting mechanism (RRM OPCOM” (Registered Reporting Mechanism), developing a technical solution and a legal framework aimed at keeping balance between the general objective of ensuring efficiency, effectiveness and reporting in conditions of security of trading data, and a competitive solution at European level, for the benefit of end consumers.
According to the Regulation (EU) no. 1227/2011 of the European Parliament and Council of October 25th 2011 on the integrity and transparency of the wholesale energy market, article 8, (1) market participants or a person or an authority of those referred to in paragraph (4) letters (b)-(f), acting on their behalf, provides the Agency with records of transactions, including trading orders, on the wholesale energy markets. Information reported shall include the precise identification of the wholesale energy products bought and sold, the price and quantity agreed, the dates and times of execution, the parties to the transaction and the beneficiaries of the transaction and any other relevant information.
Raffles Energy SRL
Pioneering “gas-to-power” solutions for marginal gas fields
Dorneşti and Lilieci are the first marginal gas fields in Romania which have been recovered and put into production in 2015 directly through the “gas-to-power” solution (“GTP”).
Gas accumulation in Dorneşti was discovered in 2007, and that in Lilieci – in 2009. At that time, there were no proper solutions to monetize gas by building adduction pipelines connected to Transgaz network and, therefore, the two discoveries were put in “conservation”.
Dorneşti field was put in experimental production by building an extremely efficient power plant, based on a staged modular design allowing the gradual reaching of a production rate of electricity of up to 2.5MW/h. The power plant is located near the production well (which contains gas with high calorific power, with over 99% methane, around 500 meters deep) and allows the direct conversion of gas into power, with connection to the national high-medium voltage power grid, located at a distance of around 2km.
Lilieci field represents a conventional gas accumulation (over 98% methane), consisting of a sequence in several reservoirs located at depths between 500 and 2,300 meters. Developing this accumulation through the GTP solution is based on a similar approach as Dorneşti, with a modular design allowing the extension of the generation capacity up to an electricity production rate of 4.5MW/h.
The total investment for the integrated “reservoir-to-wire” project (from costs for drilling and testing the wells, building the production facilities for gas and power modules, purchasing the power generator and to the execution of works to connect to the national energy system) is over EUR 5.5mln for the GTP Lilieci station, respectively EUR 2.5mln for Dorneşti GTP.
RIDGID – Emerson
Launching in Europe and the U.S. the crimping device designed and manufactured in Romania
RIDGID, a brand of Emerson Commercial & Residential Solutions, has entered the market of equipment for companies in the electrical field, launching in the second quarter of 2015 the lightest terminal crimping equipment for electrical cables in its class, the RE-130M model, designed and manufactured entirely in Europe.
Launching RIDGID RE-60 in Europe and Romania is part of an extensive project aiming at several equipment for processing electrical cables. This was the step preceding the launch of products developed and produced entirely in RIDGID Regional Center, located in Emerson Campus of Cluj-Napoca.
The project of developing the product was fully executed in Romania. The manual hydraulic model of 130kN force has been entirely developed by RIDGID engineers from Emerson Campus in Romania and is manufactured in the RIDGID Production Center in Cluj Napoca.
The benefits of this innovation are:
- saving money
- the investment is reduced significantly purchasing a single reliable equipment incorporating the latest technology
- saving storage space in the car, workshop or factory
- reducing the weight of equipment
To manufacture the hydraulic mechanism, the latest Swiss technology in Micro-hydraulics was used.
SAS Romania
The only fully functional analytics architecture for Smart Metering/Grid projects
From 2014, SAS Inc. has been promoting in Romania the only fully functional analytics architecture in the world, which covers all the needs and problems of a Smart Metering/Smart Grid project.
SAS program to for the awareness of the importance of analytics instruments – SAS functional analytics architecture for smart metering projects – what Big Data Analytics really means
Legal and regulatory difficulties, essential investment plans abandoned, failure to access and poor understanding of the new technologies mix, the lack of openness to the best global practices have convinced SAS Inc., global leader in advanced and predictive analysis solutions, to get involved actively in developing a better and more mature energy market, based on good practices at global level and success stories of 500 companies all over the world. These companies understood that the new technologies are the gate to successful business models in the energy market.
SAS has decided to seriously invest in disseminating knowledge, especially for energy efficiency, smart metering/smart grids and optimization.
Valeg Creative Solutions
High-efficiency on-site micro-cogeneration for site-own consumption
Valeg introduced in Romania the concept of “on-site cogeneration for site-own consumption”, by developing 5 projects totaling a number of 6 micro-cogeneration equipment, installed during 2013-2015, concept not used so far in Romania.
The concept consists of:
1. Sizing the micro-cogeneration solution simultaneously, based on electricity and heat consumption of the site, so that electricity and heat production does not exceed the consumption of electricity and heat of the location, except, maybe, in a transient state.
In order to meet this condition, equipment has the possibility of modulating power produced based on both thermal and electrical load or on a criterion resulting from the aggregated monitoring of electrical and thermal loads simultaneously.
2. Connecting the micro-cogeneration solution is done directly LV/MV facility of the location, immediately after the meter that measures electricity imported by the location from the network.
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Eight of the best experts in the Romanian energy industry joined to jury the candidate projects and people for the third edition of Energy Evolution Awards!
The third Energy Awards Gala organized by energynomics.ro brings something new compared with the editions in 2013 and 2014 – an exhibition dedicated to the Evolution in technologies and solutions for energy, hosted in the venue of this year’s Gala. Find out more details on 2015 Energy Awards.