Load management
Load management in the SpeicherCampus context: works ideally together with storage and charging management. Technically, the term is usually described as the control of electrical loads.
What does load management mean?
Load management actively controls loads to shape a site’s total demand: throttling charging points, staggering refrigeration compressors, shifting non-critical processes into low-load periods. While the storage system supplies energy, load management prevents peaks from arising in the first place.
Together they are stronger than either measure alone: load management lowers the peak height, the storage system shaves the rest — and the storage power can be sized smaller.
What matters in practice
- identify controllable loads (charging, cooling, heating, pumps)
- define priorities: what may be throttled, and when?
- a shared metering concept with the storage EMS (one grid-demand value)
- communication via open protocols such as Modbus or OCPP
Practical example
A car dealership with twelve charging points uses load management to cap charging power dynamically to the free grid connection capacity. The storage system covers the workshop peaks. Without the combination, the grid connection would have had to be doubled.
The SpeicherCampus perspective
SpeicherCampus plans storage and load management as one unit — the systems’ Modbus openness is a prerequisite for that, not an accessory.