GE selects Kuhse Energy Group as the world’s first Value Added Reseller for its MicroGrid Management solution

Effective July 15, 2023, General Electric and Kuhse Power Solutions GmbH, as part of the Kuhse Energy Group, have agreed on an intensive coope­ration in the distri­bution of the today’s techni­cally market-leading energy management system within the scope of the world’s first value added reseller contract for the GE-MicroGrid Management solution.

The partnership is designed for long-term coope­ration in sales, imple­men­tation, ongoing customer support and joint further develo­pment of the product.

Due to the incre­asing decen­tra­lization of power supply, both companies expect a strongly growing market in the area of indus­trial energy management systems and feel that they are ideally positioned for this with this partnership.

MicroGrid:

A MicroGrid is a local power network consisting of a large number of decen­tra­lized power generation plants, storage solutions and indus­trial as well as commercial consumers.

Such a MicroGrid can be operated by energy-intensive indus­trial consumers both in parallel with the public grid and in island mode.

For companies in the energy industry, it can also be part of the public grid.

MicroGrid parti­ci­pants include

• conven­tional power plants such as CCGT, CHP or steam generators
• renewable energy generation plants such as solar, geothermal and wind power plants
• storage facilities such as battery and thermal storage systems and fuel cells
• indus­trial and commercial energy consumers such as heat pumps or electro­lysers

With the ongoing decen­tra­lization of power generation, the MicroGrid Controller plays a crucial role in ensuring a reliable, efficient and ecolo­gical power supply. Through its diverse functions and coupling options to energy markets, it contri­butes to the support, stability and quality assurance of the grid.

The MicroGrid Controller pursues two equally important objec­tives in parallel:

• The main technical task of the MicroGrid Controller is to maintain the balance between power generation and power consumption in the MicroGrid while ensuring both grid stability and grid quality.
• Taking into account the environ­mental aspects (CO2, fuel reduction) and the economic aspects (fuel cost savings, CO2 emission trading, energy markets) by optimizing the decen­tra­lized energy flows.

The system consists of a local real-time controller for the secondary intel­ligent control of all MicroGrid parti­ci­pants as well as a cloud-based unit for data analysis, successive optimiza­tions and additive planning tasks.

For first technical infor­mation please refer to our flyer: