
While this will provide the power needed for their own use, it will also offer the possibility for buildings to sell excess power through the smart grid at times of high prices, thereby playing an important role in efficient energy management. Buildings will utilize wind generation, solar power, and Combined Heat and Power (CHP) generation equipment to produce energy on their own. Once cities implement smart grids, energy use in smart buildings will become supply driven.
Future Smart Building and Energy Management: Energy use in today's buildings is demand driven. At the Smart Trend Exhibition, Siemens will, via the latest digital technology applications, unveil a blueprint for smart living in the future. The rapid development of a variety of smart digital technologies will entirely upend today's industrial, operational, and management models. Together with the introduction of urban smart grids in the future, innovative AI technology in smart buildings will play a key role in energy management. The firm will also play a role in the implementation phase across project and change management.The Internet of Things, cloud computing, and big data are driving the development and application of digital technologies. Siemens Advanta, the management consulting business of Siemens, will lead Siemens’ more strategic and design work, including topics such as business case development, use case concepting, defining the process blueprint, prototyping and business-technology alignment. The contract has a budget of €113 million, although the consortium did claim in their winning proposal that they could deliver the work for less (reportedly: around €80 million). “This project, which is part of Tunisia’s energy transition ambition, will encourage better integration of renewable energy in the power generation system, boost the productivity of the power network, and help STEG lower its debts.” Meet the partnersįollowing a competitive tender process, Tunisia’s officials have selected the German-French consortium of Siemens, Efluid and Sagemcom to deliver the first phase of the project. Neila Nouira Gongi, Tunisia’s Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy, said that the project is one of the most strategic in the country’s energy landscape. The second phase (2026-2030) will then push for out across the most populous areas of Tunisia, including capital city Tunis. The first phase (2022-2025) will see the deployment of a smart grid network in a pilot region consisting of three areas: Sfax city and Kerkennah, Sousse city and Sidi Bouzid, Le Kram and Beja.
The programme is structured in two phases. Smart grids also allow for monitoring of asset quality, which enhances maintenance and repair operations. By collecting information on the state of the network, smart grids contribute to a better balance between production, distribution and consumption. Smart grids are power networks that use computer technology to adjust the flow of electricity between suppliers and consumers.
SMART GRIDS SIEMENS UPGRADE
Among the main components of the upgrade are: improving infrastructure assets, rolling out smart grids that help balance power supply with demand, and enhancing financial payment flows through a modern billing system. One of the key initiatives is the ‘Smart Grid’ project, which aims to create a better integration of renewable energy into the power network. The Tunisian Electricity and Gas Company (known as STEG) is responsible for the transmission and distribution of electricity and natural gas to all corners of the country.Īs part of the country’s plans to ramp up renewable energy (around 6% of national energy production is filled by renewable sources), a major roadmap was recently launched by the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy to modernise the power infrastructure and incentivise more renewable energy production and consumption. Siemens is one of the programme’s main partners, with subsidiary Siemens Advanta in the lead for the transformation consulting side of the mandate. The government of Tunisia has hired a consortium of external partners to support a major renewable energy transformation.