MVV Energie, Germany
Smart City Mannheim (moma) is one of several research projects set up under the German government funded programme ‘E-Energy’. The three phase project sees the nine consortium partners putting the power grid of the future to the test in Mannheim and Dresden. The key objectives of the project are to demonstrate how renewable energy can be optimally integrated into the grid as well as how the city can function as an energy store. In addition to PPC other partners in the project include MVV Energie AG and IBM.
The project, to date, has been highly successful with PPC’s Broadband Powerline (BPL) solution providing the communications infrastructure. Using BPL, the power grid is turned into an IP-based, real-time communications platform which connects all households, decentralised generators and measuring devices. A total of 3,000 households will be equipped with devices which will intelligently control household appliances and connect them to the smart grid. The encrypted data will be transported to the customer’s password protected web portal as well as to the utility MVV Energie. It demonstrates the BPL system’s capability to process large volumes of data for various purposes. The information is available to the customer at all times and at the same time the utility is able to produce invoices more regularly (e.g. monthly).
MVV Energie, a publicly listed municipal utility group, is one of Germany’s leading and most profitable energy companies. Outstanding features of MVV's group of companies are its balanced business portfolio, which includes electricity, district heating, gas, water, energy-related services and environmental energy, as well as the horizontal networking and integration of its shareholdings in local and regional operators with the same business fields. Click here to visit MVV's webpage
