- Pilot project involving 50 KiK stores
- Electricity-consumption data updated every quarter hour
- Will help optimize power consumption
In its market role as a metering point operator, Tengelmann Energie plans to monitor power consumption in 50 KiK stores and to transmit the relevant data to Tengelmann Energie's central database, to KiK (its customer) and to the relevant local network operator. The aim of the effort is to make current consumption data available at quarter-hour intervals. The project will also include the option of providing data from meters for sub-systems, such as light systems, air conditioning systems and heating systems. As of the end of January, Deutsche Telekom plans to have the basis in place for power management at the 50 selected KiK stores. In each KiK store, it will install the required electronic meters, communications units and data connections. Data communications between meters and the central database will take place via Deutsche Telekom's network. "This pilot project will give us a sharply focused overview of power consumption on the part of our customer, KiK. It will enable us to analyze the customer's requirements and help the customer optimize his power use", explains Guido Schick, managing director of Tengelmann Energie. "At present, for some 2,600 stores we can only record and compare annual consumption data. Since the stores' equipment and systems are highly standardized, the results obtained with the 50 pilot stores will be relevant, to a considerable extent, for the other stores", notes Michael Albring, project manager at Tengelmann Energie. "To reduce power consumption in a big way, one has to have near-real-time consumption data", explains Gabriele Riedmann de Trinidad, who is responsible for the Deutsche Telekom Group's "Energy" business area. "With such data, private households can reduce consumption by 10 to 15 percent - and commercial users can save more than 25 percent. What is more, each additional meter we install brings us closer to the "smart grid". And to integrate decentralized power generation, from renewable energies, within base-load power generation, we're going to need the smart grid." Deutsche Telekom plans to show its Tengelmann project at E-world energy & water 2011, at Stand 7-111 (Hall 7). Deutsche Telekom is offsetting all of the greenhouse-gas emissions produced by its stand, via additional investments in a climate-protection project in Brazil.
About Deutsche Telekom AG Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies, with over 129 million mobile customers, around 37 million fixed-network lines and approximately 16 million broadband lines (as of September 30, 2009). The Group provides fixed network, mobile communications, Internet and IPTV products and services for consumers and ICT solutions for business and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in around 50 countries and has over 250,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenue of EUR 64.6 billion in the 2009 financial year – more than half of it outside Germany (as of December 31, 2009).