A single load peak can define the grid charges for an entire year.
What sounds absurd for private households and smaller businesses is reality for most industrial customers. The annual peak power — measured in a single 15-minute window — feeds directly into the demand charge. Go full throttle just once, and you pay for it for twelve months.
The truly annoying part: these peaks are rarely random. They arise when several loads start up at the same time — heat pump + wallbox fleet + production start at 7 in the morning. Largely predictable and often avoidable. But only if a system has the overview.
This is exactly where enmacs:FLEX comes in. Our overarching EMS can respond to emerging load peaks before they arise — and caps them through coordinated control of the battery, flexible loads and load shifting. A 250 kW peak becomes 180 kW. Every single peak makes the difference.
Peak shaving is not a nice-to-have feature. It is one of the most direct €-levers an EMS should use.