12 Apr 2024 Self-sufficiency!
Two years ago ADOX and FOTOIMPEX started an investment programm to become independant from the public grid and in the mid term CO2 neutral. We installed a combined heat and power plant (blue energy in the long term green running on H2), a giant hot water tank, a 60 kWh buffer battery and today a 70 kW solar power plant on the roof. When all components are wired up we can basically cut the factory off the public grid 🙂
In times when there is no sunshine we can run on the battery or the gas turbine kicks in. With the heat of the turbine we run the kettles and the general heating system.
The battery buffer is evening out the night-hours without sunshine.
Acording to our simulation we will be 80% independant with electricity over the spring-summer-fall period and achieve > 50% over the entire year.
Next to the environemental aspect this is ofcourse also helping us to control costs (energy prices got out of control in Germany).
Compared with the current electrical prices in Germany we will save more than 80% (the remaining 20% are the costs for the gas).
The setup was not cheap and we are somewhat pioneers. In the future the components hopefully become more affordable. We think this is the way to go foreward. The public grid does not have enough capacity for the transformation as it is planned by our politicians and we cannot see how they will change this in short time. If every factory does what we did industrial CO2 emissions can be substantually reduced in short time.