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• Cooperation with EWE for myEnergyCloud: More independence from the electricity market

• Complete solution with innogy: Manage your own green electricity more flexibly

• Energy storage in smart homes: Focus on connectivity

• Energy monitor from Smappee shows savings potential

Advantages on all sides: EWE electricity community and VARTA Storage

The energy industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation, innovative concepts are in demand and collaborations

are becoming increasingly important. The most recent example is the collaboration between VARTA Storage and the north German energy company EWE with EWE myEnergyCloud. Owners of private solar power systems in the electricity community can save their self-produced electricity like credits and retrieve it at any time.

Collaboration and connectivity: a must for the future of energy VARTA Storage has a growing network of partners, its most recent collaborations have been with EWE and innogy. VARTA Storage is focussing on the use and connectivity of energy storage systems in smart homes.

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Their photovoltaic system and the electricity storage system from VARTA Storage therefore make them independent of the electricity market. With EWE myEnergyCloud, specialist trade companies receive a service that gives them competitive advantages.

‘The collaboration between EWE and VARTA Storage is a double win-win situation. For example, the VARTA energy storage system in conjunction with EWE’s cloud solution makes customers even more energy self-sufficient, VARTA Storage is making its storage solution even more attractive, specialist trade companies are increasing their added value and EWE is strategically extending its customer base,’ explains Sebastian Jurczyk, Managing Director of EWE Vertrieb GmbH.

Complete solution with innogy

At Intersolar Europe, VARTA Storage presented its new collaboration with innogy.

The energy provider has launched a complete package consisting of twelve high-performance modules, the corresponding inverter and a VARTA energy storage system with a capacity of 3.3 kilowatt-hours.

The complete solution enables users to utilise most of their own solar power in the home. This reduces the power consumed from the grid and noticeably reduces electricity bills. The innogy energy manager enables electrical devices to be operated as often as possible with electricity from users’ own solar power systems. To achieve this, the energy manager analyses the domestic electricity consumption around the clock and checks location-based weather forecasts.

Also included in the complete package is the SolarCloud with a storage capacity of 1,000 kilowatt-hours for the first year. The unused solar power is automatically stored there and can be used at any time with little or no sunshine. The electricity volumes that customers draw from his SolarCloud come exclusively from renewables. This virtual power storage enables the electricity generated in summer to be also used in winter.

Connectivity is crucial for energy storage systems in smart homes

Smart homes in particular require intelligent end-devices that can communicate with

any other device. The energy storage units from VARTA Storage meet this demand. These can communicate with almost all components and systems used by the building services and energy technology. End users can decide themselves how the power provided by the PV system is used and control it intelligently.

‘For installers and end customers it is particularly important that the systems used throughout the home can be combined and extended. They need to be able to communicate with one another,’ says Gordon Clements, General Manager Residential Power & Energy at VARTA Storage GmbH. The Bavarian manufacturer is therefore offering with its energy storage units a system that is compatible with many different applications, and which allows customers to make their own choice.

Increase potential savings with the energy monitor from Smappee

To ensure that energy can be successfully saved, it makes sense to first of all record the consumption of the individual devices in the home. This is where the energy monitor from Smappee comes into play. Combined with VARTA’s energy storage units this provides enormous savings potential.

Smappee’s patented technology records the exact monthly and yearly consumption of individual devices. Behind the technology is NILM (Non-Intrusive Load

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Monitoring). With simple sensor terminals on the main power line, the Smappee energy monitor detects the household appliances and measures their power consumption. The smappee app shows which loads consume a particularly large amount of electricity at what time of the day. This information can then be specifically used to save electricity.

The VARTA product portfolio

Recently VARTA Storage has impressed German installers with its energy storage portfolio, comprising the products of VARTA pulse, VARTA element and VARTA one. This was the chief finding of the latest issue of the European PV Installer Monitor, the annual survey published by the German-based market and opinion research firm EuPD Research. VARTA Storage earned the seal of approval as Top

Brand PV Storage 2018 for its excellent brand awareness, recommendation rate and its distribution.

‘With the third award in a row as Top Brand PV we see the huge trust of the installers in the quality and reliability of our open energy storage systems and services,’ declared Gordon Clements. ‘We’re extremely pleased with the installers’ positive response to our brand and will continue to apply our 130 years of battery technology know-how to further optimize the safety, durability and profitability of our energy storage systems,’ continued Clements.

EuPD Research awards the Top Brand PV honour solely to leading manufacturers in the industry and, in addition to module and inverter manufacturers as well as wholesalers, has now bestowed it on an energy storage system manufacturer for the

third time. The Top Brand PV Storage seal of approval is awarded only to a few select vendors whose brands are rated by installers as superior to the competition.

Multi-stage safety concept

Safety, quality and reliability have the highest priority for VARTA Storage. Through intensive investment in research and development the long-standing company always strives to be one step ahead in regard to battery development knowhow. The multi-stage safety concept makes VARTA energy storage systems especially reliable. In the cell, in the cell pack, in the battery module and in the whole system different security mechanisms are in place. In total, 130 years of battery expertise cumulate in the product development of the energy storage systems.

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‘Safety, quality and reliability have the highest priority for VARTA Storage. Through intensive investment in research and development the long-standing company always strives to be one step ahead in regard to battery development knowhow.’