#1 Power System Problem
Low utilization factor (UF)
Centralized information systems
Centralized information systems
Electric vehicles (EV), heat pumps and solar photovoltaic uses less energy in the year, but more at the peak. Reducing the peak is of paramount importance for the success of electrification, but how do we deploy energy management systems ?
Centralized information systems
Centralized information systems
Centralized information systems
Electricity network are now being operated with digital information systems, making energy information more available, but also harder to share for all. How can we use customer information for operation, while maintaining the privacy? How to meet municipal energy performance standards ?
Reliability risk
Centralized information systems
Reliability risk
Power system are vulnerable to the weather and are prone to failure more ofter, as we increase the load on the system. How can we electrify the economy, while managing more outages threats from climate change? How can we make the power system more reliable?
Alterum - Energy and emission management system
Corporate decarbonization
Alterum is a web application used for energy, GHG and energy cost performance assessments. The software includes the decarbonization plans of a corporation, a family and a community, each in a separate confidential workspace available to share or keep internally. The tool adapts the energy, electrification and GHG plans according to each organization compliance requirements.
The solution is deployed in more than 30 municipal governments, utilities, public and private organisations.
Nimbee - DER Optimization software
Nimbee was dedicated to optimizing the thermal and electric storage in microgrids. The tool also included 5-step workflow for electricity Load plans, Demand-Side Management (DSM) plans, Distributed Energy Resouces (DER) plans and Optimization.
The software development started in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and the first client was Public Services And Procurement Canada, in Gatineau (Ottawa region). We modelled the electricity network of 73 arctic communities and provides software and information for budgeting more than 400 M$ in fuel subsidies every year, and replacing with renewable energy projects.
SG2B Monitor - Residential Peak demand reduction
Intelligent load management
SG2B Monitor software aimed at managing residential load in canadian bungalow housing. In Collaboration with l'École Polytechnique, we instrumented 15 homes with AEON Heavy Duty Switches, Stelpro, Radio Thermostat, Schneider and Google thermosats to manage the peak demand, using Smart things Zigbee/Zwave routers (now Samsung).
With this deployment, we tested the capability of existing water heaters and baseboard thermostats controllers to be part of demand response program. We tested load detection, optimization and response with congestion information from NB Power 12 kV feeder.
The tool was deployed in homes in Quebec and in New Brunswick, Canada.
electrifier.io - Municipal energy planning
Community energy plans
The web application called electrifier.io aimed at automating the preparation of decarbonization and managing municipal programs. The objective was to include grid capacity information with GHG reduction plans to validate the peak demand addition on feeders connected in a municipality.
The team prepared community energy and emission information workflow, according to the PCP Protocol sponsored by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.
The tool was made available for all 5000 municipalities of Canada and was replaced by a more user-friendly interface and a better software engine, Alterum.
Patented load management technology
4 US/Canada patent
The company owns exclusive right of SOCPRA Science et génie S.E.C. patents applicable to peak system balancing and peak demand reduction.
This technology builds an overlay network over the Internet for energy information quota sharing of customer loads with innate storage potential, allowing grid operators, and facility managers to enable faster setpoints, to meet internal process, comfort and grid operational objective.
The technology was develop at the University of Sherbrooke, was tested at CanmetEnergy (Natural Resources Canada) and is now made available commercialy by SG2B inc.
Benefits
More renewable energy on the power system. Lower infrastructure costs for all.
Smart Grid To Business inc.
Founder
What we do
The Team
David Beauvais dedicated the last 23 years to power system modernization.
The Team
What we do
The Team
The company is owned by a group of passionnate engineers and programmers.
What we do
What we do
What we do
We solve energy management problems by engineering software solutions.
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