A sustainable and healthy energy supply? It looks like this.

15 November 2023
Energy | Sustainability | Featured
We want to inspire our governments and clients by propagating and further spreading our smart city vision. What cutting-edge technologies are in the pipeline? What innovations are we already rolling out? Where are we bumping up against our limits as a society today?In this blog post, we would like to tell you more about future-proof energy supplies and how far we are in the much-discussed energy transition:

That is today's key question. Therefore, one of the main goals of APK Group at the moment is the facilitating the energy transition. After all, we are all in full switching to green electricity sources, which is good for our climate. The infrastructure sector must so also at a fast pace this evolution follow To make today's power grid ready for tomorrow's challenges. Or in some places rather to adapt yesterday's electricity grid to today's challenges. So to make the energy transition a reality, there is a lot of new futureproof infrastructure needed. APK Group thinks, creates, installs and maintains the energy supplies of the future.

Today, the question remains for many stakeholders in that energy transition: Can we already run a modern city entirely on renewable energy today? Is our society and more determined our current knowledge and capabilities in the infrastructure construction sector are ready for this? We seek an answer to this question by examining our own activities related to future-proof energy systems: 

The basic answer to rising power demand: grid reinforcement

The energy transition came about in the first place because we need to find an answer to the sharply rising demand for green energy. With APK Group, we therefore conduct grid reinforcement projects out so that all available energy can be distributed to enough places sufficiently quickly. We replace outdated transformers with newer, more powerful ones and install additional transformers where necessary. We do the same with the current power cables; we also need to gradually more capacity and power give to continue to meet power demand. Grid expansion should therefore ensure that everyone sufficient power available at all times has.

As a business, you should also check your connection to the electricity grid. Does it have enough capacity to bring in the amount of power you need? If your connection not yet strong enough is, APK Group can also help by providing the installation of a medium-voltage cabin. This is how we make companies' electric future plans possible. 

We don't let anything go to waste: Heat grids

We must not only expand our energy transmission systems, but also innovate. One of the basic principles for a more sustainable energy system is to let nothing go to waste and waste streams positive in at put where possible. This is how we arrive at the system of heat networks or 'district heating'. That is the concept of one central, green heating source instead of many individual heating systems. Among others based on waste heat from companies we create heat in one central location and then transport it via a underground network of insulated pipes to heat individual buildings. APK Group helps build that heat grid.

Distribution and balancing using Energy Management Systems

In addition to diversifying and greening our power sources, we also simply need to increasingly become more conscious and smarter consumers. That's why at APK Group we are also working on everything with load management deal with. Our engineers develop complete Energy management systems. When we upgrade our solar panels, our batteries and our charging infrastructure integrating all in a smart way, we are going to end up consuming less.