User Days

from January 21 to 22, 2021

The user days in January impressively demonstrated that TOP-Energy® is the proven standard solution for energy system optimization issues.

Whether in the beverage industry, in a chemical park, or at an airport – TOP-Energy® is successfully used in all areas where energy supply optimization is involved. The software is used at universities, in energy consulting, in municipalities, and in industrial and commercial enterprises. It is used for the analysis, planning, and operational optimization of energy systems, e.g., for production plants, neighborhoods and electric vehicle fleets. The high number of components and the associated broad spectrum of application areas of TOP-Energy® represent an outstanding unique selling point of the software.

The TOP-Energy® user days held online by GFaI and magis for an expert audience on January 21 and 22, 2021 were successful in every respect. The users had the opportunity to get to know the TOP-Energy® team and to enter into direct exchange with the developers. The great interest of the 81 participants in total was reflected not only in the consistently high number of listeners to the presentations, but also in the active participation in the discussions.

The energy issues of the future are becoming increasingly complex. GFaI and its partners dedicate important research and service projects to the development of adequate software. On the one hand, this involves the optimization of software through new mathematical methods and, on the other hand, the exploitation of further areas of application, taking into account current and future technical and social developments. The new functions of TOP-Energy® 3.0 for optimizing self-consumption and the generation of green hydrogen which were convincingly presented by GFaI scientists Marion Powilleit and Joram Wasserfall at the user days also point in this direction.

In their presentations, Simone Zimmermann from EnBW, Tobias Schoske from Viessmann Deutschland, Oliver Huber from the company for energy optimization theneo from Ruhpolding, and Kai Ewert from GTK mbH (Schwerin based company for regional participation and climate protection) illustrated the broad field of application of TOP-Energy®. It became clear that TOP-Energ® 3.0 brings many welcome simplifications in the areas of application shown.

Mathias Thanscheidt gave a presentation on the challenges of the energy transition for chemical parks of Currenta and the use of a TOP-Energy® web front end in the dispatching process of power plant dispatching. Dr. Stefan Kirschbaum showed how such a TOP-Energy® cockpit developed for real-time optimization works and what alternative solutions are possible for integrating TOP-Energy® into a customer-specific environment. Elias Siehler and Miriam Feil demonstrated a digital twin created with TOP-Energy® as a future design for the energy system of Stuttgart airport.

Presentation of TOP-Energy® 3.0

More than 80 experts from science, business, and industry were able to take their first look at the new TOP-Energy® generation which is scheduled for release this spring. The opportunity was provided by the online user days. The TOP-Energy® software is already in its third generation. After a comprehensive relaunch it was very well received by users and interested parties. In the user presentations, it became clear that TOP-Energy® 3.0 provides the right answers to urgent questions from practice. Therefore, especially the experienced users of TOP-Energy® are pleased about the new features which will make working with the software even easier and more pleasant in the future.

 

from: GFaI information 1/2021