OPENS – The Optimise Predict Energy Saver Platform

For large retailers such as LIDL, BWG Foods, Musgraves, etc who want to maximize energy savings from on-site Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and energy storage assets, O-PENS is an energy management tool that lowers the user’s energy costs and/or CO2 emissions. O-PENS is battery agnostic and optimises multiple RES assets in conjunction with multiple energy storage units to maximise ROI from the customers RES and storage assets. O-PENS will deliver a novel retrofittable energy management platform with a multi-objective or dual optimisation function ability – i.e. it is capable of simultaneously considering multiple RES (PV/Wind/Grid) and outputs (Grid/P2P/storage devices) to deliver an overall optimal schedule for each asset. O-PENS is designed to off-set peak load tariffs and supply energy at an optimal cost to commercial, agricultural and domestic end users. It is also designed to consider a real-time pricing (RTP) structure and to enable end users to engage with the I-SEM pricing mechanism.